Team Manager CRHTT

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for Adults (CRHTT), providing clinical leadership on the matters relating to mental health interventions and line manage the mental health staff.
• Clinically supervise mental health practitioners within the CRHTT to ensure that there is excellent communication and planning for mental health interventions across the team.
• Ensure systems are in place to receive and prioritise mental health referrals to the team and delegation to staff members with the level of skill and competence required to meet patient need.
• Lead on the assessment and care planning/ interventions for patients whose needs may frequently be complex and multi-factorial in nature, collaborating with the integrated team, Advanced Practitioners/ medical colleagues, social services and other stakeholders involved in the transfer of care.
• Engage proactively with key stakeholders (including for example General Practitioners, Advanced Practitioners, the Integrated Locality Teams, specialist services, Social Services, independent/ private sector providers, from within and beyond the organisation) to identify patients who require supportive intervention and case management to prevent avoidable hospital admission and enable those individuals to remain in their own home environment.
• Negotiate the timely transfer home for those patients whose presentation does not require them to remain within or transfer to the acute/community hospital environment.
• Work in collaboration with the integrated community team to provide information, prepare patients and their families/ carers for changes in the patients' condition.
• Prioritise and manage own workload to ensure responsive care/interventions by staff with the level of skill and competence to meet patient need and provide advice and support to team members regarding the care/ management plan.
• Undertake assessments and reviews for appropriate patients; being responsible for ensuring case management plans are in place; have been delivered; and complete relevant documentation.
• Ensure own leadership style facilitates effective communication, collaboration and motivation of staff and partners to achieve effective transfer of care.
• To assess, receive and review data regarding patients who regularly attend/ are admitted to acute care, liaise with the patients; and relatives/ carers as appropriate; and utilise tools such as Risk Stratification to enable the identification of appropriate patients
• It is a condition of employment that you are currently a registered professional and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
• To work with the area mental health lead and peer group to develop and maintain countywide management systems to demonstrate effective delivery of integrated care

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Level 1/and or equivalent AHP qualification.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrate continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Relevant qualifications in mental health e.g. Non-medical Prescribing
• Management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate effective liaison with care providers, voluntary and statutory partners.
• Proven record of experience and achievement in mental health assessment, care of adults and older people
• Evidence of effective leadership management in multi-disciplinary teams
• Knowledge of common mental health conditions effecting adults and older people.

Desirable criteria

• Budget management
• Managing across sites

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Experience of clinical supervision and leadership
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and in writing.
• Ability to influence and negotiate

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential criteria

• Understands and adheres to the principles of confidentiality.
• Accepts responsibility and professional accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others
• Recognises the limits of own authority within the role
• Seeks and uses professional leads/ knowledge base and in partnership support staff appropriately
• Demonstrates professional curiosity.

Other

Essential criteria

• Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
• Encourages others to express themselves openly
• Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress.
• Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and space for development
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check and takes constructive action and calms others down.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people's mental health services;
• Children's community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a 'Red List' country.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

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, 384.6KB)
• CPFT Values (PDF, 114.7KB)
• CPFT Mindful Employers (PDF, 51.3KB)
• CPFT Accommodation (PDF, 296.6KB)