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(Internally titled Locality Wellbeing Lead)
We are looking for an experienced Wellbeing Team Manager, to work out of our hospice The Nook, NR14 7PX.
You will join our Wellbeing and Leadership teams, supporting our service users, their families and our clinical colleagues. You will also work alongside relevant counterparts at our other hospices in East Anglia.
Do you hold a:
* current professional qualification to work therapeutically with adults, children and young people.
* current registration with a professional organisation relevant to your field practice i.e. BACP, UKCP, BPS, HCPC.
As the wellbeing lead for the hospice, you will have experience of:
* managing a team in a therapeutic setting.
* confident leadership and people development skills.
* working with CYP and their families who have emotional/mental health needs (such as dealing with grief and loss, post-traumatic stress, palliative care, and bereavement).
You will have experience of therapeutic work and be able to demonstrate evidence of supervision training as well as provide specialist assessment and interventions (within your sphere of professional education and training) to children, young people, and their families.
Main duties of the job
What we offer:
* Access to external clinical supervision.
* A unique opportunity to develop your skills in a child & family centred clinical setting.
* Free Parking.
* Continuation of NHS Pension if currently contributing.
* Subsidised meals.
* Access to discount scheme - Blue Light Card.
* Employer pension scheme (up to 7% employer contribution) including life assurance cover.
Are you:
* an experienced people manager with a passion for team member development?
* looking for an exciting new challenge?
* wanting to be part of an enthusiastic, progressive, forward-thinking, and professional organisation?
Do you want to:
* make a real difference, every single day, to the lives of babies, children, and young people who access our services?
* lead and manage a multidisciplinary team of practitioners?
* be key to the development and delivery of day-to-day psychological services?
* work each day in a supportive and professional environment?
* be encouraged to advance your professional development?
To arrange an informal discussion with Michelle Attrill, Head of Wellbeing & Spiritual Care regarding the role and/or to arrange a visit to the hospice please feel free to email hrinbox@each.org.uk.
Interviews: 13th January 2025 at The Nook Hospice.
About us
Comprehensive range of benefits:
* Free onsite parking & subsidised meals at our hospices.
* Pool car provided when working in the community.
* NHS pension - continuation if already contributing.
* Enhanced Annual leave Entitlement - 27 days + 8 UK Bank Holidays.
* AVIVA pension package up to 7% Employer Contribution including Life Assurance.
* Free eye tests & cycle to work scheme.
* Wellbeing support & Employee Assistance Programme.
East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) supports families and cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
We are extremely proud to say all three of our hospice services were rated OUTSTANDING when last inspected by the Care Quality Commission. This fantastic achievement is due to the commitment and professionalism of our wonderfully dedicated employees and volunteers.
At EACH we are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community, in particular from eligible candidates from BAME backgrounds.
EACH is proud to be Investors in People accredited.
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
Line manage and appraise members of the wellbeing team.
Provision of clinical practice leadership and coordination for emotional health and wellbeing service provision within a hospice locality to support the development and implementation of a model of working underpinned by systemic thinking.
Provision of specialist level clinical practice, assessments, and delivery of evidence-informed therapeutic interventions for a small caseload within your sphere of professional practice.
Responsibilities:
* To provide clinical leadership and coordination for emotional health and wellbeing service provision within a locality, across teams and disciplines, including both universal and targeted services, recognising that the emotional health and wellbeing of service users forms a core part of every staff member's job role.
* Line manage and appraise members of the wellbeing team.
* To develop the network approach in the locality by developing relationships with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals to ensure that EACH is knowledgeable about services available to families and how they would meet identified needs and to minimise the risk of duplication.
* To provide leadership in close collaboration with the EACH Service Managers & Matron across a locality to support the implementation of a model of working underpinned by systemic thinking and promote a learning culture.
* To ensure practitioners who provide wellbeing interventions are working in a way which is safe, evidence-informed, and in line with EACH's model.
* To facilitate reflective team discussions/learning promoting a high level of systemic thinking.
* To develop resilience and maintain effective working relationships with and amongst the multi-professional team throughout EACH.
* To co-lead the locality multi-professional meetings with the Service Manager and Matron providing clinical leadership on all aspects of service users' emotional health and wellbeing.
* To ensure the assessment and monitoring of risk across one locality and including use of appropriate risk management plans in relation to individual service users.
* To provide specialist clinical practice assessments and deliver evidence-informed therapeutic interventions for a small caseload of families/individuals that need this level of intervention.
* To maintain clinical records using the SystmOne electronic records system in accordance with best practice guidance.
* To provide advice and act as a resource to care team staff within a locality.
* To provide clinical supervision to multi-professional staff in line with EACH policy.
* To enable staff to develop formulations and plan, review, modify, and adapt interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical and therapeutic models and evidence-informed practice.
* To participate in multi-professional meetings in EACH and with other agencies across the network relating to children, young people, and their families providing advice, support, and clinical leadership in relation to service users' emotional health and wellbeing and staff wellbeing.
* To take a lead role for a specific area of practice such as bereavement, working with neonates and their families, individual or group universal or targeted level approaches to support, contributing to service developments and implementation in this area, including gathering outcome data.
* To provide reports for internal and external meetings and committees when required.
* To identify and take opportunities to deliver education and training within the locality and EACH as a whole, to help enhance emotional health and wellbeing knowledge, skills, and confidence.
* To ensure effective referral to statutory mental health services within the local network.
* To be responsible for your own ongoing practice development and lifelong learning by adopting a reflective approach to personal practice; participating in appraisal, clinical and safeguarding supervision, reflective practice, education, and training.
* To participate in EACH's quality and assurance initiatives.
Person Specification
Other Requirements
* Must have full UK drivers licence and own transport.
* Evidence of commitment to own continuing professional development.
Skills & Abilities
* Highly developed communication and listening skills with an ability to articulate ideas clearly.
* Ability to communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, to clients, family carers, and others as appropriate, information that may be contentious or highly distressing concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients under their care.
* Able to develop and maintain relationships across agencies.
* Able to provide specialist assessment and interventions to children, young people, and their families.
* Able to provide specialist advice to other professionals.
* Able to implement policies and propose policy change/service development.
* Able to monitor clinical effectiveness.
* Has a demonstrable personal resilience and a solution-focused approach.
* Able to share skills with others through teaching or consultation.
* Able to deliver training initiatives in own area of expertise.
* Able to provide others with clear purpose and direction in delivering a high quality, outcomes-based service (clinical leadership).
* Able to identify problem areas within the service and contribute to possible solutions.
* Able to collect and use data to provide information on service outcomes.
* Able to adopt a collaborative and participative approach to achieve successful multi-professional team and partnership working.
* Able to identify relevant research-based information as part of evidence-informed practice.
* Able to demonstrate a flexible attitude and approach to the changing work environment.
* Proven commitment to equality and diversity, to ensure all staff and service users have access to an environment that is open and free from discrimination.
Qualifications
* Professional knowledge acquired through degree or diploma or other professional training relevant to field of practice, alongside significant post qualification study.
* Evidence of registration with the professional body relevant to the practitioners field of practice.
* Knowledge of clinical governance & the ability to ensure that practice is clinically effective.
* Up to date knowledge of the law and regulatory requirements which underpin best practice in safeguarding children and adults at risk.
* Knowledge of models of bereavement and evidence base for approaches to supporting bereaved families.
* Evidence of highly developed specialist children's palliative care knowledge underpinned by theory and experience.
* Knowledge or training in specific solution-focused models of working.
* Up to date knowledge of National guidelines and developments in the field of emotional health and wellbeing.
* Dual qualification which includes Family Therapy.
* Systemic Training.
* Clinical supervision training.
Experience
* Demonstrated experience of working with families and CYP with mental health needs.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Evidence of facilitating multi-professional systemic consultations.
* Evidence of leadership skills, motivation, and development of people.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision using a systemic approach.
* Experience of lone working.
* Experience of providing line management and appraisal.
* Experience of delivering therapeutic groups.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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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