Team Leader

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Bexhill-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider seeks a Team Leader to manage a multi-disciplinary early intervention in psychosis service. The successful candidate will ensure high standards of practice, oversee staff deployment, and engage in continuous quality improvement, contributing positively to service user care.

Benefits

Leadership and management training opportunities

5% high cost allowance supplement

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

NHS pension scheme

Free Pilates lessons

Comprehensive health and wellbeing services

Special leave for family reasons

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Must possess a full valid driving licence.
• Experience working in mental health services.
• Ability to manage and lead a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage health and social care delivery.
• Oversee staff distribution based on team experience.
• Engage in continuous quality improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Teamwork

Quality Improvement

Education

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

Job description

Are you looking for your next development opportunity to move into a leadership role?

Are you a creative, reflective, and flexible Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, or Occupational Therapist with a passion for working with people experiencing psychosis for the first time, committed to delivering personalised and meaningful care?

If so, read on to find out what the role entails and apply to join a dynamic and evidence-based service making a difference in people's lives.

This is an opportunity to work in collaboration with the EIP Service Manager and EIP service leadership colleagues to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery.

To provide day-to-day management, leadership, and supervision to a multi-disciplinary early intervention in psychosis service.

The Team Leader will manage nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, Band 5 mental health practitioners, and STaR Workers, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through effective deployment of these staff. She/he may also maintain a clinical role depending on service need.

They will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of EIP policies and procedures, ensuring in collaboration with other professional colleagues that professional practice meets standards as set by NHSE, HPFT, and/or professional statutes and bodies.

You must hold a full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential.

The Successful Candidate Will

1. Plan, prioritise, and manage the delivery of health and social care assessment, care management, and treatment service to service users within the EIP service area.
2. Oversee referrals and ensure that there is an even and appropriate distribution to work across the team, based on the experience of team members.
3. Ensure that there are adequate staff numbers organised appropriately around service user needs and to incorporate this into rota planning.
4. Ensure that risks relating to service users' unmet needs and to the work environment are assessed and managed appropriately.
5. Ensure that all team members know and understand their role in risk assessment and management.
6. Provide operational supervision and, in conjunction with the Consultant Social Worker (social care) and Nurse Consultant, ensure the provision of clinical caseload supervision to all team members.
7. Engage in continuous quality improvement.

In Return, We Can Offer You

• Leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Free Pilates lessons
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

HPFT is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

Our Trust Values Are

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families, and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Eleanor Atkins
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: [e-mail]

Mary Ingram

Service Line Lead

Email: [e-mail]