Haringey East Core Community 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 is an exciting opportunity for an existing band 8a or aspiring band 7 to gain experience of leading a busy Mental Health Community Team and locally support the Transformation to further develop the Integrated Core Community Team with new roles, including new Voluntary Care Sector provision.

You will jointly be providing overall leadership for the Service to ensure it delivers high quality client care that is integrated with other local Haringey services and will be jointly responsible for managing staff and non-staff budgets for identified areas of responsibility.

Main duties of the job

You will be the ideal person for this role if you are:

• Keen to support the transformation of Community mental health services.
• Able to bring your management experience to facilitate a high standard of responsive care within a multidisciplinary team for people experiencing a complex mental health problems.
• Passionate about providing and improving the pathways and journeys for our patients and service users at the right time and place to meet their needs.
• A registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, clinical psychologist or Social Worker working at band 7 or band 8a.
• Experienced in understanding the changing NHS environment and its implications for service improvement.
• Able to provide effective oversight of a busy community team
• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of both the Mental Health Act (1983) and Care Act 2014.
• Flexible with looking beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries and organisations to implement the new models of care aligned with this project.
• Enthusiastic with leadership skills that can influence, motivate and involve individuals and teams.
• Able to nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional Registration (Social Worker, Registered Nurse, Registered OT, Clinical Psychologist)
• First Degree

Desirable criteria

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Minimum of 5 years post- qualification experience in mental health using a range of leadership and management skills in a management role within a multidisciplinary team.
• Handling complaints Investigation
• Experience of reviewing incidents
• Experience of overseeing capability and disciplinary processes.
• Effective budget management for both staff and non-staff.

Desirable criteria

• Consultation & negotiation with commissioning authorities

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 Care Act 2014
• Risk management experience
• Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
• High level of analytical clarity
• Written and verbal skills for face-to-face work with clients, letter and report writing and multi- disciplinary negotiations and discussions
• Ability to make and maintain autonomous professional decisions
• Knowledge of audit tools and protocols

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Should include team working, interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive "can do" attitude and a positive attitude to change
• Ability to build and lead effectively a large multidisciplinary skilled, multi- faceted team
• Ability to enthuse others, co-ordinate and motivate a team
• Ability to manage conflict effectively
• Experience of recruitment and selection of staff

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Core Community Team Manager JD + PS (PDF, 254.4KB)
• NLFT Functional Requirement (PDF, 536.5KB)