We are currently seeking to recruit a Band 7 Team Manager for the East Complex Needs Team.
The Complex Needs Team supports people who have a diagnosis of, or suspected diagnosis of Personality Disorder. The team offers NICE approved interventions such as DBT, Structured Clinical Management, and MBT. This is an exciting time to join this ever-evolving service. As team manager, you will have a vital role in embedding the new personality disorder pathway within our services and being a key point of contact and consultation for teams across the locality.
There are additional opportunities to improve access for this client group via working collaboratively with different agencies, including the third sector, and contribute to developing innovative digital platforms.
You will have the opportunity to deliver psychologically informed interventions to a small group of people alongside your managerial responsibilities. Full training will be provided for the successful applicant.
To manage, lead, and be accountable for the provision of high-quality effective leadership and management of the Adult Complex Needs Service (East) and ensure an optimum level of safe and effective patient care within budgetary resources.
Develop the team with a multidisciplinary approach and using developed managerial and leadership skills to promote excellent working practice, promoting the rights of service users in line with national and regional strategies.
Please be aware that our job descriptions are standardised and may not answer all your queries, so please give us a ring or arrange to come and meet us to find out more.
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.
We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.
Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.
As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation, and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcomes applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
We also offer up to three weeks’ induction, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you hit the ground running with CWP.
Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Griffith Job title: Head of Clinical Services Email address: natalie.griffith1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07775537247
If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100
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* Mid-Senior level
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* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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