Deputy Team Leader

NHS; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families, and significant others.

The role involves working as a Deputy Team Leader in a well-established team. This includes acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses and needs, as well as assisting the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning, and monitoring of care given to service users while actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence, and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code. As a keyworker, you will work closely with people in their own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management, physical health monitoring, and managing patient documents. You will also become an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live.

Main Duties of the Job

1. To actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence, and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code.
2. To assist the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning, and monitoring of care given to service users.

About Us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria, and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working. We believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and well-being. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Job Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Core professional registration as Registered Mental Health Nurse or state registered O.T or S/W qualification.
• On-going registration with professional body.
• Post registration/post grad qualification or equivalent level in skills and development.
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.

Knowledge

• An understanding and awareness of the NHS Plan, NSF, and other relevant documentation.
• Ability to manage time and workload.
• Demonstrates an ability to motivate self and others.
• Knowledge of severe, enduring, and complex mental health problems and risk assessment used in relation to these.
• Knowledge of common physical health conditions.
• IT Skills.
• Understanding and knowledge of physical and mental health promotion.

Experience

• Experience of supervision and management of staff.
• Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of assessing, planning, implementing, and reviewing care needs.
• Experienced in acting as a mentor/assessor of student staff.
• Experience of CPA Care Coordinator role.
• Significant experience of working as a band 6 clinician in a community.

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust