Team Lead

Leicestershire Partnership; England; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Holiday allowance 27 days

Free onsite parking

Health and wellbeing support

Staff support networks

Job summary

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Team Leader to head up the Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team in Leicester. The role involves managing up to 20 clinical staff, providing professional nursing leadership and maintaining high care standards in the community.

Based at Leicester General Hospital, the post requires driving and a commitment to ongoing professional development within a psychology- and recovery-focused service.

Qualifications

• Experience in nursing leadership or management.
• Ability to coordinate services and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication and liaison skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to 20 clinical staff with line management responsibilities.
• Provide clinical leadership and guidance across the service.
• Ensure care quality, patient safety and patient experience.
• Coordinate activities and liaise with partner agencies to deliver community rehabilitation.

Job description

Job Overview

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

This is an exciting opportunity to work as a Clinical Team Leader (CTL) within the Community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team (CERT). The team has been is well established and covers the entire Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland County. We are a Psychology and need led service focussing on delivering rehabilitation interventions in the community.

CERT is a psychology led, community mental health rehabilitation team within the enhanced rehabilitation and recovery pathway. Comprising of a multi-disciplinary team, CERT provides mental health rehabilitation focused interventions in the community for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties. We work within a recovery approach, undertaking collaborative interventions with service users, families and wider networks within the community. CERT offers service users and carers a greater choice over their care and recovery, ensuring interventions are delivered in the least restrictive setting.

As a Clinical Team Leader you will lead a team of up to 20 clinical staff, you will provide support to staff as well as full line management responsibility, you will also hold a small caseload of you own. The teams base is located at Gwendolen House, based at Leicester General Hospital. Here at CERT we have a cohesive and fun team who make coming to work a pleasure whilst ensuring the highest standards of care are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic team player, to join this growing and developing team. The role is suited to a driven and dynamic individual with a passion for mental health rehabilitation and community working. There will be opportunity for ongoing personal development for you.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths. You'll be joining an organisation with a genuine team culture built on openness, growth, and truly looking after one another.

We also offer:

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, rising with length of service
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Various Staff Support Networks

Please note- Driving is essential for this post, the core hours of the post and service are Monday to Friday 9 to 5. Fixed office space, as well as the ability to work in agile way in line with the trusts policy.

*Interviews will be held in person on 3rd November*

Contact Details

Sam Marandi, [e-mail], 07901 233886

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

The successful candidate will manage and take overall responsibility for care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality:

• Patient safety
• The effectiveness of all health care interventions
• Patient experience
• The environment in which care is delivered
• Driving improvement and ongoing development of the service

To ensure the delivery of a clinically effective service which meets the needs of individuals, families and communities in line with local and national development plans, Trust policies and procedures, being responsible for the coordination of services and to promote optimum health, self-management and effective liaison between agencies. The post holder will carry responsibility and professional and managerial accountability, which includes management of staff, budgets, quality and standards of practice of all members of the team by enhancing systems such as clinical.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.