Deputy Team Leader

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

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Job summary

The City CMHT at The Greenfield Centre are looking to recruit a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader.

The successful applicant will:

Support the Team Leader/Manager in the day to day running of the community mental health team, offering support and advice to the wider team.
Work as part of the leadership team within the adult community mental health team under direct/indirect supervision of the team leader/manager.
Act as care co-ordinator for a specific group of patients and provide care under the supervision of the CMHT Team Leader.
Take part in multi- disciplinary triage meetings reviewing referrals received to the team.
Complete initial needs assessments with newly referred patients and offer oversight and guidance to core team members.

Main duties of the job

To act as practitioner nurse/care co-ordinator for an identified group of patients within the overall community team caseload. To ensure that appropriate interventions are planned and delivered according to assessed need. To promote a positive nurse patient relationship and to engage with carers/relatives as appropriate.

To have responsibility for documenting the plans of care and ensuring that plans remain current and that standards for record-keeping are adhered to. To take an active role in auditing and maintaining standards of record-keeping for this group of patients. To ensure the client has a signed copy of their agreed care plan.

To have responsibility for seeking support and advice from the CMHT Manager in respect of issues and difficulties with individual patient care. To attend regular decision-making meetings with the CMHT Manager in order to address caseload management issues such as acceptance of assessments, the provision of ongoing care, discharge planning, face-to-face contacts and patient mix.

To administer and manage medicines according to policy and local protocol. To assess patient response and provide advice and education to both patient and carers in respect of prescribed medicines.

About us

Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.

Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.

As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:

Proud to CARE:

Compassionate

Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.

Approachable

Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open

Responsible

Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions

Excellent

Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.

Date posted

18 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

232-CMT-6433530

Job locations

The Greenfield Centre

Stoke on Trent

ST6 5UD

Job description

Job responsibilities

To have responsibility for the delivery of care to a group of patients within the community setting under the direction of the CMHT Manager and ensuring that clinical need and workload is prioritised effectively and that resources are utilised effectively. Reaching decisions in conjunction with the CMHT Manager based upon knowledge of services and client group, assessment of level of risk and available resources. Delivering clinical interventions and discharging patients according to agreed treatment pattern and discussing any deviations from this with the CMHT Manager.

To provide supervision and support to junior staff and report any issues or concerns to the CMHT Manager.

Act as Change Agent; develop practice through evidence/action research. Management of all aspects of the change process, ensuring that significant others are fully engaged and that positive change is reviewed, evaluated and communicated both within the immediate team and more widely within the organisation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide supervision and support to junior staff and report any issues or concerns to the CMHT Manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A qualified/registered mental health Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse/LD Nurse, Social Worker, OT)
Experience in Adult Mental Health

Experience

Essential

Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
Understanding of psychosocial interventions

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

A qualified/registered mental health Practitioner (Mental Health Nurse/LD Nurse, Social Worker, OT)
Experience in Adult Mental Health

Experience

Essential

Experience of working therapeutically in community settings
Experience of working with a range of statutory, non-statutory agencies

Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of various approaches to mental health assessment
Understanding of psychosocial interventions

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.