Team Manager for Health and Social Care
Joint Emergency Team (Integrated Rapid Response Team)
Band 8A Permanent
37.5 hours per week
This is an integrated role working across both health and social care which is jointly funded by the Royal Borough of Greenwich and Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and is accountable to both organisations.
The Joint Emergency Team (JET) provides nursing, therapy, medical and social care crisis intervention, incorporating the 2-hour urgent community response (including the falls pick up service) and a virtual ward pathway supporting adults to remain in their home and avoid admission to hospital or care homes.
The team operates 365 days per year 08.00 to 20.30 receiving referrals from a range of health, social care professionals and triages, assesses, and delivers treatment and intervention to ensure the client / patient can remain safely in their own home.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to provide leadership and coordination of the team which includes the out of hour service of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) and will have a lead role in supporting the development and delivery of practice standards within the Urgent Community Response Service (UCR), the Falls Pick Up Service and the Virtual Ward. This will include operational leadership to the multidisciplinary team to ensure an integrated model of care is delivered.
The post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the team in relation to activity generated by referrals made to the MDT to ensure service outcomes and performance indicators are met.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality care within the community setting, working to ensure that effective processes are in place that enable team members to work proactively to manage from patient/resident crisis to promoting self-management and independence across the continuum of care.
Job responsibilities
* Provide management leadership and development to a multidisciplinary crisis intervention team which includes both health and social care practitioners.
* Provide leadership management and development of the RBG out of hours service.
* To ensure the team operates cohesively to deliver timely, comprehensive assessment, treatment and intervention preventing hospital attendance / admission or premature care home admission.
* Provide strong leadership, guidance, and supervision to foster positive and collaborative team culture that emphasises client / patient-centred care, continuous learning and professional growth.
* To provide operational management and leadership to a multi-disciplinary/inter-professional team across health and social care including deputising for both the Adult Social Care (Royal Borough of Greenwich) and Health Service (Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust) leads.
* To promote and deliver partnership working with senior managers and colleagues across health and social care, and deliver the out of hospital strategy in the borough necessary to deliver the health and social care priorities.
* To deliver joint health and social care internal and external performance measures and fulfil both local and national statutory reporting requirements.
* Be accountable and provide clear leadership to all Health and Social Care staff in the team and ensure that all staff understand and contribute to NHS and Social Care challenges and opportunities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Holds a current registration with HCPC NMC or Social Work Council
* Masters Degree in relevant speciality or demonstrate experience in a management position in the NHS or Social Care
Desirable
* Master degree in Leadership
Experience
Essential
* Have a minimum of 5 years at senior level in the NHS or Social Care demonstrating progressive responsibility in supervisory or management position
* Experience of working in a health and social care team in the community
* Demonstrates a good understanding of the safeguarding agenda including mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards
Skills
Essential
* Evidence of innovative practice and research
* Understanding of reflective practice and the principles behind its use
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Woolwich Centre
Wellington Street
London
SE186HQ
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