Community Mental Health Hub Team Leader in London

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Team Leader for Harrow Community Mental Health Hub. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker to join our dynamic team. The post holder will work with adults in the community with mental health needs and support the team with the day to day running of a busy mental health service. The role is suitable for a qualified clinician with experience working in the community and for someone seeking to develop their leadership and management skills.

Main duties of the job:

• Coordinate referrals and transfers of care.
• Be responsible for the supervision of staff & their case load.
• Manage a small caseload.
• Support coordination of duty.
• Develop and maintain close professional relationships with different teams within Bentley House.
• Work closely with the consultants, managers and admin, with particular focus on the allocated PCN/INT.
• Ensure staff practice in a safe, appropriate and professional way with service users and their carers.
• Attend professional practice forums.
• Chair clinical and team meetings as appropriate.
• Represent the CMHH at various meetings.
• Provide senior support to the Team Manager.
• Assist the team to be compliant with KPI and monitor electronic records.

Working for our organisation:

• We strongly encourage and support vaccination for staff to protect patients, service users, colleagues, and yourself.
• Commitment from the team to develop you by offering in-house development sessions.
• Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
• On and off-site shadowing opportunities, including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more.
• Local nursing, social work or OT forums run by one of the senior leads.
• An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age presenting with high risk and high complexity. Assess for health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
• Prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• Undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
• Ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi‑disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
• Offer a range of evidence based psycho‑social interventions and pro‑active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
• Help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• Provide professional leadership and supervision to members of the Community Mental Health Hub, including management of sickness and absence, performance and conduct policies, and compliance with statutory and mandatory training.
• Work in partnership with senior managers in the MDT, including the team managers, service managers and consultants, to support the management and development of the services within the Hub, including KPI's.
• Develop effective working networks and partnerships with community agencies to address the holistic needs of service's users.
• Undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development including identifying own learning needs.

Qualifications:

• Relevant professional qualification.
• HCPC/NMC registration.
• Relevant post‑basic training for all disciplines.
• Mentorship qualification relevant to professions.
• Management/leadership training.

Experience:

• Significant years post‑qualifying experience at Band 6 level.
• Working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems in the community.
• Assessing health and social needs and formulating care‑plans to reflect those needs.
• Working in a multi‑cultural environment.
• Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations.
• Experience of caseload management and throughput.
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of providing supervision.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Budgetary management.

Skills:

• Ability to chair regular MDT meetings with strong leadership skills.
• Highly proactive and responsive to day to day demands of working in a busy CMHT.
• Experience of using a range of therapeutic skills & psychosocial interventions.
• Ability to succinctly formulate clinical intervention including signposting to other community services.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2015.
• Risk assessment and management.
• Highly skilled in IT applications e.g. Excel, Word.
• Proficient in utilising Tableau to monitor team/individual performance.
• Ability to embrace and manage change effectively & sensitively within the team and the wider organisation.
• Current developments in mental health care.

Other:

• Sickness/attendance record that is acceptable to the Trust.
• Willingness to undertake further training & professional development.
• Possession of a valid driving licence.
• Able to recognise signs of stress in self & others.

Safeguarding Statement:

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.