Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-GYW6364468
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Andrews Lodge, Julian Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 gross per annum/ pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 08:00
Employer heading
Community Team Manager
Band 7
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.
YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older adults? Do you have the leadership skills to manage a dynamic team in a clinical setting? If so, we have an exciting fixed term or secondment opportunity for you!
We are seeking a dedicated Community Team Manager (CTM) to join our Intensive Older Persons Service (IOPS) on a 6-month secondment. In this role, you will be responsible for the operational management and clinical/managerial supervision of our professional staff, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and responsive services to our service users, their families, and carers.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Suitably qualified/registered Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist.
- Demonstrated knowledge of mental health through substantial clinical and leadership experience, particularly within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Proven experience in leading service development and assessing risk.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
Main duties of the job
- Operational Management: Oversee the day-to-day operations of the IOPS team, ensuring effective and efficient use of resources to meet the needs of service users and carers.
- Clinical/Managerial Supervision: Provide supervision to professional staff in line with trust values, ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure a high standard of care is maintained by adhering to standard operating procedures, protocols, and pathways.
- Resource Allocation: Allocate work within the team to optimize resource utilization and service delivery.
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor the team’s performance and contribution to the Trust’s overall objectives.
- Professional Governance: Provide strong leadership and governance within your area of responsibility, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management Responsibilities:
- Operational Management: Oversee a range of aspects of service delivery within the team, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and Trust policies.
- Line Management: Manage identified staff within the team, including continuing professional development (CPD), performance management, staff appraisals, and HR issues.
- Recruitment and Retention: Proactively recruit new staff and maintain delegated staff wellbeing and retention.
- Budget Management: Effectively manage the delegated aspects of the team budget.
- Pathway Development: Lead the development of effective mental health care pathways within the team.
- Service Evaluation: Lead and support service evaluation and audit systems.
- Policy Development: Review and develop service-wide policies and protocols.
- Partnerships: Support the establishment of partnerships and networks with key stakeholders.
- Deputy Responsibilities: Deputise for the Service Manager as required.
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Accountability: Be accountable for your own professional actions.
- Workload Management: Effectively plan and organize your daily workload.
- Flexibility: Work flexibly and manage your working time according to service demands.
- Autonomous Practice: Make clinical judgments and identify alternative courses of action.
- Quality Care: Manage and provide a high quality of care.
- Professional Relationships: Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.
- Training: Attend all mandatory training required by the Trust and undertake further training as necessary.
- Therapeutic Relationships: Initiate, create, and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient-centred.
- Patient Involvement: Promote the involvement of patients and carers in the development of the care pathway.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
- Post basic teaching qualification
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management/supervisi on experience
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team
- Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development.
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management
- Mentoring Experience
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gillian Mutizwa
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 978396
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