Deputy Team Leader

LSCft; Ormskirk; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) invites applications for a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader in the West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team. You will join a multidisciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community, acting as a keyworker and managing a caseload of adults with complex mental health needs.

The role involves supporting the Team Manager, promoting teamwork, and ensuring safe, effective care planning, risk assessment, and

Qualifications

• Core professional registration as RMN or state-registered OT/SW.
• On-going registration with professional body.
• Post-registration/post-grad qualification or equivalent level in skills development.

Responsabilités

• Act as Deputy Team Leader in the community multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide assessment, planning, and therapeutic interventions.
• Manage a caseload of adults with complex mental health needs and act as keyworker.

Connaissances

Core professional registration

Team leadership

Assessment & planning

Formation

Post-registration qualification

Description du poste

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well‑being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long‑term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader to join their well established team.

The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others.

The role involves working as a Deputy team leader in a well established team, this includes acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses and needs as well as assisting the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning and monitoring of care given to service users while actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community

As a keyworker you will work closely with people in there own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents. Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. We also particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi‑time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Core professional registration as Registered Mental Health Nurse or state registered O.T or S/W qualification
• On-going registration with professional body
• Post registration / post grad qualification or equivalent level in skills and development

Knowledge

• An understanding and awareness of the NHS Plan, NSF and other relevant documentation
• Knowledge of severe, enduring and complex mental health problems and risk assessment used in relation to these
• Ability to manage time and workload

Experience

• Experience of supervision and management of staff
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs

  Employer certification / accreditation badges

  You must have appropriate UK professional registration.