Team Leader - Scarborough Community Team

Team Leader - Scarborough Community Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and proactive individual to join our management team as a Team Leader and work with us in the Scarborough location supporting across our wide range of core and specialist community services.

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust aims to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care, compassion and commitment of our staff and be known as a great employer and a valued partner.

Our staff benefit from our commitment to training, regular supervision and flexible working.

We are looking for an exceptional, motivated professional with excellent communication and leadership skills, who can ensure compliance within service delivery, the best health outcomes for patients and staff, and managerial and organisational leadership support across a wide range of services.

The successful post holder will team lead designated teams from our integrated multi-disciplinary community-based services in Scarborough, as well as working alongside Team Leader colleagues across Whitby, Ryedale, and Pocklington.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications received, we reserve the right to close this advert one week after opening.

Main duties of the job

To succeed in this role, you will need to be passionate about community healthcare provision, able to tackle key priorities with enthusiasm and have the tenacity to deliver in an ever-changing environment.

Though the post is predominately non-clinical, the individual will need a clinical health professional background and be able to demonstrate a track record in successfully delivering high quality care, with significant experience in leading and managing teams and budgets as well as initiating, implementing and driving forward changes to service delivery, systems and processes.

You will be a key player in developing effective working relationships with primary and secondary care, social care colleagues, and voluntary sector services, who are an important part of our whole systems approach to service delivery.

About us

We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Live register or equivalent professional registration relevant to the post
• Postgraduate or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service areas within community health services, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion, Safeguarding Adults
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within community services
• Good IT skills e.g. knowledge of Word and Excel
• Accredited leadership/management qualification or ability to demonstrate these at an advanced level
• Working knowledge of Trust IT systems if relevant to own area of work

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
• Development of expert leadership/management skills
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
• Ability to effectively commute between all various Trust sites
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

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.