Team Manager

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a leader for their Mental Health Support Teams, responsible for operational management, coordination, and monitoring outcomes for children and young people. This role demands strong leadership and decision-making skills in a dynamic mental health environment, fostering improvements in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing mental health support teams.
• Ability to coordinate operational processes effectively.
• Commitment to outcome monitoring for service improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of Mental Health Support Teams.
• Ensure effective referral and case allocation processes.
• Monitor clinical risks and safeguarding issues.

Skills

Operational decision making

Team management

Data collection and audit

Job description

• Be responsible and lead the day-to-day management and line management to practitioners within MHST's which will include trainee band 4 and Band 5 EMHP's, Band 6 and band 7 Senior Mental Health Practitioners
• Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of a range of operational processes within the team such as referral and case allocation, caseload management, regular review and proactive monitoring of intervention within the MHST's including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
• Demonstrate commitment to ensuring routine outcome monitoring is embedded within the development of the MHST's in order to demonstrate improvements in outcomes for children, young people and parents/carers.
• Be able to plan and deliver against key milestones.
• Provide day to day operational management and leadership to the Mental Health Support Teams.
• Demonstrate enhanced competence in operational decision making.
• Collect and collate data and information effectively for the purpose of audit, and service performance.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.