Integrated Team Manager

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

The Redbridge Community Health and Social Care Services (HASS) is an integrated service for health and adult social care, jointly provided by NELFT and the London Borough of Redbridge. They are leading the transformation of adult Community Health Services in the borough, developing new ways of working with service users based on a model of place-based care.

Redbridge Integrated Care Directorate are pleased to invite applications for the post of Integrated Team Manager in our HASS clusters.

The service has a greater focus on early intervention and prevention to deliver high quality integrated care and support to people who are over the age of 18.

This team sits within the London borough of Redbridge Adult Health and Social Care and works alongside the 3 similar Health and Social Services integrated localities and our Hospital Social Work Team.

Ideally the successful candidate will have significant operational experience with NELFT and Adult Social Care and hold a relevant professional qualification in social work or health (NMC/HCPC). It would be beneficial to have experience of working in an integrated health and social care setting and a strong understanding of how health and social care services should operate together to deliver high quality services to the people of Redbridge.

Main duties of the job

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to work at Integrated Team Manager level within the HASS and be a part of the HASS leadership team within the partnership services between NELFT NHS Foundation Trust and the London Borough of Redbridge.

The manager will take on the responsibility for the management of both LBR and NELFT services and will be responsible for the supervision of the team and working closely with the 4-locality based Integrated Teams, Hospital and First Contact Team managers

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide oversight and management of integrated provisions in accordance with the section 75 agreement.
• Report to the Head of Service or Assistant Director for NELFT to effectively lead, support and develop an integrated health and social care team.
• Deputise for the Head of Service or Assistant Director for NELFT keeping them appraised of sensitive, high-profile issues.
• Support the head of service or Assistant Director for NELFT to engage with stakeholders and commissioners to support service redesign, innovation, problem solving and development.
• Engage with other locality team leads to ensure standardised processes, quality and continuity of service across the organisations.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Professional Qualification

Essential criteria

• Registered Social Worker/Nurse/AHP

Experience

Essential criteria

• 4 years post registration expereince

Management experience

Essential criteria

• 2 years relevant experience of a senior supervisor role in a front-line health or social care setting

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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 (PDF, 583.7KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)