Team Leader - CAMHS Home Treatment Team

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a Team Leader Role to support a dynamic and well respected team of mental health practitioners in the Home Treatment Team covering East Sussex and Brighton & Hove.

The aim of the Home Treatment Team (HTT) is to provide an intensive home treatment care plan and intervention for young people in crisis to reduce presentations to A&E departments.

The service works in partnership with many agencies, taking referrals from, and working alongside local CAMHS teams, to add in to care packages for a time limited period with the aim of crisis resolution through supporting young people and families to maximise coping skills.

To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID

Main duties of the job

Applicants will be required to both manage and lead clinically on all aspects of the team's service delivery ensuring the highest of clinical and performance standards and targets are met.

The post holder will be expected to develop the operational delivery of the service as well as contributing to the strategic leadership of the team's development, playing an active part in the Local Leadership Team.

Applicants should have extensive experience in community based crisis work and have some demonstrable management/leadership experience.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Date posted

13 September 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

354-CS-20908-A

Job locations

Chalkhill/Flexible

Haywards Heath/Flexible

RH16 4EX

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants should have extensive experience in community based crisis work and have some demonstrable management/leadership experience.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Job description

Job responsibilities

REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants should have extensive experience in community based crisis work and have some demonstrable management/leadership experience.

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
Evidence of CPD

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
Experience of managing staff

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
Evidence of CPD

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
Experience of managing staff

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).