Team Leader - Initial Response Service - The Bay
Band 7
Main area: Mental Health - Community
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-BAY711-EB-C
Site: East Barns Town, Lancaster
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
Job Overview
We are excited to be delivering our Initial Response Service (IRS). This service provides a front door to all of our mental health services within the Bay providing a 24/7 call handling, triage, planned care and crisis response function.
You will work closely with other team leaders in your locality and support the Service Manager in ensuring service users receive high quality interventions.
The post will be within the Bay locality, working from our new IRS hub supporting our urgent care pathway. You will be responsible for an established team of practitioners, senior/call handlers and admin staff, including the operational day-to-day running of the team.
This role is key to the new service providing a responsive single point of access for urgent and routine requests for help, including signposting to relevant services within and outside of LSCFT.
The successful candidate will be a registered mental health professional, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker. The service will operate 24/7 and candidates will be able to negotiate shift patterns to fit in with their home and personal needs.
If you require any further information please contact us on the details provided.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Embrace change and have a positive manner to support team members through change, providing strong leadership.
2. Provide clinical leadership and first line management for a community-based mental health team in a designated geographical locality.
3. Work with senior clinicians and have responsibility for the delivery of a high-quality and high-performing team to a defined population.
4. Ensure that staff in the team have opportunities for continuing professional development, providing best practice and meeting the requirements of registering bodies.
5. Drive improvements in standards of clinical practice and patient care in line with the NHS modernisation and Public Health agendas.
6. Provide direct clinical care to patients.
7. Work with senior clinicians to actively lead in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement and performance management agenda within an identified locality team.
Working for Our Organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Must hold a relevant professional qualification (RMN, SW, OT).
* Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma or management qualification.
* Completion of, or working towards, management or Leadership Training.
Knowledge
* Awareness of the Urgent Care Pathway principles and practice.
* Knowledge of Assessment, Implementation, Monitoring and Review (including risk assessments).
* Demonstrate awareness of reflective and evidenced based practice (especially in relation to those suffering with a severe and enduring mental illness).
Experience
* Prioritising duties and tasks.
* Ability to work independently and as a Team Member.
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