Are you a band 6 or 7 with experience in mental health and managing people? The Hull Integrated older people's community mental health team are seeking a driven and enthusiastic band 7 team leader to work with our clinical lead and support the service.
You will be a vital member of the organisation providing management and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based intervention and practice. You will be able to demonstrate advanced clinical skills, with a passion to drive change and development towards outstanding patient care, in partnership with experts by experience, carers, staff, managers, and external agencies.
Applicants will have sound knowledge and experience of contemporary interventions used to enable recovery across a wide range of mental illness, including people living with dementia. Applicants will be able to articulate the drivers for change whilst working within local and national policy.
Main duties of the job
As a team manager, you will have responsibility for ensuring services are meeting key performance indicators as well as leadership and development through supervision of teams. You will work alongside the clinical lead for the team and receive support from the operational service manager.
The ability to support teams through change will be vital to this role, and you will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. You will be required to chair complex meetings and discussions and have managerial responsibility for networking locally and nationally to share learning and development with colleagues.
You will receive training in completing patient safety investigations and complaints to ensure confidence and learning within the service. Investigations will be supported by operational service managers and clinical leads.
You will have responsibility for service outcomes and statistics and be able to demonstrate the ability to plan, implement, and review service improvement where this is required.
About us
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.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Job responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* 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.
* Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service areas within community health services, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding Adults.
* Accredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level.
* Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area.
* Knowledge of managing delegated budgets.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held.
* Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
* Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.
* Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multiprofessional and multi-agency partnerships.
Skills and competencies
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and at all levels of staff/managers in the organisation.
* Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change.
* Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
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.
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