Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require.
Job overview
Clinical Team Leader - Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team
Are you confident in taking the lead when faced with issues?
Do you work well with people and teams?
Have you got experience of leadership in a mental health environment?
Do you have the skills to grow and maintain a confident team, with positive values and standards that strive for the best patient centred care?
If you have said yes to these questions, we have an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your career as the Clinical Team Leader for the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds.
As a Clinical Team Leader you will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development to ensure the effective implementation and sustained delivery of mental health services.
You will be responsible for management of day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising within the service. In addition, you will also be responsible for the operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for their clinical / managerial supervision, as well as providing professional governance and leadership.
You will maintain compliance with key performance indicators and develop any Quality Improvement initiatives that could improve outcomes for our services and its users.
Main duties of the job
Leadership
* Provide advice and leadership to staff, treatment, therapy and risk assessment and management.
* Ensure any learning is embedded and sustained in the Team.
Clinical
* Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures contributing to policy development via Governance processes, particularly in relation to clinical care.
* Demonstrate a sound knowledge of current legislation and policy that underpins mental healthcare delivery.
* Participate in clinical audit, QA and clinical governance.
* Lead the development of training to deliver high quality care.
Communication
* Be able to communicate with people in a way which is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
* Work effectively in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team, working across different settings as required.
* Protect and maintain the confidential nature of the work at all times, both in written and verbal form.
Quality
* Act consistently with legislation, policies, procedures and other quality approaches.
* Maintain expert practice through further study, research, clinical practice and personal development.
* Participate in supervision for both self and others.
* Develop a culture that improves quality and take the appropriate action when there are quality issues.
Equality and Diversity
* Support and promote equality and value diversity.
* Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
* Participate in Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
* NHS pension
* a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* staff physio service
* NHS discounts and many more
To work within our Trusts values and behaviours - Positively, Respectfully, Together to ensure that we work to ensure compassionate and high quality care to all in our service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
* Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management
Desirable criteria
* Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Effective analytical decision-making skills.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again. #J-18808-Ljbffr