Focused Support Team Manager - Learning Disability

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the 'Supporting Documents' heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the 'Candidate Essentials Guide' that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how 'we care for you as you care for others'. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We're looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Learning Disability Nurse
• Evidence of professional registration and continued professional development

Desirable criteria

• Management/Leadership Qualification
• Graduate
• Teaching/assessing qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a Team Leader role
• Line Management experience
• Evidence of good organisational and planning skills
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
• Implementation of audit/research recommendations
• Experience of change management
• Knowledge of local and national issues within Nursing Awareness of budgetary control
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and with multidisciplinary teams including and external partners
• Understanding and knowledge of current legalisation relating to speciality

Desirable criteria

• Teaching or lecturing internal/external venues
• Experience of children and young people's mental health care
• Experience of working with children and families within speciality in a hospital environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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/PS (PDF, 408.6KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 933.6KB)
• Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)