Job overview
Are you a motivated and experienced mental health professional seeking a new challenge?
We have an opportunity in the City of Oxford for a Team Manager to lead and deliver an integrated Mental Health and Social Care pathway, specifically designed to meet the needs of adults with serious mental illness. If you are passionate about mental health services, with experience working on the wards and in the community, this role presents an opportunity for you to ensure the delivery of safe and therapeutic care for this population within the community.
In this position, you will collaborate with clinical leads to further develop an efficient and effective team dedicated to providing safe and compassionate services, grounded in evidence-based practices. Additionally, you will be responsible for effective budget management, as well as the recruitment and management of staff. If you possess strong leadership skills and thrive in a dynamic environment that offers variety and challenges, this could be the ideal position for you.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:
1. Work with the Service Manager to lead in the development of consistent standards across all AMHTs ensuring the effective delivery of high quality, affordable, and safe services.
2. Provide clear, visible leadership, and strategic vision to ensure every aspect of the user experience is delivered in a safe, efficient and evidence-based manner.
3. Work in partnership with primary care and the 3rd sector to develop clear and effective pathways for mental health.
4. Work in partnership with the inpatient wards to ensure that there is a clear pathway for patients and their families, delivering seamless transitions of care.
5. To lead and line manage an Adult Mental Health Team.
6. Support the Service Managers in the development, negotiation and performance monitoring of relevant service specifications.
7. Represent or deputise for the Service Managers where appropriate at Trusts or multi-agency forums.
8. Support the Service Manager working with staff, stakeholders, and commissioners to help develop and lead implementation of local & national initiatives, commissioning and Department of Health targets.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
9. Excellent opportunities for career progression
10. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
11. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
12. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
13. Competitive pension scheme
14. Lease car scheme
15. Cycle to work scheme
16. Employee Assistance Programme
17. Mental Health First Aiders
18. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
19. Experience of working in the community with people effected by serious mental illness
20. at least 5 years
Desirable criteria
21. leadership qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
22. Knowledge of interventions regarding people with serious mental illness
23. Knowledge of safeguarding
24. Understanding of the MHA and MCA in practice
Desirable criteria
25. Understanding of the HRA in practice
Skills
Essential criteria
26. Skill to build and retain workable relationships with staff and patients
27. Empower and retain staff to work to their best ability
Desirable criteria
28. Budgetary management
29. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
30. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
31. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
32. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
33. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
34. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
35. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
36. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing