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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
395-HV599-24-A
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
137-145 Church Road, Harold Wood, Romford, RM3 0SH
Town
Harold Wood
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/07/2024 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Operational Lead - Early Intervention in Psychosis

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated manager to lead our Havering Early Intervention in Psychosis Service as their Operational Lead. 

Come and lead our dynamic and evidenced based EIP service.  You will be accountable for the day to day delivery of the service, with a focus on service user satisfaction, service quality,  governance, risk, and care management, all of which will should be underpinned by compassionate leadership.  

Main duties of the job

  1. Provide leadership and line management for senior clinicians and practitioners within the EIP Team. This will include day-today guidance and support to the team, management supervision, performance management, and monitoring service delivery
  2. Help ensure that the team stay up to date with best practice in EIP services.
  3. To use databases to produce reports / statistics / performance data / flow rates and data on clinical outcomes for the Havering leadership team as required.
  4. To conduct agreed service research and generate appropriate reports and audits on RiO and trust databases to ensure user standards are delivered.
  5. To work with the Assistant Integrated Care Director and Senior Leadership Team to establish the appropriate future direction of the service.
  6. To ensure practice development plans include mental health and support and audit the implementation of these plans.
  7. To ensure service users and carers are fully engaged in the development and delivery of mental health services.
  8. To ensure that trends in need, service use and unmet needs are collated and conveyed to the relevant parties and to work with the service to develop strategies to meet address any unmet need.
  9. To chair both clinical and managerial meetings providing clinical/practice and managerial expertise into these meetings.
  10. To develop and maintain effective partnerships between the service staff, local authority teams and partner agencies.
  11. To manage the service budget for the EIP Team.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

 

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,108 to a maximum of £5,177).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles.  Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on the vacancy.

 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience of working with people with complex, acute mental health needs and challenging behaviours in the community.
  • Significant experience at Band 7 or above, including significant experience of supervising clinical staff
  • Managing and being accountable for service budgets
  • Managing performance of a service, including celebrating strong performance and addressing performance challenges
  • Significant experience of recruiting clinical staff

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualification in MH nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or Clinical Psychology

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • An awareness of the NHS Long Term Plan, Community Mental Health Framework, and other relevant policies
  • Thorough knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and related legislation
  • Mental health, including best practice, latest research and effective service delivery processes
  • Knowledge of and a commitment to the principle of equal opportunities in service delivery.
  • Physical Health challenges specifically related to mental health clients

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good knowledge and awareness of IT and IT skills
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills especially when handling conflict and change.
  • Ability to resolve difficulties, including those relating to working relationships and service user and carer complaints and concerns
  • Ability to facilitate positive multi-disciplinary working relationships across all service areas.
  • Ability to explore emotionally demanding aspect of role
  • Strong mental health clinical skills

Other

Essential criteria
  • To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
  • To be aware of and demonstrate the Trust Values

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joe Jackson
Job title
Head of Service - Mental Health and Wellness Teams
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07834 619827
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