Are you looking for an opportunity to further develop your leadership skills?
Are you interested in a role that includes providing operational leadership?
The Wiltshire Community Eating Disorder Service (WCEDS) is looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, with a passion for making a difference to adults who are suffering with an eating disorder, to join this busy community multi-disciplinary team as the Clinical Team Manager.
You will be part of a team of dedicated and experienced multi-disciplinary professionals working with adults with eating disorders.
With a reputation for excellence, our service provides a stepped model of care tailored to the individual’s needs for stabilisation and recovery. We offer a range of programmes and evidence-based treatments to assist with this. We are a friendly, energetic and dynamic team who are proactive and visionary, focusing on excellent patient centred care.
Within this post you will also provide Operational Leadership for All Age Eating Disorders in BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire, working closely with the Clinical Lead for All Age Eating Disorders.
You will require a professional qualification with current UK registration and previous experience of working in Mental Health/ Eating Disorder Services.
You will hold overall management responsibility for all aspects of service delivery and operational matters for Wiltshire and Swindon Adult Community Eating Disorders.
In this hugely important team role, you’ll manage and supervise a diverse group of staff from a range of professional backgrounds, provide great leadership with enthusiasm for service transformation and determination to provide outstanding quality of care. You’ll be responsible for coordinating and motivating the team, having robust oversight of waiting lists and working with key colleagues to ensure continuity of service.
You will provide operational leadership for the expansion and development of the service in line with the BSW Community Mental Health Services vision that includes earlier intervention and care and treatment being provided within community settings with close integrated working arrangements with GPs via Primary Care Networks.
We provide a comprehensive induction programme and regular managerial, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision.
We encourage our team managers to lead on leadership projects, provide opportunities to attend leadership training and access to other external training as relevant to professional qualification and role.
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
You will:
1. Take operational responsibility for the Multi-Disciplinary Team, including monitoring and managing workloads, caseload management, job planning, management supervision, authorising leave and expenses and implementing systems to ensure safe, effective working of the service.
2. Be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the team in providing a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team ensuring the provision and delivery of high-quality, seamless, evidence-based treatment pathways.
3. Work in partnership with key agencies across BSW, regionally and nationally to ensure strong and active relationships and promoting service developments and shared outcomes for people with an Eating Disorder.
4. Support the development of integrated care across a range of services internally and externally, e.g. Acute services, Primary Health Care, Secondary Health Care, Provider Collaboratives, CAMHS, AMHS, and the Voluntary and Community Sector.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the Bath and North-East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Out of Hours On-Call Manager’s Rota. There is a robust system of support available from the consultant psychiatrist and senior manager on call.
We are very proud of our service and welcome you to come and look around and meet some of the team. For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact us. #J-18808-Ljbffr