Team Manager- North Islington Rehabilitation & Recovery Team

Job overview

Job overview The North Islington Rehabilitation and Recovery team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the service as a Team Manager.

This is a secondment for 6 months

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be a qualified and registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist. You will have extensive experience working in a community setting with individuals experiencing psychosis and of working in partnership with their families and their wider support network. The successful applicant will be expected to provide strong clinical leadership, with an emphasis on service development, partnership working and risk management. The post involves providing clinical and line management to staff, chairing clinical meetings, and allocating work to the team. There will be a strong focus on meeting local performance targets as well as meeting national Key Performance Indicators.

The successful applicant will be well supported by the Service Manager and the wider Divisional Management Team. Applicants are advised the selection process will comprise of a written test and interview.

For further details / informal visits contact: Dave Fearon Head of Service  on 07810 057 793

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To take operational day to day management responsibility at team level
• to ensure effective and safe service delivery.
• To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including Dialog +, records management, health and social care data entry, practice development, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints, safeguarding and risk assessments.
• To provide leadership and line management to the team and support them in delivering high quality, outcome focussed care.To promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dave Fearon Job title:  Service Manager Email address:  [email protected] Telephone number 07970 404 620