Team Leader - Inpatients - New Dove Ward

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Radlett; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK is seeking an experienced Team Leader to oversee high-quality nursing care within an innovative acute inpatient service. The role involves providing clinical leadership and support to a dedicated team, ensuring the delivery of personalized care that involves families and carers. This position offers various training opportunities and a generous holiday allowance alongside comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Leadership and management training opportunities

High cost allowance supplement

27 days holiday rising to 33 days

One of the UK's best pension schemes

Comprehensive health and wellbeing services

Special leave for family and personal reasons

NHS Car Lease Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership in mental health settings.
• Commitment to delivering personalized high-quality care.
• Ability to engage with families and carers effectively.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage high-quality nursing care.
• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to nursing staff.
• Ensure effective nursing assessments and care provision.
• Act as a positive clinical lead within the service area.
• Manage and develop the inpatient service team.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Compassionate care

Cultural competence

Trauma-informed care

Neurodiversity understanding

Job description

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming opening of Dove Ward, a new Acute Assessment and Short Stay Treatment Unit (AATU) offering care and treatment for up to 28 days. Dove Ward will expand our Adult Acute and Urgent Care services, providing an opportunity to shape and lead an innovative, compassionate, and recovery-focused environment from the very beginning. We are seeking an experienced, resilient and motivated Team Leader who demonstrates our Trust values of Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful and Professional in everything they do. You will be an inclusive and compassionate clinical leader, committed to delivering personalised, high-quality care to women accessing acute inpatient support, and to ensuring their families and carers feel involved, reassured and heard. This role offers the chance to lead a team in a forward thinking service grounded in three core principles:

• Trauma-informed and harm-aware inpatient care
• Culturally competent and anti-discriminatory practice
• Autism-informed and neurodiversity affirming care

Key Responsibilities

• have oversight and 24-hour responsibility and accountability for the provision and management of high quality nursing care and the treatment of service users within the inpatient service area.
• provide effective clinical leadership to ensure all nursing staff receive the appropriate supervision and support in conjunction with an agreed professional development plan
• ensure effective nursing assessment and provision of a high standard of care within the inpatient service area
• act as a positive clinical lead and role model within the inpatient service area
• manage and develop the inpatient service team who can meet the changing needs of the service user.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.

In return, we can offer you:

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (max £2,198 per annum)
• 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
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme