Community Team Leader - Perinatal Mental Health

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinician into a Team Leader’s role. The post holder will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.

The post holder will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.

You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.

There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of services users at the centre of care delivery. The post holder will carry our clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the relevant codes of Professional Conduct. The post holder will have a person-centred approach to practice., Management of care and practice

Management of Financial and Material Resources

Management of Clinical Standards

Management of Human Resources

Management of Information and Communication

Management of the Environment, Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.

To provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co-ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload.

Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff.

All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines.

Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources.

Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies.

Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users’ dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals’ independence.

Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting Improving Working Lives within the confines of a safe service.

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice

• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment

• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online

• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria

• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible

• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs

• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful

• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees

• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process

• That we are a smoke-free Trust

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