Mental Health Team Lead

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Mental Health Lead to work within the Step Forward Team in South Sefton. This role focuses on delivering integrated care by leading a team and collaborating across primary and secondary care settings. The ideal candidate will have senior leadership and clinical skills, and a commitment to providing high-quality mental health services. Flexible working requests are considered.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams within mental health services.
• Strong understanding of primary and secondary care interfaces.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Step Forward Team in delivering integrated mental health care.
• Develop partnerships with colleagues across care sectors.
• Manage routine assessments and triaging of referrals into services.

Skills

Senior leadership skills

Clinical skills

Collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Relevant degree in mental health or related field

Job description

This role will be based in South Sefton.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Step Forward Team as a Mental Health Lead working across the local division footprint. The post will be based on a neighbourhood level, delivering a population based approach to care focusing on prevention and early intervention for mental health.

We are looking to recruit x 1 fixed term/ secondment Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner to cover maternity leave within the Step Forward Team and be part of and lead the development of the service. Using senior level leadership and clinical skills you will input to provide seamless, integrated, responsive and holistic care throughout each service users individual journey.

The role will focus on the interface between Primary and Secondary care, adopting a collaborative care model to ensure that we provide access to rapid evidence-based clinical input and specialist clinical support when appropriate.

You will be working in primary care settings working with specific PCN's, Integrated Care Teams and with Community Mental Health Teams /other specialist teams.

The post requires working autonomously and as part of a team. Resilience and adaptability in approach are expected as well as the ability to offer and receive support from colleagues within the team. You will be expected to spend time developing good working relationships with colleagues across Primary and secondary care, VCSFE and local networks to facilitate collaborative integrated working.

The Step Forward Mental Health Team are also responsible for the triaging and routine assessments of all local referrals into mental health services.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carys Sergeant Job title: Step Forward Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07814456216

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