Living Well Team Manager - Tameside

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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:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. 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

Living well Tameside is looking for a Team manager who is passionate about delivering excellent mental health services and can support and enable the team to achieve their potential.

The Living Well MDT offers an approach to supporting people with mental health conditions, widening the front door to support better access and ensuring closer working between primary and secondary care mental health services.

The team works with individuals to co-ordinate access by identifying need and support introductions and will be a conduit between Primary Care and other agencies ensuring warm introductions and smooth seamless journeys.

The national strategic direction within the structure of Primary Care Network is to employ a wider range of health professionals to manage the increasing demand.

The role will include leading work to collaboratively connect across organisation, national and service boundaries to improve access to offers relevant to people's needs, ensuring support happens in the community and makes usage of people's local and personal resources

Main duties of the job
• Support the management of the Tameside Living Well MDT providing clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to all staff in line with relevant clinical pathways as outlined in the operational procedures.
• Providing clinical leadership and expertise to inform identification of people's needs and ensuring the co-production of personalised care plans to support the delivery of high quality, brief support.
• Supporting individuals to identify their needs and ensure they can access the support they need, when they need it.
• Provide support and care for individuals referred to the Tameside Living Well MDT and co-ordinate the assessment process.
• To work independently and autonomously and deputise for Senior Management when required.

Please refer to the job description and person spec for full details.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To manage the workload of the Tameside Living Well MDT, ensuring systems are in place to enable effective and efficient performance.
• Ensure implementation of the service working procedures as well as managerial and professional policies.
• To effectively manage staff and provide managerial supervision and annual personal development plan in accordance with trust policies.
• To provide effective leadership to the team within a high pressure environment, managing own emotions and those of others.
• To support the Senior Manager to work with and monitor performance indicators ensuring data quality is maintained.
• To ensure professional supervision systems are in place
• To participate in the recruitment and appointment of staff within agreed HR procedures.
• To manage disciplinary and grievance matters in line with trust policies and procedures.
• To chair MDT and team meetings, reviews, case conferences, planning meetings as required.
• To work in partnership with other statutory, independent sector and other agencies, in the effective discharge of the duties of the post.
• To monitor and review health and safety of staff, service users and to provide regular monitoring reports to line manager.
• To manage staff sickness through the Managing Attendance policy/procedures and to provide regular monitoring reports to the line manager.
• Establish quality standards relating to service user and carer experience and establish systems to monitor and audit these standards.
• To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints in accordance with trust policies.

Please refer to job description and person spec for full details.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) / Social Worker / OT with current registration
• Postgraduate diploma or equivalent level of experience
• Completion of Preparation for Mentorship / Practice Teacher / Fieldwork Educator qualification or willingness to complete
• Evidence of ongoing / recent CPD
• Previous leadership experience

Desirable criteria

• Brief psychosocial interventions
• Non-Medical Prescribing • AMHP / willing to undertake
• MSc

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial post registration experience
• Proven experience of working with clients with complex needs
• Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care with complex cases
• Experience of working to objectives and meeting deadlines, within a performance management framework
• Experience of providing day- to-day clinical leadership and operational management
• Experience of supervising junior staff

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within acute mental health service.
• Experience of managing budgets
• Experience of working in community settings

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of current mental health legislation and guidance in relation to Safeguarding and Vulnerable Adults
• Knowledge of mental health / risk management processes
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection issues Comprehensive
• understanding of deliberate self-harm and appropriate management strategies
• Display a good understanding of clinical governance and quality improvement
• Be competent in developing and delivering training packages relating to mental health
• Overview and knowledge of the range of interventions and services that meet the needs of all service users referred to the service.

Desirable criteria

• Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
• Ability to manage own emotions and those of others
• Evidence of well-developed comprehensive mental health assessment skills
• Evidence of well-developed risk assessment and management skills
• Evidence of well-developed team leadership and management skills
• Evidence of effective change management skills
• Evidence of the ability lead, motivate and manage a group of experienced staff
• Be competent in developing and delivering training packages relating to mental health
• Ability to inspire others and lead collaboratively

Desirable criteria

• Experience and / or qualification in the provision of clinical supervision to junior team members
• Skilled in the area of audit or research
• Experience in chairing professional meetings

Work Related Circumstances

Essential criteria

• 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

• Living Well Team Manager Tameside JD (PDF, 368.4KB)
• Living Well Team Manager Tameside PS (PDF, 440.6KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)