Deputy Team Manager - Crisis Team South

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Deputy Team Manager for its Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team. This role involves providing clinical leadership, managing complex assessments, and engaging with patients to develop personalized care plans. Successful candidates will hold a relevant clinical qualification and should demonstrate strong communication skills and a commitment to delivering excellent care. Competitive benefits and opportunities for career progression are included.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to tailored learning and development

NHS Discount across various shops

Competitive pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Must hold a clinical qualification in Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing or Social Work.
• Experience in crisis care and management is advantageous.
• Proficient in conducting assessments and developing care plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line clinical leadership and operational management.
• Conduct complex assessments and develop evidence-based care plans.
• Engage patients in goal-setting and obtain valid informed consent.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Care planning

Effective communication

Empathy

Education

Clinical qualification in Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing or Social Work

Job description

Are you looking for a new leadership role with a growing and developing service? Or looking to take your first step into clinical management? The Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team in Buckinghamshire Mental Health Services are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Deputy Team Manager to join their team. This is an opportunity for a clinician who wants to further develop and gain their managerial skills within the urgent and crisis care pathway. To be successful, you should hold a clinical qualification in Occupational Therapy, Mental Health Nursing or Social Work.

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the 'supporting statement' element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line clinical leadership and operational management to the CRHTT multi-disciplinary team, ensuring safe delivery of assessments, care planning, and crisis interventions tailored to patient and carer needs.
• Conduct highly complex assessments, including risk evaluation, identify needs, and develop evidence-based care plans in collaboration with patients and carers.
• Communicate effectively with staff, patients, families, and carers using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools.
• Deliver interventions outlined in care plans, monitor their effectiveness, and guide/support others in implementing these interventions.
• Engage patients in goal-setting and care planning, obtain valid informed consent, and work within legal frameworks for patients lacking capacity.

Additional Responsibilities

• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people. We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you. We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team" Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent" We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Benefits

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team