Band 7 Older Adult Community Team Manager - Maple Leaf Centre

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen within our Solihull Older Adult Community Mental Health Team and we are recruiting a Band 7 Team Manager. It's a exciting time to join the older adult division, with service changes and a dynamic and compassionate leadership team we are looking for someone with a passion for older adults and improving the services that we provide,

The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational management, leadership, planning and delivery of clinical services across the team. The individual will also be an active member of the management team, who will contribute to the shaping of our strategic and business plans within these services and input to the Trusts overall direction of travel.

Main duties of the job

The Team Manager is responsible for the management, development and implementation of standards across a community team based multi-disciplinary team within a defined catchment area, ensuring that care co-ordination is appropriately undertaken and professional advice and caseload supervision given to team members, ensuring optimum standards of patient care via the effective and efficient management of human, financial and physical resources, in line with agreed objectives, targets and quality standards, resource controls and constraints and regulatory body standards.

The post-holder will be highly visible spending considerable time in the team base working alongside team members, as well as being a senior leader in the development of place based and locality working. Working with the Clinical Services Manager and the Clinical Development Lead the post-holder will ensure there is a strong focus on the delivery of high quality, safe and efficient services whist working alongside other professional leads and stakeholders both inside and outside the organisation.

Internal secondments will be considered subject to managers approval.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.