Community Team Leader - Perinatal Mental Health
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinician into a Team Leader's role. The post holder will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.
The post holder will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.
You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.
There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of services users at the centre of care delivery. The post holder will carry out clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the relevant codes of Professional Conduct. The post holder will have a person-centred approach to practice.
Main duties of the job
1. Management of care and practice
2. Management of Financial and Material Resources
3. Management of Clinical Standards
4. Management of Human Resources
5. Management of Information and Communication
6. Management of the Environment
Job responsibilities
Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group. To provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co-ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload. Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff. All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines. Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources. Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies. Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals independence. Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting Improving Working Lives within the confines of a safe service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse-Mental Health or other professional registration such as Occupational Therapy & Social Work
* Mentorship Course (or other relevant teaching/assessment course)
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
* Significant experience of managing clinical practice in a mental health service
* Experience of implementing and monitoring standards of care
* Experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of working with pregnant and postnatal women and of using a variety of models and approaches to care
* Experience of implementing significant changes in working practices
Knowledge and Skills
* Specialist clinical knowledge relevant to the service, including evidence based practice.
* Understanding of the role and function of other organisations providing services to people with mental ill-health.
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.
Salary
£54,320 to £60,981 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
334-NUR-6826006-LF
Job locations
Lambeth Perinatal Mental Health Team
Mary Sheriden Centre for Child Health, Wooden Spoon House, 5 Dugard Way
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