Team Leader

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT); Ware; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in Ware seeks a Team Leader to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service. This role involves collaboration with a multidisciplinary leadership team, ensuring high standards of practice, and delivering essential mental health services. The ideal candidate should be an experienced mental health clinician with excellent assessment skills and a passion for quality improvement. Competitive benefits include 27–33 days of holiday, training opportunities, and the NHS Car Lease Scheme.

Benefits

5% high cost allowance supplement

27 days holiday rising to 33

Excellent pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car.
• Experience in a mental health clinician role is required.
• Candidates should embrace change and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Community Mental Health Services Manager.
• Ensure highest standards of practice and service delivery.
• Deliver services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health.

Skills

Excellent assessment and risk management skills

Skilled and intuitive communicator

Experience in leadership

Education

Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced mental health clinician (Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist)?

Do you enjoy working in a fast pace, supportive team environment where no two days are ever the same?

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?

We are seeking to recruit a Team Leader to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in Ware, South East Hertfordshire.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Our team is based in Ware

You must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

The Successful Candidate Will

• work in collaboration with the Community Mental Health Services Manager and a multidisciplinary leadership team
• ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery
• deliver the services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health
• be an experienced mental health clinician
• have excellent assessment and risk management skills
• embrace and drive change and innovation
• be skilled and intuitive communicator with experience of providing leadership

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to move into their first management role or for an experienced manager who wishes to take a change in direction and who can take the service forward with enthusiasm and a passion for continuous quality improvement.

In Return, We Can Offer You

• 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
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (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 4000 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. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

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!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Jackie Stonebrook
Job title: Service Line Lead
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07484460910