Mental Health Acute Liaison Team Manager
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Job summary
Are you committed to leading and delivering quality-driven mental health services?
Do you value working positively, respectfully and collaboratively with partners in care across local health systems?
If so, we'd love you to come and work with our team!
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Team Manager (Band 7) to work within our Acute Hospital (Mental Health) Liaison Team, based on site at Scarborough General Hospital SGH).
The Team Manager will work closely with our existing Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP's) and core members of our multi-disciplinary team. You will be working at the interface between physical and psychological health, bringing your knowledge and expertise to complex discussions and decision-making together with SGH colleagues.
We support patients with a wide range of needs, including self-harm, adjustment to illness, physical and psychological co-morbidities. As there is no entrance requirement for A&E and people's perceptions of what constitutes a mental health emergency or crisis can vary, people are referred to our team with a variety of needs. For some peoplethis may even be their first contact with mental health services, making their contact with us a critical part of their journey to recovery.
Main duties of the job
The Liaison Team provide on-site 24/7 accessible and supportive mental health services to SGH. Referrals are received from A&E & wards for patients of working age and older people.
The Team Manger will be skilled at managing operational systems, whilst compassionately supporting and managing staff. The successful candidate will adopt a Monday - Friday working pattern. The post-holder will fulfil the role of primary contact for the Acute Trust and is required to build excellent relationships with SGH.
The appointable candidate will have good leadership skills and be motivated to develop the service, working together with the leadership team, to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients, providing the right care, in the right place, at the right time, by the right person.
Daily roles include:
- Management of referrals to support effective, timely care delivery
- Performance monitoring & management of the service
- To ensure that the team functions in line with the core business of the Care Group
- To build trusting, close working & supportive relationships with partners
- To be instrumental in the further development of the urgent care pathway
This role is all about collaborating with your peers to drive positive change and creating a working environment where others can thrive. It is an exciting role, that welcomesregisteredRMNs, OTs or social workers, and who possess strong mental health assessment and therapeutic skills.
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information about this position and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Please take special effort to communicate how you meet the person specification within your application.
For further information please contact:
Stacey Pollington
Service Manager, Mental Health Services for Older People for Scarborough Whitby & Ryedale
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information about this position and to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Please take special effort to communicate how you meet the person specification within your application.
For further information please contact:
Stacey Pollington
Service Manager, Mental Health Services for Older People for Scarborough Whitby & Ryedale
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work.
- Leadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Post-graduate diploma in a relevant area.
- Clinical Supervisor.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Certificate in teaching & assessing in clinical practice as appropriate to own profession
Desirable
- Non-medical prescriber.
Experience
Essential
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act) and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
Desirable
- Budget Management and Financial Standing Instructions.
- Working knowledge of the importance and application of HR Policies and Procedures.
Skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate how the candidate provides effective leadership.
- Demonstrates an ability to work positively and collaboratively in partnership with external agencies
- Demonstrable ability to manage change effectively.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work.
- Leadership or management qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Post-graduate diploma in a relevant area.
- Clinical Supervisor.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
- Certificate in teaching & assessing in clinical practice as appropriate to own profession
Desirable
- Non-medical prescriber.
Experience
Essential
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Good understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act) and its application in practice.
- Good understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
- Detailed understanding of Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
Desirable
- Budget Management and Financial Standing Instructions.
- Working knowledge of the importance and application of HR Policies and Procedures.
Skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate how the candidate provides effective leadership.
- Demonstrates an ability to work positively and collaboratively in partnership with external agencies
- Demonstrable ability to manage change effectively.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Additional information
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
Employer details
Employer name
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Scarborough General Hospital
Woodlands Drive
Scarborough
YO12 6QL
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