Operational Team Lead

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider in Gillingham is looking for an experienced operational leader to manage a multi-disciplinary team in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. The ideal candidate will have leadership experience, be HCPC registered, and have specific knowledge in early psychosis management. This role will require collaboration, strong data analysis, and staff performance oversight. Join a committed team dedicated to improving mental health outcomes for the community.

Qualifications

• Registered as a CPN or Occupational Therapist with HCPC.
• Leadership experience required.
• Experience in Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
• Manage and monitor staff performance and service delivery.
• Collaborate with leadership teams for effective patient care.

Skills

Previous leadership experience

Operational expertise in early psychosis

Ability to monitor and analyze data

Education

HCPC registered CPN or Occupational therapist

Job description

Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.

To provide operational leadership and expertise to a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who often work alone to ensure the timely delivery of a safe and effective service to the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service for people aged 14-65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis.

To ensure systems and processes exist to support staff performance in accordance with Trust objectives, report on and contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and audit of the performance and clinical practice of the locality service.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure systems and processes exist to support staff performance
• Work collaboratively as part of a dynamic leadership team and be accountable for teams' performance, operational delivery of safe and effective care and budget management in Early Intervention for Psychosis Services for those between 14 -65 years of age
• Responsible for the strategic management of targets and performance, including waiting time and caseload management, day to day operational management which includes staff management such as wellbeing, sickness, absences, e-rostering, governance and financial management.
• In addition, the main duties of the role will include; process and change management, ensuring engagement of the full Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• Monitor and analysis of data
• Provision of Managerial Supervision and Appraisal.

About us

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

Job responsibilities

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

To provide operational leadership and expertise to a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians who often work alone to ensure the timely delivery of a safe and effective service to the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service for people aged 14-65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. To support delivery of the At Risk Mental State (ARMS) Pathway as outlined in the ARMS operational policy.

To ensure systems and processes exist to support staff performance in accordance with Trust objectives, report on and contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and audit of the performance and clinical practice of the locality service.

Provides operational leadership to a team of clinical staff at band 6 and below

Has an operational/managerial presence and is able to demonstrate operational expertise, specific to people with early psychosis

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

Person Specification

• B6
• HCPC registered as a CPN or Occupational therapist
• Previous leadership experience
• Previous experience within EIP

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.