Band 7 Team Manager (EI) - Kingswood Civic Centre

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Midmeredales; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health care provider is seeking a leader for their Early Intervention in Psychosis service in Midmeredales, UK. The role involves inspiring a team to maintain high clinical standards while providing care and support to service users and carers. Applicants should have experience in mental health services and a commitment to diversity and an inclusive environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire the team to deliver quality service for users and carers.
• Ensure clinical standards are maintained within the team.
• Oversee risk management plans for service users and carers.

Job description

Overview

The Early Intervention for Psychosis Service provides help and support to people over 14 years and under 65 years of age for up to 3 years following a first episode psychosis, or for a limited period where a person might be high risk of experiencing psychosis. The team acts as a resource to the adult mental health community, CAMHS and inpatient services, by raising awareness of the needs of this client group, and providing information and consultation about psychosis.

Responsibilities

• The post holder will lead and inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective service for service users and carers.
• Working in partnership with the team leadership group the post holder will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team.
• To lead and inspire the team to deliver a high quality and effective Early Intervention in Psychosis service for service users and carers.
• To provide clinical leadership to ensure the service will work effectively alongside other services, to manage risk and prevent hospital admission for service users with the most complex and acute needs.
• To lead, in partnership with the senior practitioner, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision processes.
• To oversee and ensure, across the team, there are effective risk management plans and strategies, for service users and carers, taking account of risks to service users, carers, the organisation, staff and the public.
• To represent the organisation in a range of settings, presenting, facilitating or explaining as appropriate and dealing with any questions or difficulties as they arise.
• To be responsible for regularly monitoring and evaluating treatment programmes for service users and carers, making appropriate clinical/practice decision in regard to ongoing needs, and offering supervision to others.
• Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

About AWP

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

Our commitment to people

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

Diversity and inclusion

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.