Band 7 Older Adult Community Team Manager - Maple Leaf Centre

Band 7 Older Adult Community Team Manager – Maple Leaf Centre

Band 7

Main area: Community Mental Health

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours

37.5 hours per week (per annum, pro rata)

Job ref: 436-6963519

Site: Maple Leaf Centre

Town: Marston Green, Birmingham

Salary: £46,148 – £52,809 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59

Interview date: 27/02/2025

Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen within our Solihull Older Adult Community Mental Health Team and we are recruiting a Band 7 Team Manager. It\’s an exciting time to join the older adult division, with service changes and a dynamic and compassionate leadership team. We are looking for someone with a passion for older adults and improving the services that we provide.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational management, leadership, planning, and delivery of clinical services across the team. The individual will also be an active member of the management team, contributing to the shaping of our strategic and business plans and inputting to the Trust\’s overall direction of travel.

Main duties of the job

The Team Manager is responsible for the management, development, and implementation of standards across a community multi-disciplinary team within a defined catchment area, ensuring that care co-ordination is appropriately undertaken and professional advice and caseload supervision is given to team members. This includes ensuring optimum standards of patient care via the effective and efficient management of human, financial, and physical resources, in line with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, resource controls, and regulatory body standards.

The post-holder will be highly visible, spending considerable time in the team base working alongside team members, as well as being a senior leader in the development of place-based and locality working. Working with the Clinical Services Manager and the Clinical Development Lead, the post-holder will ensure a strong focus on the delivery of high-quality, safe, and efficient services while collaborating with other professional leads and stakeholders both inside and outside the organization.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialized services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing, and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterized in places by high levels of deprivation, which creates an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive, and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about the main responsibilities, please view the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Experience

• Band 6 or above experience of managing teams/staff
• Mental Health Experience
• Older Adult Experience
• Community Experience

Qualifications and skills

• Professional registration/qualification
• Experience of supervision and staff development
• Relevant postgraduate training

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfill their potential. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Name: Lou Pickering

Job title: Clinical Service Manager

Email address: lou.pickering1@nhs.net

Telephone number: 0121 301 5742

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