Team Leader

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are very excited to be delivering our Initial Response Service (IRS). This service provides a front door to all of our mental health services within the Bay providing a 24/7 call handling, triage, planned care and crisis response function.

You will work closely with other team leaders in your locality and support the Service Manager in ensuring service users receive high quality interventions.

The post will be within the Bay locality, working from our new IRS hub supporting our urgent care pathway. You will be responsible for an established team of practitioners, senior / call handlers and admin staff, including the operational day to day running of the team.

This role is key to the new service providing a responsive single point of access for urgent and routine requests for help, including signposting to relevant services within and outside of LSCFT. A crucial part of the design, is to enable this service to work alongside the HTT's, CMHT's, EIS, and Older Adult services, therefore sharing skills and experience, promoting positive learning and development for all staff within their roles is vital.

The successful candidate will be a registered mental health, Occupational therapist or Social worker, the service will operate 24/7 and candidates will be able to negotiate shift patterns to fit in with their home and personal needs.

If you require any further information please contact us on the details provided.

Main duties of the job

You will be keen to embrace change and have a positive manner to support team members through change, provide strong leadership.

To provide clinical leadership and first line management for a community-based mental health team in a designated geographical locality within Lancashire Care Foundation Trust.

The post holder will work with senior clinicians and have responsibility for the delivery of high quality and high performing team to a defined population.

To ensure that staff in the team have opportunities for continuing professional development, in order to provide best practice and meet the requirements of registering bodies, and to drive improvements in standards of clinical practice and patient care in line with the NHS modernisation and Public Health agendas.

To provide direct clinical care to patients.

To work with senior clinicians to actively lead in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement and performance management agenda within an identified locality team

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Date posted

11 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-BAY711-EB

Job locations

East Barns

Lancaster

LA1 4JJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Must hold a relevant professional qualification, (RMN, SW, OT)
Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma or management qualification
Completion of, or working towards, management or Leadership Training

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of the Urgent Care Pathway principles and practice
Knowledge of Assessment, Implementation, Monitoring and Review (including risk assessments)
Demonstrate awareness of reflective and evidenced based practice (especially in relation to those suffering with a severe and enduring mental illness)

Experience

Essential

Leadership skills/Managing Staff
Prioritising duties and tasks
Ability to work independently and as a Team Member

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Must hold a relevant professional qualification, (RMN, SW, OT)
Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma or management qualification
Completion of, or working towards, management or Leadership Training

Knowledge

Essential

Awareness of the Urgent Care Pathway principles and practice
Knowledge of Assessment, Implementation, Monitoring and Review (including risk assessments)
Demonstrate awareness of reflective and evidenced based practice (especially in relation to those suffering with a severe and enduring mental illness)

Experience

Essential

Leadership skills/Managing Staff
Prioritising duties and tasks
Ability to work independently and as a Team Member

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.