North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Team Leader

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Job summary

The Memory Service is looking to recruit a full-time Team Leader. The successful candidate will be based at The Lyme Brook Centre on the Bradwell Hospital Site.

You will be responsible for:

Managing and providing strategic leadership to the Memory Service.

The management of designated clinical areas, allocating and providing sufficient resources and opportunities to deliver person centred care, involving service users and carers.

Managing the recruitment and deployment of people in an area of work.

Main duties of the job

To ensure the team operational policies are conducive to recovery and the development of independence

To supervise and critically evaluate the clinical management of service areas as applicable

To work as a member of the MDT in management of care and the response to changes in service users' health

To develop measures to ensure that customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, activity are respected in supporting the individual to fulfil these

To develop measures to monitor the provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies

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

21 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

232-CMT-6471043

Job locations

County Memory Service

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7TL

Job description

Job responsibilities

To develop tools to ensure the recording of all contacts with service users in case notes in line with NSCHT record keeping policy

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others

To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist

To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user

To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background

Job description

Job responsibilities

To develop tools to ensure the recording of all contacts with service users in case notes in line with NSCHT record keeping policy

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others

To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist

To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to the service user

To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant professional qualification eg. RMN/ BSc Nursing/Social Work/Occupational Therapy

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Relevant professional qualification eg. RMN/ BSc Nursing/Social Work/Occupational Therapy

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

County Memory Service

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7TL

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

County Memory Service

Stoke on Trent

ST5 7TL

Employer's website

https://www.combined.nhs.uk/working-together/join-our-team/ (Opens in a new tab)