Integrated Community Services Mental Health (Team) Leader
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Bridgend Community Resource Team (CRT) as an Integrated Community Services Mental Health (Team) Leader. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse interested in the growing sector of intermediate community care to join our team.
The successful candidate will be a motivated, enthusiastic, professional Nurse who can demonstrate both sound clinical, leadership and management skills but who is also creative and has vision to develop this part of the service forward. They need to be a good team player and also have the ability to understand and support the wider strategic plans for the growth and development of Integrated services.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a team of staff providing a high quality service within the resources available within the Community Resource Team and Network Clusters, and specifically to deliver on the following key areas:
2. Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
3. Actively promote the development of evidence based practice.
4. Foster robust working relationships with all partners in particular Local Authority and Primary and Community Care Services.
5. To carry a clinical caseload and take a lead on management of mental health care encountered by colleagues in the Community Resource Team and support staff in management of such cases.
6. To respond as required to serious untoward incidents, complaints and communications regarding team issues providing feedback to the team to ensure lessons learned are shared and inform practice development.
7. Evolve and develop existing and new pathways of care for patients with Mental Health care needs in the ever changing Integrated Community Service Sector.
About Us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job Responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.
Full details of this Job Description including Personal Specification can be found in the attached supporting documentation which supports this Integrated Community Services Mental Health (Team) Leader vacancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Registered Mental Health Nurse.
* Evidence of specialist training, development of knowledge to PGD level equivalency.
* Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice.
* Sound working knowledge of the legal and policy framework underpinning mental health provision e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, National Service Frameworks, Mental Health Measures.
* Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults.
Experience
* Evidence of achievement in clinical practice within the area of speciality e.g. adult mental health, older person's mental health.
* Experience of working within a multi-agency community mental health setting.
* Ward/Team management experience.
* Teaching experience.
Skills and Attributes
* Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards achieving this level.
* Organisational ability and time management skills.
* Clinical assessment and formulation skills.
* People management and leadership skills.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Ability to present information clearly.
* IT/Keyboard skills including word processing, email, intranet and internet, power point for communication, correspondence, clinical reports, teaching preparation, clinical literature searches.
Values and Other Role Requirements
* Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision.
* Physical dexterity to undertake routine physical examination of patients.
* Able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.
* Ability to display care, compassion and understanding to patient group.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to travel between sites/locations in a timely manner.
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.
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