Team Manager - Older Adults HTT

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

Services for Older Adults in North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. This includes the development of an Older Adults Home Treatment Team for the NLFT north boroughs. The post holder will manage the Older Adult Home Treatment Team covering the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.

You will be leading and managing a multidisciplinary team and working with other Older Adult Home Treatment Team and Adult Crisis Team managers to make sure that home treatment services are innovative and high-quality services which have the service users best interest at its heart.

The post holder will lead on governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.

Main duties of the job

To take operational day to day management responsibility at team level using performance management systems to ensure the effective delivery of contract activity.

Work with the Service Lead to deliver Integrated Governance requirements and be responsible for delivering governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.

To oversee the provision of expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within the MDT

To ensure clinical staff maintain accurate and up to date records.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide leadership and line management to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe clinical services.

To promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement.

To work with the Service Lead to deliver a culture and style of leadership that develops, empowers people, recognising achievement and promoting continuous development of staff and teams.

To ensure that all duties within the role are delivered in accordance with trust policy and professional registration practice. Ensuring that professional registration requirements of staff are met.

To be managed by and receive supervision from a nominated line manager, including annual review of performance as part of the appraisal system

Person specification

Qualification and Registration

Essential criteria

• Diploma or degree leading to professional Registered qualification in Mental Health or equivalent qualification.
• Current registration with a professional body
• Evidence of recent and on-going academic study and/or CPD

Desirable criteria

• Current Level 2 Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults certificates
• Master's degree in relevant field or equivalent experience

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to communicate both in verbal and written form at a high level in a range of complex areas
• Well-developed leadership skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve team members
• Evidence of effective workforce development and of using systems to ensure effective staff management (supervision, appraisal and ongoing performance management)

Experience/ Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Significant management experience in mental health service delivery
• To demonstrate an extensive and sound knowledge base in the provision of mental health services and preferred treatment methods
• Demonstrate a clear professional understanding and practical experience of the Mental Health Act and its application / use in practice.

Personal Qualities/Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Compassionate leader - approachable, visible, and open to learn
• Full driving license and access to own vehicle

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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 Spec and Job Description (PDF, 296.4KB)
• Job Spec and Job Description (PDF, 296.4KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 875.7KB)