Living well Tameside is looking for a Team manager who is passionate about delivering excellent mental health services and can support and enable the team to achieve their potential. The Living Well MDT offers an approach to supporting people with mental health conditions, widening the front door to support better access and ensuring closer working between primary and secondary care mental health services. The team works with individuals to co-ordinate access by identifying need and support introductions and will be a conduit between Primary Care and other agencies ensuring warm introductions and smooth seamless journeys. The national strategic direction within the structure of Primary Care Network is to employ a wider range of health professionals to manage the increasing demand. The role will include leading work to collaboratively connect across organisation, national and service boundaries to improve access to offers relevant to people’s needs, ensuring support happens in the community and makes usage of people’s local and personal resources Support the management of the Tameside Living Well MDT providing clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to all staff in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined in the operational procedures. Providing clinical leadership and expertise to inform identification of people’s needs and ensuring the co-production of personalised care plans to support the delivery of high quality, brief support. Supporting individuals to identify their needs and ensure they can access the support they need, when they need it. Provide support and care for individuals referred to the Tameside Living Well MDT and co-ordinate the assessment process. To work independently and autonomously and deputise for Senior Management when required. Please refer to the job description and person spec for full details. We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Debra Kelleher Job title: System Lead - Living Well Tameside Email address: debra.kellehernhs.net Telephone number: 0161 716 4247