We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with the appropriate professional body registration.
* To possess specialist knowledge across a range of procedures underpinned by theory.
* Masters level qualification or equivalent short courses and/or experience in relevant area.
* A recognised management qualification e.g. MBA, DMS or equivalent management experience and training.
* Teaching qualification.
Knowledge & Expertise
* To possess specialist knowledge across a range of relevant procedures underpinned by theory.
* Knowledge of social and care health legislation and ability to apply knowledge appropriately.
* Knowledge on the delivery of a clinical, technical or social care service.
* Knowledge of the recording of service users information.
* Experience of developing specialist programmes of care/care packages.
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
* Knowledge of undertaking surveys or audits.
* Knowledge of undertaking equipment testing and adaptation.
* Experience of regularly undertaking research and development activity and clinical trials.
Experience
* Experience of managing a multi-disciplinary team or service.
* At least 2 years experience at band 6 or equivalent.
* Experience of planning and organising complex activities or programmes requiring formulation and adjustment.
* Experience of the direct delivery of a clinical, technical or social care service.
* Experience of developing specialist programmes of care/care packages.
* Experience of proposing policy or service changes which impacts beyond own area.
* Responsibility for policies and the impact on other community and voluntary services.
* Experience of being an authorised signatory and holding a delegated budget.
* Experience of day-to-day management in allocating, placing and supervising staff or students.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Natalie Griffith Job title: Head of Clinical Services Email address: natalie.griffith1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07775537247 Additional information: If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.
Giving you time to care, space to think and opportunity to grow
We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
We 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 services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers and families. The Trust has over 14,500 members and employs more than 4,000 staff across 62 sites, serving a population of over one million people and highly specialist services for two million people.
At CWP, we believe in giving our staff the time to care, the space to think and the opportunity to grow.
With vacancies across a range of professions, wherever you’re at in your career journey, you’ll find something to suit you. So why not join our team today?
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