Please note this is not a Bath & North East Somerset Council Vacancy.
Main area
Older Adults Community Mental Health Team
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
342-BNS019-0325
Site
Bath NHS house
Town
Bath
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
Would you like to lead a friendly, supportive team who are passionate about improving the lives of service users experiencing organic and functional mental health conditions, and their families?
This is an exciting position to work as the Team Manager of the BaNES Older Adults Community Mental health team, which is an integrated service consisting of both health and local authority staff. The Older Adults service offers holistic assessment and intervention, covering pathways across; Access, Care Home liaison, and Secondary mental health.
We are seeking a motivated, and passionate individual with experience of working with Older Adults with both functional and organic illnesses. The interested party will be required to provide real time performance management, visible and accessible leadership and guidance to staff in the team. They will be required to have an oversight of quality improvement and change management which remain core service priorities at this present time. They will also strive to take a collaborative approach across the service, as well as providing clear direction and harnessing the strengths of others. The individual will strive to hold AWP core values at the centre of their leadership and encourage those within their line of management to strive for gold standard care.
Our core values are Passion, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 7 Team Manager, to support the team through a period of change linked with national changes in line with CMHF. The post holder will manage, direct and lead a person centred, multi-disciplinary integrated team in a community mental health setting, Trust and national service models for the provision of mental health care in line with defined practice within the Strategic Business Unit, and to evidence this through defined performance measures.
You will support your colleagues in a managerial capacity to deliver evidenced based, patient centred, recovery focussed care.
You will manage the BaNES Older Adults CMHT Team to deliver high quality interventions across the locality. You will support the flow of service users who are receiving treatment for a wide range of mental health presentations in the community. You will also work closely with our inpatient units, intensive teams and third sector colleagues.
The post holder would require excellent organisation, managerial and communication skills. If you are wishing to develop and enhance your skills in a very central and crucial role, please get in touch.
This is a Monday-Friday 9-5pm role.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Under the direction of the Service Manager to be responsible for leading and managing a modern, efficient mental health community service for a defined population in accordance with commissioned services.
2. With the support of the Senior Practitioner and/or the medical consultant to lead and manage the delivery of high quality effective health and social care interventions which lead to positive outcomes for service users and carers.
3. To lead by example, motivating and empowering others and promoting positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between all services involved in the care process.
4. To line manage all staff within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective processes where this is delegated.
5. To proactively work towards continuous service improvement by positively assisting in the planning and development of services. This could include participating in the design and introduction of a new service, communicating effectively with staff about proposed changes and gaining commitment for change.
6. To manage the health and social care budgets, authorising and controlling spending to ensure the best use of resources within agreed policy and financial regulations.
7. To supervise and authorise decision making on issues requiring statutory intervention including all aspects of initial investigations and necessary follow-up action.
8. To maintain an awareness of complex cases and projects for which allocated staff are responsible and ensure the service manager is appropriately informed regarding cases of particular risk or concern. This role does not include carrying a caseload.
9. To be responsible for the effective implementation of ‘Your Team, Your conversation, Your Plan’ within the team, including the effective management of workload.
10. To be responsible for the effective and accurate use of care clustering including the use of the Cluster Allocation Support Tool as required by the Trust.
11. To be responsible for the implementation and review of processes that ensure safe and effective transfer/discharge/step up/step down of service users to and from the team.
12. To ensure that an effective caseload management system is used to manage access to care and treatment, that capacity is managed effectively, and every service user is allocated a Care Co-ordinator (including cover arrangements when a care co-ordinator is absent and that this is effectively communicated to the Service user and their carers).
13. To manage the performance of all designated care provided by registered and un-registered professionals within the team, in line with the requirements of ‘Your Team, Your conversation, Your plan’ so as to ensure that consistent clinical and quality standards are maintained.
14. To ensure close working relationships and protocols with other internal and external services, encouraging their involvement in the planning and provision of the care plan, through effective liaison roles between Trust services and the commissioners.
15. To ensure appropriate compliance with Trust and Local Authority policies in relation to people management activities. These include recruitment and selection activity, effective sickness and attendance management and the application of standards in relation to conduct and performance at work as well as undertaking regular practice and management supervision.
16. To be responsible for ensuring ongoing completion of staff appraisals, setting and reviewing of work objectives including linking to KSF and any other council process.
17. To provide and ensure an effective learning environment for student placements across all professions.
18. To maintain a skill mix within the team which provides effective agreed services which can respond to statutory requirements, in line with relevant professional guidance and norms established by the Trust.
19. To manage the performance of the team as measured by key performance indicators defined nationally and locally, and set out in the SBU Balanced Scorecard and the council national client led data set.
20. To undertake investigations into complaints from service users and carers, untoward incidents and staffing matters, preparing reports as needed and working in partnership with others to meet required deadlines.
21. To be responsible for ensuring health and safety and other relevant risk assessments are undertaken, delegating responsibility as appropriate. This includes infection control.
22. To ensure appropriate systems are in place at team level to engage in integrated governance activity.
23. To engage with and contribute to relevant SBU and corporate management and governance forums.
24. To ensure the complete and accurate recording of all clinical and performance data on relevant paper and electronic systems (eg Rio, MHIS, CAST, LAS).
25. To ensure that case records and data are collected within approved policies and that data held on computer systems are accurate, so as to enable planning and monitoring of services.
26. To be responsible for ensuring compliance with defined quality standards such as CQC, CNST and Standards for Better Health, identifying responsibility within the team for key roles including but not limited to; infection control, Mental Capacity Act, Care Act, Mental Health Act Safe Guarding, Rare Dementia diagnosis, Dual diagnosis and emergency planning.
27. To be responsible for maintaining up to date evidence of quality and safety outcomes and providing these as required for inspection.
28. Dependant on the team location, to ensure relevant contributions are made by the team to the effective management of Trust and Council estates and facilities.
29. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for the development of others, both practitioners, and those in training by making use of and providing, effective feedback, coaching and appraisal.
Person specification
Professional Registration and training
Essential criteria
* Registered as a mental health practitioner (nurse, OT, social worker) with professional qualifications in a relevant discipline. For nurses RMN ( parts 3 or 13 of NMC register)
Desirable criteria
* Formal management qualifications or experience in a leadership role
* Experience managing a community mental health service
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant post-qualifying clinical experience obtained in a variety of settings, at band 6 or higher level
* Significant supervisory experience with clear evidence of effective people management skills including clinical supervision, sickness management, performance, conduct issues
* Experience of motivating and engaging others in challenging situations to maintain progress towards goals
* Experience of working within an integrated Health and Local Authority service
Desirable criteria
* Significant experience of working within an Older Adults Mental health service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Able to articulate an advanced and detailed understanding of the relevant legal frameworks/legislation including CPA process, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Safeguarding, in order to lead and manage others
* Awareness of CMHF changes being implemented and the impact this will have on CMHT provision
Desirable criteria
* Awareness of Organic based diagnosis, treatment options and assessment tools used within this pathway
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities, we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Applicant requirements
-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.
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