Job summary
Employer heading
Deputy Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The City CMHT at The Greenfield Centre are looking to recruit a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader.
The successful applicant will:
- Support the Team Leader/Manager in the day to day running of the community mental health team, offering support and advice to the wider team.
- Work as part of the leadership team within the adult community mental health team under direct/indirect supervision of the team leader/manager.
- Act as care co-ordinator for a specific group of patients and provide care under the supervision of the CMHT Team Leader.
- Take part in multi- disciplinary triage meetings reviewing referrals received to the team.
- Complete initial needs assessments with newly referred patients and offer oversight and guidance to core team members.
Main duties of the job
To act as practitioner nurse/care co-ordinator for an identified group of patients within the overall community team caseload. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate.
To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients. To ensure the client has a signed copy of their agreed care plan.
To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CMHT Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CMHT Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.
To administer and manage medicines according to policy and local protocol. To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To have responsibility for the delivery of care to a group of patients within the community setting under the direction of the CMHT Manager and ensuring that clinical need and workload is prioritised effectively and that resources are utilised effectively. Reaching decisions in conjunction with the CMHT Manager based upon knowledge of services and client group, assessment of level of risk and available resources. Delivering clinical interventions and discharging patients according to agreed treatment pattern and discussing any deviations from this with the CMHT Manager.
To provide supervision and support to junior staff and report any issues or concerns to the CMHT Manager.
Act as Change Agent; develop practice through evidence/action research. Management of all aspects of the change process, ensuring that significant others are fully engaged and that positive change is reviewed, evaluated and communicated both within the immediate team and more widely within the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A qualified/registered mental health Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse/LD Nurse, Social Worker, OT)
- Experience in Adult Mental Health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
- Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
- Understanding of psychosocial interventions
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Thomas
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
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