Team Manager (Home Based Treatment Team) in Wigan

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and passionate individual to join a forward thinking, dynamic Wigan Home-Based Treatment Team (HBTT) as Team Manager. The post holder will take overall responsibility for the day-to-day management, leadership and development of the service. Using a team approach, the service will provide recovery-focused care with a view to preventing hospital admission and enabling individuals to manage their illness in their own home, thereby improving their quality of life. The Team Manager will also work with the wider leadership team around all issues related to service development.

Main duties of the job:

• Retain overall responsibility for the management of the Home-Based Treatment Team.
• Manage the workload of the Home-Based Treatment Team, ensuring that appropriate systems are in place for:
• Allocation, transfer and discharge/closure of case responsibility, ensuring that transition in and out of the team is safely managed, in-line with Core Fidelity benchmarks.
• Supporting patient flow both in and out of hospital, including support with gatekeeping and facilitating safe supported discharge from inpatient wards with HBT support.
• Development of robust care planning to ensure service users, carers and staff are adequately supported.

Knowledge & Skills:

• A knowledge of the Home-Based Treatment Service Model of intervention and its effectiveness.
• Sound knowledge of the factors involved in the development of poor mental health and key features of relapse prevention.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and monitor own and others’ workload.
• Ability to implement and maintain good standards of professional practice to ensure a quality and efficient service.
• The ability to promote good staff care by creating a supportive environment, which contains workload management, supervision, staff development and training opportunities.
• Knowledge of service monitoring and evaluation.

Other:

• A willingness to be flexible, proactive and to undertake duties which may fall outside traditional professional boundaries.
• Post holder will be required to participate in an on-call system.
• There is an occasional requirement to travel across the wide footprint of the Trust to attend meetings and events relevant to the role.
• Committed to improving mental health services.

Important Information about working for GMMH: All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks. The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities. We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.