Community Team Leader

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; St Albans; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider is seeking a Community Team Leader in St Albans. This full-time role involves supporting a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality child and adolescent mental health services. Candidates must have relevant professional registration and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. The position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of children and families, and includes comprehensive training and support.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional registration as per person spec.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary team working.

Responsibilities

• Lead the service ensuring high-quality care is delivered.
• Act as a care coordinator ensuring client progress.
• Contribute to research, audit, and evaluation.

Skills

Communication skills

Team leadership

Problem-solving

Education

NMC registration as Mental Health Nurse

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

CYPMHS West Herts are looking to recruit an inspirational Community Team Leader who is a highly skilled, motivated practitioner with the appropriate professional qualification and experience to work in the multi-disciplinary team. The post is offered on a full-time 37.5 hours permanent basis. The Community Team Leader is required to work across two sites, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead. We are a vibrant team working with children and young people presenting with emotional and behavioural needs including complex trauma and attachment difficulties impacting on emotional distress and mental health. You will need to have an in-depth understanding of neurodiversity and be able to identify reasonable adjustments to support children and young people using our service. We would like to recruit a professional who shares our Trust values that are Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful and Professional and our passion to make a real difference in the lives of children, young people and their families who entrust their lives in us.

You would work as a team, bring enthusiasm and be innovative in your clinical practice and leadership style. Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of. Applicants who subscribe to the DBS update service are able to present a valid DBS certificate instead of requiring a new check.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team providing child and adolescent mental health services in line with the principles and practice of CYP-IAPT. As Team Leader you will work alongside the CYPMHS Operational Manager and enhanced Clinical Team Leader in leading the service and ensuring that the highest quality of care is delivered to children, young people and families. You'll be part of the Quality Leadership Team and have the opportunity to influence Team and Service development. You are expected to have a good understanding of Key Performance Indicators and managing throughput based on CAP, a service transformation model used in CYPMHS. To work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. This includes abilities to understand and offer therapeutic interventions to a variety of family forms including single parents, same-sex couples and their families, extended families, foster carers and people with mental health difficulties. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, ensuring provision of a care plan, taking responsibility for initiating, planning and review of the client's care, ensuring the work of others involved and communicating effectively with the child/the carer/professional as appropriate, monitoring the progress of multi-disciplinary interventions. To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration. The post holder will be autonomously responsible for assessing and delivering intervention to children, young people and families in relation to a range of highly complex emotional, psychological and behavioural problems within the context of CAPA (The Choice and Partnership Approach). The post holder will be accountable to the Operational Manager for aspects of service delivery, bringing together all component parts to ensure robust patient safety, improved service user experience, clinical outcomes, quality and performance standards. S/he will deputise for the Operational Manager when required. The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical/professional supervision of senior clinicians of own and other professions. The post holder will support the clinical development of team members to provide services that are accessible and responsive to needs. To promote participation of service users and carers in their own care and in the planning and development of services. The post holder will contribute to research, audit and evaluation for service development. The post-holder will provide clinical/professional supervision to trainees on placement, more junior staff of the same discipline and multi-disciplinary colleagues for purposes of training and continuing professional development. To have oversight of referrals into the Service including supporting the team in Choice assessments, Trusted assessments, GID assessments, Duty Team, Care of Waiters and Team meetings. To take clinical and line management responsibility for clinical staff ensuring they deliver a high quality, young person focused service. Work in partnership with Local Authority Colleagues - attending strategic multi-agency LA meeting, complex needs panels. All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional registration as per person spec
• Evidence of CPD
• NMC registration as Mental Health Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Specialist training in an appropriate area and knowledge of CAPA and CYP-IAPT, post qualification experience in a CAMHS team or related area, or several years' experience prior to qualification, with experience of working with moderate to severe mental health problems and knowledge of a range of clinical interventions with children/adolescents and their carers/families.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, and inter-agency collaboration and some knowledge of social care services and legislation
• Knowledge of child development, child and adolescent mental health and an understanding of a range of theoretical approaches
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Abilities to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Good general knowledge of the literature and research concerning mental health interventions with children, particularly the clinical effectiveness of such interventions
• Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures
• Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc, Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Ability to work therapeutically with young people and their families
• Ability to work as a fully participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members' contributions
• Positive problem solving approach, Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
• IT skills; include use of Microsoft Office and Outlook
• UK visa sponsorship eligibility considerations are described; you must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of