Community Team Manager

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for you to develop your career.

We are looking for a Clinical Team Leader to join our Adult Community team based at Haymills House in Stowmarket.

We are looking for a new colleague who is confident to take the lead, has experience of leadership in a mental health environment and is looking to work collaboratively to grow  skills and confidence and while working with a Recovery model focus.

As the Clinical Team Leader  you will be responsible for the operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team. You will receive regular supervision and support. In addition to mandatory training there are opportunities for ongoing development as part of the Trust leadership programme.

This is an opportunity to make a lasting difference.

The team is inclusive and we welcome applications from everyone.

Main duties of the job

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Management

• Operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team.
• Line management of identified staff within the team, to include CPD, performance management, staff appraisals and relevant HR issues.
• Proactive recruitment of new staff and maintaining delegated staff wellbeing / retention.
• Lead the development of effective mental health care pathways within the team.
• Lead / support service evaluation and audit systems.
• Participate in the review /development of service wide policies and protocols.
• Support the establishment of partnerships and networks with key stakeholders.

Clinical

• accountable for own professional actions.
• Effective personal planning and organisation of daily work-load.
• Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.
• Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action,
• Managing and providing a high quality of care.
• Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.
• To attend all mandatory training as required by the Trust and to undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role.
• Initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with people using services and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
• Promote the involvement of people using services and carers in the development of the care pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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