Team Lead

Are you an experienced Mental Health Practitioner or Team Leader looking to take the next step in your career? We are looking for Nurses, Social Workers, and Occupational Therapists with significant experience of working in mental health services. As part of our community transformation plans, we are starting to develop our Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHT). You will be at the forefront of leading on the community transformation changes and take a lead working alongside our partner agencies. The successful candidate will lead a multidisciplinary team and support them to continue to maintain high standards of care and treatment for our service users who may have multiple and enduring mental health needs. We are looking to recruit an individual who is enthusiastic, talented, clinically experienced and able to function well independently and within a multidisciplinary team. You will need to be:

• Compassionate
• Professional
• Well organized
• Motivated

Main duties of the job

To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team specifically to deliver on the following key areas:

• Management of referrals including delivery of care
• Performance monitoring and management
• Line Management and supervision of staff
• To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness
• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team
• To take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases
• To ensure that the team functions are in line with the care group core business
• To coordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the service manager
• To respond to serious incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
• To respond to Safeguarding concerns as appropriate
• To respond to complaints
• To respond to communications regarding team issues
• To ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the team’s business

About us

As a mental health trust, Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. As a Team Lead in our team, we can offer you:

• Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
• Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for leadership training and development
• Flexible working patterns
• Reimbursed parking
• Child care vouchers
• Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants, and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
• NHS Pension contributions

Additional Information

• Part-time working applications will be considered
• You will be expected to work across the Hastings and Rother area
• This post is currently 9 am – 5 pm Monday to Friday

Job responsibilities

Qualifications

Essential criteria: Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience. Evidence of CPD.

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria: Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice. Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff. Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance. Experience of managing staff. Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers, and other stakeholders. An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks. An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives. Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust. Resilient and self-motivated with drive and vision that is able to work on own initiative and manage a range of priorities across competing agendas.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of CPD

Knowledge/Experience

• Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
• Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
• Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
• Experience of managing staff

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.

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Per Annum / pro rata for part time

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