Beacon Centre Day Service Team Manager

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Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

This role is varied, interesting and crucial to ensuring excellent patient experience every step of the way. This role will support the service in ensuring patients receive a high quality of care throughout their journey with CAMHS Services.

Perform specialist personalised, assessment and higher-level discussion of young people's holistic needs, resulting in personalised care planning and evaluation of care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.

Demonstrate higher level clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning, and treatment.

support the Day Hospital Service (within Specialty).

Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements, including providing access to community support.

Establish and maintain effective communication with young people and carers / relatives.

Support young people and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.

Recognise changes in young people's condition that require the intervention of others and case manage/refer on as appropriate.

To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving young people's problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.

Main duties of the job

Leadership:
• Acts as a role model demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership to others.
• Promotes a culture that supports self-management.
• Provides specialist education and training to other professionals involved in young people's care.
• Leads the development, management and promotion of the service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.
• Embeds patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.

Innovation:
• Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
• Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem-solving.
• Instigates and manages change within a complex environment.

CLINICAL

• To participate as an effective member of the MDT and be responsible for the development and implementation of a patient centred approach to care: assessing, developing, implementing, and evaluating the care needs of patients and their careers.
• To ensure that statutory and legal requirements of care are incorporated safely within each young person's programme of care.

• To observe the requirements of the Mental Health Act 1983 ensuring the patient is fully informed of their legal position and their rights under the Act.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.

• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.

• Generous Annual Leave Allowance

• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.

• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS/ TRAINING

Essential criteria

• Professional registration, OT, NURSE, Social worker, psychologist Degree/Diploma Valid and up to date registration. Evidence of Masters level learning or prepared to work towards.

Desirable criteria

• DBT, Solution focussed and/or CBT training Motivational interviewing/ Health coaching MSc in Relevant Training to CAMHS/ Risk Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with Young People and Families with mental health and emotional crisis presentations. Ability and experience in dealing with developing and implementing systems that support clinical excellence. Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment and of involving users and carers ensuring that nursing practice is up to date.

Desirable criteria

• Experience with Lone Working Experience running a nurse led clinic. Experience in managing an Inpatient and outpatient caseload. Experience in delivering Groups and individual intervention (CBT, DBT, Motivational and

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Able to manage difficult situations with child or young people and their families that have complex mental health conditions. Ability to manage clinical risk and have an understanding of child safeguarding procedures. Effective personal management skills, including excellent time management and the ability to prioritise, delegate and problem solve. Effective leadership skills.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of project management skills. Evidence of ability to meet performance deadlines and support to ensure other meet deadlines. Effective presentation skills including use of a variety of appropriate media: power point or structured discussion/activities.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD and PS (PDF, 488.6KB)
• Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 258.0KB)