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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to manage and lead the Stockport Home Treatment Team (HTT) and current STEM offer [out of hours offer]. This post will be an exciting role for an individual who has proven management potential and a
genuine desire to influence and lead clinical practice and service development within the crisis mental health pathway, working towards achieving compliance with CORE Fidelity.

This exciting opportunity is suitable for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner with recent experience in an acute mental health setting at Band 6 or above. You should enjoy working within a busy and challenging environment, and must be able to work effectively under pressure. You will
have a sound knowledge of mental illness and therapeutic interventions and be competent in independent mental health assessment. You will be
creative and innovative in your approach, and will work collaboratively with service users and their carers in the formulation of care and crisis
plans. You must demonstrate ability to effectively liaise with other mental health teams including the Access Team,A&E Liaison practitioners, Adult
Inpatient Wards, CMHTs, EIT, and Consultant Psychiatrists and a variety of external agencies.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will need to show good role modeling and strong clinical leadership skills by promoting a supportive and compassionate
approach to service users. The post holder must be an expert practitioner, and a source of expert advice to the HTT with overall responsibility for service users supported by the HTT and operational management of the multidisciplinary team
on a day-to-day basis. s

Your aim will be to improve patient experience utilising up to date knowledge and systems to accurately assess presenting clinical risks and
needs. The post holder will be competent and confident in positive risk taking and will support other mental health practitioners to develop skills in positive risk taking that will promote service user autonomy and avoid admissions which are not supported by clinical need. The post holder will
work to reduce admissions through development of effective gatekeeping processes.

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• The provision of effective clinical leadership to and management of HTT and STEM staff.
• To act as a senior point of contact for patients, their relatives and carers.
• The post holder will experience some high expressed emotions at times and will need to be able to manage severely challenging behaviour's.
• To lead on the formulation of staff rotas to ensure the most effective use of resources in relation to service user need and team activity.
• To lead on the monitoring and management of all staff sickness absence, in accordance with Trust policies.
• To ensure that all staff follow the guidelines identified in the Trust and National policies.
• To participate in the investigation of patient complaints, as per Trust Complaints procedure, aiming to settle complaints with local resolutions at team level. When unable to do so, to communicate without delay to the Community Service Manager.
• To assist in ensuring that all clinical equipment is correctly maintained and that all appropriate staff are competent in its correct application.
• To deputise for the Service Manager in their absence when requested
• To participate in business planning processes and ongoing service review and development.

Financial Responsibilities
• To act as authorised signatory and responsible for a delegated budget.
• Authorise payments up to £1000 for supplies.
• Signatory for staff expenses and payment of nurse bank.

Clinical Responsibilities
• Ensure compliance with all clinical requirements across the Home Treatment Team and safe haven offer including, assessment, care planning, provision of interventions and reviews in accordance with local and national policy and guidelines.
• To be responsible for ensuring that staff are adequately trained to utilise and manage the clinical data recording system (Paris)
• Promote the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act Codes of Practice and ensure compliance with procedures and documentation
• Review practice regularly and implement any necessary changes in line with evidence based practice
• Take responsibility to maintain the standards for the team base environment using Health and Safety and infection control standards

Quality Responsibilities
• The post holder will assist the Service Manager in ensuring that a continuous programme of quality assurance is adopted within the service.
• To assist in the analysis of patient satisfaction surveys, the identification of service deficiencies and in response, the development of remedial action plans.
• To ensure that all staff act in a professional and responsible manner at all times, acknowledging that they are representatives of the Trust.
• To ensure that the environment is conducive to the wellbeing of staff & visitors.
• Undertake and lead in audit, surveys and research and development studies for the HTT.

Professional Development and Education Responsibilities
• The post holder will be responsible for maintaining their own personal
development and will take a lead on achieving the training and educational
objectives of junior staff, including learners, in an environment which is conducive to learning.
• To take responsibility for own clinical and managerial development in support of the Service Manager.
• Have responsibility for the day to day management of the MDT, allocating work effectively.
• To participate in the annual individual performance review of all staff within the team and to assist in the formulation of personal development plans which reflect the individuals potential in meeting the service aims.
• To ensure all staff comply with their Core and Essential Training requirements appropriate to their job role.
• To ensure that all staff receive education and training in accordance with their professional registration requirements.
• To ensure that all newly qualified staff receive ongoing support, through
preceptorship, for at least six months.
• To ensure that all learner nurses have access to their identified assessor.
• To act as a mentor for learner nurses

Recruitment and Selection Responsibilities
• The post holder will coordinate and participate in the recruitment and selection of staff as required.
• To participate in employment interviews for staff vacancies, Bands 2 to 6.
• To ensure that all newly appointed staff are introduced to the team and receive a period of orientation and support to meet their individual needs.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

First level registration (RMN)
Appropriate post graduate diploma or post registration equivalent.
Evidence of Continual Professional development
IT Literate
Preparation for mentorship

Desirable criteria

Educated to degree level
Accredited skills training
ECDL
Trained to deliver psychosocial interventions

Experience

Essential criteria

People management experience
Substantial experience of working in a health or social care setting.
Experience at Band 6 and evidence of appropriate clinical management experience.

Desirable criteria

Experience of working in a range of mental health settings
Previous experience of working in a home treatment service

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Good understanding of Mental Illness.
Knowledge of treatments and interventions appropriate for individuals with acute mental health needs
Ability to demonstrate working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and CPA process.
Knowledge of current policy and guidance in relation to the development of Mental Health Services.
Understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to manage and implement change
Ability to provide leadership to the clinical team and work within a management team framework
Ability to supervise and support qualified and unqualified staff in relation to managing complex clients
Ability to manage staff and work with HR to manage disciplinary matters
Ability to supervise staff, set standards, monitor performance and enable staff to personally develop
Ability to provide a high level of professional expertise in the care of clients with complex needs.
Ability to manage high expressed emotions and severely challenging behaviours
Ability to provide appropriate education and training to qualified and unqualified staff as appropriate.
Good verbal and written communication skills, with emphasis on complex and sensitive information
Ability to complete the appropriate documentation.
Good social skills and have a positive attitude within the team and when dealing with service users, staff, carers, visitors and the public.
Ability to undertake a full range of physical interventions e.g. moving and handling to support people's personal care needs and MVA
Ability to demonstrate effective time management and disciplined self organisation
Ability to value diversity and respond constructively to discriminatory behaviour
Ability to manage difficult conversations

work related cirumstances

Essential criteria

Ability and willingness to work within the 24-hour shift system, including day and night shifts.
Ability to work unsocial hours including evenings and weekends
Ability to deal with verbal aggression.
Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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

Job Description (PDF, 134.6KB)
Personal Specification (PDF, 236.8KB)
Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pack (PDF, 588.9KB)

Home Treatment Team Manager

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