Main area: Professional Registration and Mental Health Experience
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 338-6946862-25
Site: Westlands, Town Hull
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
Due to promotion of the existing post-holder, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Westlands Inpatient team.
Our female mental health treatment unit team, who are well invested in cultural review and reform, is looking for an enthusiastic individual with acute mental health leadership experience to enhance and deliver the work being undertaken to optimise the Trust’s acute pathway.
This position requires an inspirational, innovative, and creative leader who can strengthen the management of ongoing developments and delivery of care within Westlands and the wider Inpatient Service, as part of the senior leadership team.
Westlands is an 18-bedded fast-paced mental health treatment unit and forms part of the acute treatment pathway within our service model. We have a wide range of patients with complex needs who require a period of inpatient treatment as part of their ongoing recovery from crisis.
Main duties of the job
The ability to influence others is crucial in the Team Leader position alongside the unit Clinical Effectiveness Lead.
A professional qualification with substantial post-registration experience is essential. You will be supported to develop within your role with support from the Service Manager and Modern Matron. You will have access to regular supervision, both individual and in group settings. The Trust offers a full training package and induction programme for those transferring into the organisation from elsewhere.
You will be working as part of a forward-thinking, highly developed Multi-Disciplinary Team with a range of other health professionals, and an experienced wider team who offer a supportive value-based working environment. You will be encouraged, through the various routes of training, supervision, peer support, and reflective practice as you further develop your career and potential.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East, and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
For further Information please contact Jenni Jordan (Service Manager) on 07816 331226 or email jenni.jordan@nhs.net
Person specification
Knowledge
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding Children.
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area.
* Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area.
* Knowledge of managing delegated budgets.
Experience
* Evidence of post-registration professional practice.
* Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
* A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held.
* Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
Qualifications
* Part III or 13 of NMC live register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post.
* Postgraduate or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice.
* Accredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Jessica Slingsby
Job title: Modern Matron - MH Division, Unplanned Care
Email address: jessica.slingsby@nhs.net
Additional information: For an informal visit to the unit please contact sarah.robinson50@nhs.net
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