Main area: Mental Health, Operational Lead, Urgent Care
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 301-JC-24-6833170
Employer: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Haywood Lodge
Town: Stafford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/01/2025 23:59
Operational Lead - Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you aspiring to be or are you currently an Operational Lead looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals? If so, you're in luck. Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team in West Staffordshire, based at St Georges Hospital in Stafford.
We are an award-winning team and have been ranked by HSJ awards as top in the Midlands for Mental Health, Learning and Development and Community Trusts as Best Place to work. When you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential.
Main duties of the job
1. You will carry day to day responsibility for the operational management and delivery of services within the multidisciplinary team.
2. You will be responsible for the management of staff within the team, leadership, the delivery and delegation of management supervision and ensuring appropriate clinical / professional supervision takes place as per Trust policy and procedure.
3. You will be responsible for the Operational Management of the CRHT West team, exercising effectiveness and flexible budget control to stay within budgetary limits in conjunction with locality manager.
4. Work collaboratively with the Service Manager and team clinical leads in the planning, re-shaping and delivery of the service.
5. Responsible for the development and delivery of the Crisis Alternative pathways.
6. You will engage in and support the development of policies, procedures and working practices within the team, ensuring implementation, monitoring, evaluation and compliance with all policies and procedures in area of responsibility.
7. Day to day line management responsibility for staff working within the Team including management of sickness, performance, recruitment and appraisals.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking to recruit a skilled, dynamic and motivated individual, who will have day to day responsibility for the operational leadership of this multidisciplinary team. You will work alongside the collective leadership to ensure that a high quality of service is delivered within this clinical area, and that the team feels well led.
You will offer experienced, visible leadership, form effective working relationships with colleagues and professional leads both internal and external to the team, and act as an excellent role model. The successful candidate will have a clear role in reviewing and maintaining operational standards, performance and management aspects.
Person specification
* Post-registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post graduate diploma level
* Evidence of clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing (level 3 degree equivalent or above)
Experience
* Experience of effectively initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating operational processes.
* Demonstrable experience in performance management
* Experience in the direct line management of health or social care staff
* Significant demonstrable post qualification experience at senior level working in a mental health / specialist inpatient setting.
* Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams
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: Shelley Evans
Job title: Service Lead for MH Urgent Care Services
Email address: shelley.evans@mpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07805817442
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