Team Leader

NHS; Winchester; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a passionate Team Leader to manage the Specialist Alcohol Team across Hampshire. This role involves overseeing a remote team, ensuring high-quality alcohol treatment services, and enhancing the lives of service users. The position emphasizes leadership, management of recovery workers, and maintaining effective treatment standards within the team. Flexible working arrangements and comprehensive support for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working options

Comprehensive training and development

Qualifications

• Experience of working in drug and alcohol services.
• Experience of working with hospitals and primary care.
• Skills in managing remote teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day to day running of the service.
• Supervise, manage, and develop the staff team.
• Ensure high-quality, person-centred treatment is provided.

Skills

Management skills

Leadership

Partnership working

Education

Foundation Degree/HNC in related field

Job description

Are you committed to making a positive change and leading a service that empowers service users to achieve a better quality of life?

We have an exciting opportunity for passionate, enthusiastic and compassionate leader to manage Specialist Alcohol Team working remotely across Inclusion Recovery Hampshire.

Working as part of our leadership team, you will oversee a team of staff managing their own caseloads of clients, offering health support for those using alcohol, embracing the concept of recovery and providing evidence based psychosocial interventions to service users. You will have responsibility for the day to day running of the Specialist Alcohol Service you manage, ensuring that quality and effective treatment is provided to those accessing the service, and supporting and mentoring the team of recovery workers, engagement workers, administrators and trainees within the service.

In return for your skills and services, we will support you in maintaining a work-life balance with flexible working options, generous annual leave, and the opportunity to work as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team to grow and develop your talents.

Main duties of the job

Full-time Team Leader (working 37.5 hours per week) managing the Specialist Alcohol Service in Hampshire.

The vacancy is open to qualified professionals, experienced managers or individuals with leaderships skills and an understanding of alcohol treatment services, and the service covers the whole of Hampshire.

The base for this role is negotiable, however a willingness and ability to travel across Hampshire is essential.

You will be an integral part of a leadership team, making a real difference to people's lives and the wider communities in which we serve.

This job requires you to:- Provide management and leadership to a team of remote workers- Work in partnership with other professions, in particular hospitals, primary care and commissioners.- Work alongside the Inclusion Management team in ensuring service targets are met by mentoring and supervising staff. To take a lead role in service promotion and encouraging new Service User's into treatment.- Support staff in providing person centred treatment to their caseload of Service Users.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can.

We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.

Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description for further details, a summary is below:

• Be responsible for the day to day running the service, including establishing a timetable of activities for service users and rotas for staff
• Responsibility for the supervision, management and development of your staff team
• Responsibility for ensuring the service you lead provides high quality, effective and person centred treatment to those accessing the service
• Undertaking HR processes such as managing attendance, performance improvement planning and appraisals with staff
• Recruitment and induction of new staff
• Taking action to support your staff team in working towards and achieving targets as set by commissioners
• Understanding data from the work undertaken in order to support your team in their day to day work within the hub
• Promotion of Service User Involvement
• Developing and maintaining working relationships with stakeholders, partnership agencies and other organisations
• Contributing to county-wide management and governance meetings

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in drug and alcohol services
• Experience of working in partnership with other professionals, in particular hospitals and primary care
• Skills in managing remote team/workers

Qualifications

• Foundation Degree/HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies, leadership and management.

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.