Job overview

The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team within Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Deputy Team Leader to join their well established team. 

The West Lancashire Community Mental Health Team provides support and intervention to Adults with severe and enduring and complex mental health issues. The team offers a range of management strategies and interventions. Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach, evolving around the needs of patients, their families and significant others. 

The role involves working as a Deputy team leader in a well established team, this includes acting as a keyworker and supporting a caseload of clients with varying mental health diagnoses and needs as well as assisting the Team Manager in ensuring that leadership within the multidisciplinary team provides effective assessment, formulation, planning and monitoring of care given to service users while actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the community team in accordance with the Trust values and NMC code of conduct, HPC code.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent team working skills, who is keen to develop their knowledge and skills in this area. You should be a competent and motivated practitioner with appropriate demonstrable experience. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and therapeutic intervention in the community

As a keyworker you will work closely with people in there own homes or in the community to help them recover from their illness and improve their general quality of life. This role includes assessing patients, providing care/support, developing risk assessments, collaborative care planning, medication management and physical health monitoring, managing patient documents.  Along side becoming an advocate for the people in your care, supporting and signposting them, so they can focus on their recovery and helping them live the life they would like to live.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

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