This role is to provide and support the team with clinical expertise and to develop a service to meet the needs of the older adult population in the Grantham locality.
As part of a connected division, the team maintains excellent communication with the wider OA CMHT’s across Lincolnshire, but also with the wider division including inpatients and our home treatment teams. We are seeking a leader who preferably has a mental health nursing qualification; however, other healthcare professional registrants will be considered. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the experience required to support this role and have an understanding of the agendas relating to mental health care needs of the older person, both for the mental health and memory pathways within the service, and a focus on the safe management of waiting lists.
You will have experience at a senior level, including managing or supervising junior staff. You will be able to evidence ongoing professional development relevant to a leadership role, and a working knowledge of delivering service improvement initiatives would be beneficial.
Communicating with families and carers is a key part of this post. Ensuring that the team involves families and carers in the patient care plans and care delivery is especially important. As the team coordinator, you will have excellent time management skills, listening skills, and an ability to communicate and work collaboratively across the Lincolnshire healthcare system.
The post holder will support the Service Manager in providing effective frontline management of the multi-disciplinary community Mental Health team. In agreement with the Service Manager, the post holder will provide leadership and, in working in partnership with users, will ensure access to the full range of specialist assessment and interventions.
Responsibilities include:
1. To provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.
2. To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.
3. To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
4. To protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
5. To contribute to the development of the service, participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at individual briefing sessions and group management meetings as required.
6. To promote direct supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.
7. To support the Service Manager on service improvement following internal case review, complaints, and incidents.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge, or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable, and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Kirk Job title: Service Manager Email address: Clarekirk1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07920 251945
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