Job overview
Are you an Occupational Therapist (OT), Social Worker (SW), or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) seeking a new challenge?
We have the perfect role for you as a Deputy Team Manager in the Chiltern West Adult Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). Become an integral part of our experienced and dedicated leadership team, providing exceptional clinical and managerial guidance to the team. Collaborate with a dynamic group of managers and Consultant Psychiatrists to create a supportive and empowering environment for the wider team.
Join us in shaping the future of mental health care and making a positive impact in our community.
Why Choose Us?
1. Be part of an experienced and committed leadership team.
2. Work in a dynamic and supportive environment.
3. Make a difference in the lives of individuals with mental health challenges
Ready to take the next step in your career?
Main duties of the job
4. Undertake clinical and operational responsibilities within the Adult Mental Health Team, using Trac to document activities and manage caseloads.
5. Assist in managing and developing the team, including recruiting staff and implementing services, ensuring team members are trained to use Trac.
6. Contribute to the development and implementation of a performance management system, using Trac to monitor performance and generate reports.
7. Line manage, supervise, and appraise key workers, ensuring their professional development is maintained and activities are tracked in Trac.
8. Ensure effective joint working with statutory and voluntary agencies, using Trac to coordinate interagency projects and ensure responsive service delivery.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
The ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust is essential for this role.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”.
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
9. Excellent opportunities for career progression
10. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
11. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
12. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
13. Competitive pension scheme
14. Lease car scheme
15. Cycle to work scheme
16. Employee Assistance Programme
17. Mental Health First Aiders
18. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
19. Mental health experience
20. Leadership and management experience
Desirable criteria
21. Research experience
22. Report writing
23. Experience of undertaking complaint or incident investigations
Qualifications
Essential criteria
24. SW, Mental Health Nurse or OT qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
25. Community mental health framework
26. Severe and enduring mental health need
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
27. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
28. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
29. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
30. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
31. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
32. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
33. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
34. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing