AHP Clinical Team Leader - Older Persons Mental Health

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider seeks an AHP Clinical Team Leader for Older Persons Mental Health to provide clinical and managerial leadership. The role involves overseeing AHPs, managing complex clinical cases, and supporting service development. Ideal candidates will have senior clinical skills and a background in mental health practice. Employees enjoy benefits like extensive training, career progression, and generous annual leave. This role is based in Norwich, close to beautiful coastlines and the Broads National Park.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days

Qualifications

• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
• Knowledge of medication and monitoring its effects.
• Evidence of leading service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership across the AHP professions.
• Advocate for the AHP workforce.
• Support the management of attendance and responsibilities.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Mental health knowledge

Communication skills

Education

RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or equivalent

Higher degree or postgraduate certificate

Job description

AHP Clinical Team Leader - Older Persons Mental Health

AHP Clinical Team Lead - Older Persons Mental Health

We have an exciting opportunity within our Older Persons Mental Health Services for an Allied Health Professional Clinical Team Lead role. We are seeking an innovative, flexible, experienced and dynamic clinician to provide both clinical and managerial leadership to our AHP's across the Julian Hospital older persons inpatient wards.

We are looking for an Allied Health Professional with specialist clinical skills and senior decision‑making skills with a passion for quality improvement and using national best‑practice guidelines to influence clinical practice.

You will be required to use your specialist clinical skills to support service users across a range of wards as well as your strategic skills to support with the development of the service. You will be supported to develop both your clinical and strategic leadership skills.

This role will be based at the Julian Hospital to cover the Older persons inpatient wards. There will also be the opportunity to work with the Older Persons community teams to support and influence Community Transformation.

Please note applications will only be accepted from those who are a registered Allied Health Professional.

Main duties of the job

Within this role you will:

• Provide clinical leadership across the AHP professions.
• Provide line management supervision to the AHP Band 6's in the team and ensure a structure is in place for the supervision and development of AHP Band 5's and 4's.
• Advocate for the AHP workforce whilst acting as a central point of contact for leading on decisions relating to Older Person's AHP services.
• Provide specialist clinical input across the service to support with complex clinical cases.
• Lead the local AHP meetings and to work with the workforce to ensure outcomes from feedback are actioned.
• Review audits with the wider team to support the development of clinical practice.
• Liaise with the Clinical Team Leaders to share this information to support line management supervision.
• Role model and foster strong working relationships between the AHP groups, to ensure that care is integrated and results in the best possible outcomes for service users.
• Oversee the roster for AHPs to ensure that the clinical needs of the service are met.
• Support and manage the attendance and management responsibilities for the team.
• Liaise with the wider teams to inform them of changes to service provision in response to changes in the workforce.
• Work closely with the Locality AHP Lead and Principal Lead to support development of the service delivered in order to improve service and service‑user outcomes.
• Be the conduit for taking information to and bringing back information from internal and external AHP forums.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong AHP networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job descriptions for further information.

Please note:

• Build close connections with each of the ward managers to gain input into the management of the AHPs.
• For the clinical aspects of this role you will not be allocated to a specific ward, instead you will be required to work flexibly and support across the service to meet the clinical needs.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or equivalent
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher degree or postgraduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice

Knowledge

• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects.
• Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion.
• An understanding of policies and guidelines both local and national e.g., National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.

Experience

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Evidence of leading service development within in a mental health setting
• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
• Working in a community mental health team

Skills

• Establish performance management team structures and systems.

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.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yeargross per annum (pro rata)