Community Psychiatric Nurse Team Leader

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board; Treorchy; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health board in Treorchy is looking for a leader in community mental health to supervise nursing staff and provide exceptional patient care. The role involves managing complex cases, promoting effective team culture, and fostering partnerships. Desirable skills include leadership and mental health nursing experience, with an emphasis on Welsh language proficiency. Join a dedicated team making a positive impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Experience in line management and supervising nursing staff.
• Ability to foster relationships with partners in mental health care.
• Welsh language skills at Level 3 (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and supervision to nursing staff.
• Promote a culture of compassion and care.
• Manage a clinical caseload and complex cases.
• Respond to serious incidents and ensure learning from feedback.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Management

Evidence Based Practice

Communication

Job description

Overview

The post holder will provide leadership, line management and supervision to a team of nursing staff within a proactive and forward thinking multi-disciplinary community mental health service. Positive role modelling and risk management alongside expert delivery of evidence based mental health nursing care to service users in the community are essential components of this role.

Responsibilities

• Promote and maintain a culture of compassion and care to staff and service users.
• Actively promote the development of evidence based practice.
• Foster robust working relationships with all partners in particular Local Authority and Primary Care.
• To carry a clinical caseload and take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting all staff in the CMHT with the management of such cases.
• To respond as required to serious untoward incidents, complaints and communications regarding team issues providing feedback to the team to ensure lessons learned are shared and inform practice development.
• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
• Operate an honest and open listening culture within the team, positively inviting and responding to feedback from both staff and service users.

Qualifications / Additional Information

• Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't fluent, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
• For more information, see 'Welsh Language Guidance' in the documents right at the bottom.
• Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
• We live by our core values: We listen, learn and improve; We treat everyone with respect; We all work together as one team.
• We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.