Community Team Manager *with 3k Welcome bonus*

NHS; Stowmarket; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider is looking for a Community Team Manager in Stowmarket. In this role, you will ensure operational management of mental health services for young adults. Ideal candidates should have strong leadership capabilities and experience working in mental health settings. The position offers competitive salary and a rewarding work environment with opportunities for progression.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression opportunities

Annual leave starting at 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience at a senior clinical level with staff management and supervision.
• Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment.
• Demonstrated experience in working with young people or adults in community mental health.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional governance and leadership to ensure high quality service.
• Allocate work to optimize team resources for service users' needs.
• Ensure all staff are trained and supervised effectively.

Skills

Competent and effective treatment skills

Care planning skills

Leadership in a Mental Health care environment

Multi-disciplinary teamwork experience

Education

Nursing Degree or equivalent

Ongoing professional development

Higher degree or post graduate certificate in clinical practice

Job description

Community Team Manager *with 3k Welcome bonus*

This is an exciting opportunity to join East Suffolk, Young Adults Mental Health Services' Team (YAMHS) who work with Young Adults age of 18 up to 25 years old.

East Suffolk CFYP has established Young Adults pathway and Clinical Treatment Pathways to support the service provision.

The Community Team Manager for Central YAMHS will be responsible for the operational management of the service delivery within the service. The successful post holder with be supported by a Community Matron and Operational Manager to ensure we provide the highest quality care. There are a range of leadership and training opportunities available to support knowledge and experience development and career ambitions. The Central YAHMS team links closely with the East Suffolk YAMHS Team and East CAMHS teams providing peer and a clinical support framework.

The successful candidate will have experience of working with young people or adults in community mental health, including experience of working with primary and secondary care and the VCSE. We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team, if you have a passion for providing safe and effective care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As the Community Team Manager you will provide professional governance and leadership within your team to ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers.

• You will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure service users and carers needs are met and monitor the team's contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the Trust.
• To provide visible leadership, promoting a values based culture and acting as a role model within the environment.
• Responsible for leading and managing the team, ensuring they are suitably trained, informed and competent to carry out the full range of duty and that there is a clear processes in place for regular and effective supervision, appraisal, objective setting and personal development planning.
• Responsible for ensuring safe staffing levels are maintained according to service budget.
• Responsible for ensuring processes are in place to allocate new caseloads and efficient use of resources to ensure caseloads and the management of caseloads remain safe.
• Ensuring care is delivered in a patient centred framework involving service users, families and carers.

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.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• 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.

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!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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* Previous applicants need not apply *

***This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3000 for external staff only. This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment***

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Nursing Degree or equivalent, Dip SW, or Dip OT, or equivalent or HCPC registered
• Ongoing professional development, Higher degree or post graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice - Post basic teaching qualification - ILM certificate in management or equivalent
• Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management / supervision experience
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development

Skills

• Competent and effective treatment skills
• Care planning skills

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)