Team Leader

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust is seeking an experienced Early Intervention in Psychosis Team Leader to provide leadership across Liverpool. The role involves working with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure quality care and implementing evidence-based practices. Candidates must have significant experience in mental health management and be able to travel between various sites. Flexible working arrangements are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical and managerial leadership in mental health.
• Understanding of Early Intervention in Psychosis services is a plus.
• Willingness and ability to travel between multiple sites.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership across the Liverpool area.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team ensuring consistent care.
• Build relationships with care providers and recognize service users' views.
• Influence clinical practice and support change.
• Operate primarily in a therapeutic role.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Managerial leadership

Knowledge of Early Intervention in Psychosis

Ability to build relationships

Job description

Overview

Early Intervention in Psychosis Team Leader - Liverpool based in Baird House. This is a community based role requiring regular travel between multiple sites. The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced leadership team in Baird House, a hub that includes two other community based mental health teams. The successful candidate will be able to access support from both the Operational Manager and their band 7 colleagues. EIT Liverpool is a well established team with a skilled multi-disciplinary group of staff including a Senior Advanced Practitioner and experienced medical leads. Our staff within the team pride themselves on delivering exceptional mental health care. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality team leadership and adhere to the national guidance standards that acknowledges the specialism of this service. There will also be an opportunity to support Transformation and the newly defined Community Mental Health Framework and leading staff to embed new ways of working to support the community we serve. The successful candidate will be supported in their role and encouraged to develop the role and their professional skills. We strongly encourage interested candidates to visit, call or spend some time with us finding out about the work and values of the team as part of the application.

To provide clinical and managerial leadership within EIT across the entire Liverpool catchment area. To work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent approach to the care of Service Users. To build effective relationships with other care providers and ensure that views of Service Users, Carers, relatives and friends are given appropriate recognition. To influence and shape evidence based clinical practice and to take a lead role in the implementation and support change. To operate in a role that is primarily therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with Service User in a variety of care settings. To adhere to the ethos, national targets and standards of EIT.

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: Ray Clucas, Hub Manager, Email: [e-mail], Telephone: [phone]

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and managerial leadership within EIT across the Liverpool catchment area.
• Lead a wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent approach to care.
• Build effective relationships with other care providers and recognise views of Service Users, Carers, relatives and friends.
• Influence and shape evidence-based clinical practice; lead and support change.
• Operate in a primarily therapeutic role, developing relationships with Service Users in various settings.
• Adhere to the ethos, national targets and standards of EIT.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Experience in clinical and managerial leadership in mental health.
• Knowledge of Early Intervention in Psychosis services is desirable.
• Ability to travel between multiple sites.

Seniority

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time