Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
The Offending Behaviour Intervention Service (OBIS) is a function of the Specialist Learning Disability Service in Hertfordshire. Since its inception in 2015, OBIS has grown from strength to strength, gaining both local and national recognition. OBIS supports service users with a learning disability and offending behaviour, with an ongoing high risk of harm across Hertfordshire. The aims of the service include reduced recidivism and contact with the Criminal Justice System, reduction in hospital admissions, and increased quality of life. Referrals are made to OBIS through the Specialist Learning Disability Service.
We now have a vacancy for the Team Leader post in the team. This post is pivotal to the daily functioning of OBIS, providing coordination of the clinical and management needs of the staff working within the team.
The successful applicant will be highly motivated and enthusiastic with a passion for their vocation working with people with learning disabilities and forensic needs. They will enjoy participating in the multi-disciplinary formulation approach, to establish the needs of individuals. We work in partnership with our service users, their carers, and other professional groups, to effectively manage dynamic risk factors, support service users' growth in their goals for their lives, and participate in delivering community-based treatment interventions.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a high-quality service developed using a cooperative approach with service users, families, paid carers, and SLDS staff to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service needs. The post holder will have oversight, responsibility, and accountability for the provision and management of high-quality care and the treatment of service users.
The role will provide effective leadership to ensure the staff teams receive appropriate management supervision and support while ensuring professional/clinical supervision is in place to meet agreed professional development plans. Furthermore, the post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining team systems and processes for the effective operation of the team, including key performance indicators, outcome measurements, audits, research, and OBIS annual reporting.
The post holder will be a RNLD or RNM with experience of working in community assessment & treatment services for people with learning disabilities. The post holder will have specialist knowledge and skills in the assessment and treatment of offenders with learning disabilities. They will be responsible for the operational management of a small MDT and will hold a caseload of offenders with learning disabilities in the community across Hertfordshire.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provides health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job responsibilities
* To plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of a health and social care assessment, care management, and treatment service to service users within the designated community learning disability service area, including overseeing referrals and ensuring that there is an even and appropriate distribution of work across the team, based on the experience of team members.
* To oversee referrals and the allocation of service users to workers, ensuring that caseloads are monitored and managed.
* To ensure that there are adequate staff numbers organised appropriately around service user needs and to incorporate this into the rota.
* To ensure that risks relating to service users, unmet needs, and the work environment are assessed and managed appropriately, ensuring that all team members know and understand their role in risk management.
* To provide management and clinical supervision to the team.
* To implement and monitor relevant operational policies and protocols, team systems, and processes for the effective operation of the team.
* To ensure quality care standards and procedures which support the aims of Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
* To monitor the service caseload ensuring that the team's activities are targeted to clients/patients, fulfilling the agreed objectives.
* To ensure the continued professional development of all team members through annual individual performance reviews.
* To maintain the Team Leader's own professional registration and development.
* In collaboration with the Service Manager, to undertake the timely recruitment selection, appointment, and induction of team members.
* To effectively manage all aspects of the team's time including ensuring adequate cover/Duty Rota, Annual Leave requests via the Employee online system.
* To monitor and manage, in conjunction with the Services Manager, all staff sickness and absence.
* To act for or on behalf of the Service Manager as required from time to time in accordance with local agreements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nursing Degree
Experience
* Experience in a management position.
* In-depth knowledge of forensic services.
* Knowledge and experience of working with statutory agencies.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Community Learning Disability team post experience.
* Participation in professional networks.
* Budgetary management experience.
* Management of service change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £48,270 to £54,931 a year Inc HCAS, per annum pro rata.
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