Job summary
The post holder will be responsible for managing the mental health team on site, and deputising for the Head of Healthcare to oversee the wider Offender Healthcare team during absence.
The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership for a multi-disciplinary clinical team, providing a high quality service within the resources available.
The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers' involvement at every stage of the care pathway.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:
- To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
- Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required
- Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development
- To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place
- To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget
- To actively manage a small caseload of patient
- To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards
- Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational polic
- Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decision
- Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We're KindWe're FairWe ListenWe Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performance Management:
To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities.
- Assume overall management accountability for the team
- Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy
- Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required
- To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service
- Establish, develop and contribute to service developments within the directorate
- Understand the Trusts key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group
- To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety
- Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times
- Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team
Management responsibilities
- Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets
- Authorised signatory and payroll change forms
- Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trusts HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity, and optimum performance
- Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development
- Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery
- Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy
- Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback
- Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level
- Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery
- Clinical record keeping is of a consistent high standard and meets trust policy and practice guidance
Clinical
- Ensure effective communication systems and structures are in place to facilitate the dissemination of information relating to patients risk profiles
- To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of care leading on the prioritising of clinical needs and risk to provide an effective, safe and efficient service
- To ensure partnership working with service users and their families where appropriate, to meet a range of complex situations that arise from offending behaviour and mental health needs
- To ensure all policies are understood including Mental Health Act, Childrens Act and Safeguarding Adults
Job description
Job responsibilities
Performance Management:
To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities.
- Assume overall management accountability for the team
- Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy
- Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required
- To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service
- Establish, develop and contribute to service developments within the directorate
- Understand the Trusts key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group
- To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety
- Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times
- Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team
Management responsibilities
- Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets
- Authorised signatory and payroll change forms
- Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trusts HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity, and optimum performance
- Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development
- Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery
- Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy
- Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback
- Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level
- Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery
- Clinical record keeping is of a consistent high standard and meets trust policy and practice guidance
Clinical
- Ensure effective communication systems and structures are in place to facilitate the dissemination of information relating to patients risk profiles
- To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of care leading on the prioritising of clinical needs and risk to provide an effective, safe and efficient service
- To ensure partnership working with service users and their families where appropriate, to meet a range of complex situations that arise from offending behaviour and mental health needs
- To ensure all policies are understood including Mental Health Act, Childrens Act and Safeguarding Adults
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience
- Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience is essential.
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
- Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
Desirable
- Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience
- Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience is essential.
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
- Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
Desirable
- Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
