Clinical Team Leader - Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team

Integrated Care System; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bury St Edmunds is looking for a Clinical Team Leader for the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team. The role involves leading a team to provide high-quality mental health care, ensuring compliance with policies, and developing training programs. The ideal candidate will have experience in leadership and risk management in a mental health setting. This is a permanent position with a competitive salary range between £47,810 and £54,710 per annum.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programs

Career progression

Annual leave starting at 27 days plus paid bank holidays

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
• Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management.
• An understanding of local and national health policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and leadership to staff and therapy teams.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Lead the development of training to deliver high-quality care.

Skills

Leadership in mental health

Communication skills

Risk assessment management

Education

RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or equivalent

Ongoing professional development

Job description

Clinical Team Leader - Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team

Clinical Team Leader - Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team

Are you confident in taking the lead when faced with issues?

Do you work well with people and teams?

Have you got experience of leadership in a mental health environment?

Do you have the skills to grow and maintain a confident team, with positive values and standards that strive for the best patient centred care?

If you have said yes to these questions, we have an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your career as theClinical Team Leader for the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds.

As a Clinical Team Leader you will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development to ensure the effective implementation and sustained delivery of mental health services.

You will be responsible for management of day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising within the service. In addition, you will also be responsible for the operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for their clinical / managerial supervision, as well as providing professional governance and leadership .

You will maintain compliance with key performance indicators and develop any Quality Improvement initiatives that could improve outcomes for our services and its users.

Main duties of the job

Leadership

Provide advice and leadership to staff, treatment, therapy and risk assessment and management.

Ensure any learning is embedded and sustained in the Team.

Clinical

Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures contributing to policy development via Governance processes, particularly in relation to clinical care.

Demonstrate a sound knowledge of current legislation and policy that underpins mental healthcare delivery.

Participate in clinical audit, QA and clinical governance.

Lead the development of training to deliver high quality care.

Communication

Be able to communicate with people in a way which is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.

Work effectively in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team, working across different settings as required.

Protect and maintain the confidential nature of the work at all times, both in written and verbal form.

Quality

Act consistently with legislation, policies, procedures and other quality approaches.

Maintain expert practice through further study, research, clinical practice and personal development.

Participate in supervision for both self and others

Develop a culture that improves quality and take the appropriate action when there are quality issues.

Equality and Diversity

Support and promote equality and value diversity.

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Participate in Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

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

To work within our Trusts values and behaviours - Positively, Respectfully, Together to ensure that we work to ensure compassionate and high quality care to all in our service.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or equivalent
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

Experience

• Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management
• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.

Skills

Knowledge

• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.

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.

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team

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

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

246-WSU7092852-C

Job locations

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team