Deputy Team manager

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Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of 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 look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Registered Mental Health Nurse ( RMN) to work as Deputy Team Manager in the Haringey West Core Team ( HWCT ).
The successful candidate will join a strong, experienced and committed HWCT leadership team including managers and Consultant Psychiatrists providing a dynamic and supportive environment from which to lead the team.
This is an excellent development opportunity for anyone seeking to develop into team management, or for experienced deputy managers seeking to consolidate their experience in a diverse and busy adult community mental health team.
The successful applicant will be an experienced and enthusiastic practitioner, able to demonstrate flexibility in meeting competing demands whilst working under pressure and show commitment to lifelong learning. Experience of working in a community mental health setting is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

• To work in partnership with the teams' senior leadership, team members and stakeholders in the delivery of an integrated service that offers active intervention for people with complex bio-psycho-social needs and to their families and carers.
• To assist in the effective delivery of the team's core functions, and key performance indicators and lead on clinical supervision within the team.
• To lead the development of protocols, procedures, and systems to integrate practice across the borough-wide service.
• To work cohesively with senior management to provide a responsive and innovative service delivering high-quality mental health service to the people of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey and provide clinical advice and support to other professions within the mental health care setting and related statutory and non-statutory agencies.
• To provide professional leadership within HWCT and support the team manager and staff in implementing evidence-based practice and promoting practice-based evidence in psycho-social interventions.
• Support, appraise and provide formal, ongoing clinical supervision and caseload management supervision to members of the team.
• To undertake duties designed to extend clinical and managerial expertise as delegated by the manager when required. This will include deputising in the absence of the HWCT Manager.

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

Clinical Responsibilities

• To ensure the delivery of high-quality needs assessments and risk assessments within a multi-disciplinary framework with service users experiencing mental health difficulties and to provide effective and supportive interventions within the framework of Dialog+ ( training provided), Strengths Based and the Recovery Model.
• To maintain clear, comprehensive and contemporaneous clinical records on all patients in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies and to write appropriate reports, maintain records and produce correspondence in accordance with the Trust policies on Case Recording and Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
• To use and enhance Information Technology skills to directly enter client information on the Trusts electronic databases and where necessary produce reports and correspondence.
• To provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions using positive and supportive therapeutic relationships to service users and their families and carers.
• To attend meetings as organised for the effective functioning of HWCT and to Chair such meetings as directed by the team manager.
• To uphold the Trusts Equal Opportunities policies, to deliver effective and appropriate services fairly and without discrimination and to promote the principles of Diversity.

Management Responsibilities

• Provide formal, ongoing clinical supervision and caseload management and supervision to staff and students including annual appraisals and documentation to support Trainees and Assessed and Supported Year Social Workers.
• Support the team manager to ensure the efficient use of human resources ensuring safe levels of staffing, which reflect the necessary and appropriate skill mix across the team as identified by senior managers
• Participate in recruitment, selection and interviewing of staff and undertake the induction of new staff
• Facilitate service user and carer involvement in the ongoing development and evaluation of the service.
• To undertake Quality Improvement projects under the guidance of the team manager.
• Ensure systems are in place to respond promptly, appropriately and in an open manner to complaints and queries and undertake investigations and provide Management Reports in relation to complaints and Serious Incidents.

Educational Responsibilities

• Undertake teaching of qualified and unqualified staff, including students. Develop links with the universities to ensure that students are well supported during their placements and learning objectives are met.
• Leads on clinical audit within HWCT and undertakes surveys or audits as necessary and participates in clinical trials/R&D activity as required.
• Promote health and provides specialist advice/education regarding mental health to professionals, service users and the public in general.

• Receive regular, ongoing clinical and case management supervision; attend staff development training as required. To develop collaborative and positive working relationships with colleagues within HWCT and other statutory and non-statutory partners.
• To keep up-to-date with changes in Mental Health and Social Care policies and practice developments.
• To take responsibility to progress one's own professional development, through supervision and training, which will be supported by the Trusts Performance Appraisal system, and in order to maintain professional registration with the profession's ruling body.

Other Duties

• The post holder is required to undertake the duties and responsibilities of the post with due regard to confidentiality and the Trust policies on Data Protection, Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Infection Control.
• To work flexibly under the Trusts Agile Working Policy to meet the needs of the service.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the duties and not as an inflexible specification. This Job Description may, in consultation with the post holder, be amended from time to time to take into account new developments and any changes in working arrangements.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria

• RMN, RNLD, SW or OT equivalent first level registration Relevant degree or post graduate diploma/equivalent level of experience

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

• Minimum 3 years clinical experience in the community and / or hospital based services.
• Demonstrable experience at Band 6 or equivalent.
• Evidence of ability to effectively manage a community service
• Experience of delivering training to different disciplines and professions
• Experience of the Supervision process and ability to offer effective supervision to staff at different levels.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate in depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act 2005, Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Code of Practice, and Children's Act. National Service Framework
• Training and advanced skills in a specialised approach such as psycho-social interventions, dual diagnosis, personality disorder or assertive outreach, CBT
• such as psycho-social interventions, dual diagnosis, personality disorder or assertive outreach, CBT
• Knowledge of the process necessary for effective risk assessment and management
• Ability to demonstrate a creative and flexible approach to staff managing and in delivering a high standard of care.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care plans to meet needs of clients. Ability to set, monitor and evaluate standards for quality within the service
• Ability undertake evidence based interventions with people suffering from a range of mental health problems
• Knowledge of and ability to work as part of a multi-professional team as a lead clinician and role model.
• Ability to work effectively in crisis situations in order to maintain the safety of both staff and client
• Ability to teach staff and provide advice and support

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential criteria

• Understanding of and ability to develop, promote and maintain equal opportunities in all areas of work
• Ability to work flexibly Ability to travel across a geographical area and various locations within the Trust

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

• Job Description & Person Spec (PDF, 286.8KB)
• Functional Requirements PDF (PDF, 258.0KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)