Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-3886
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Little Plumstead Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 To receive the £3000 annual R and R monies. Paid monthly
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
To deliver a high-quality service working with service users and staff to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service need.
The post holder will have oversight and 24-hour responsibility and accountability for the provision and management of high-quality care and the treatment of service users within the Broadland Clinic at Little Plumstead Hospital.
The role will provide effective leadership to ensure the staff teams receive appropriate management supervision and support whilst ensuring professional/clinical supervision is in place to meet agreed professional development plans.
Furthermore, the post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining team systems and processes for the effective operation of the team, including outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
Main duties of the job
• To ensure effective assessments, recovery focused and collaborative care planning and goal setting are in place and that the team provide a high standard of individualised care within the inpatient service area
• To act as a positive professional lead and role model within the inpatient service area
• To manage and develop the inpatient service team to effectively meet the changing individual needs of service users
• To set and monitor care standards for the inpatient service area and ensure that all staff are working to agreed plans of care for individual service users.
• To ensure the day to day running of the service area is maintained to a high standard
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To ensure a person centered, collaborative and enabling approach to service user care, based on the Trust’s Recovery Principles.
• To ensure the safe usage, storage and maintenance of equipment and materials within the inpatient service area.
• To communicate electronically and verbally with the Senior managers and clinicians, external agencies, staff, service users and carers in a timely manner.
• To ensure all nursing staff are updated on all aspects of medicines management.
• To ensure that service user records and documentations are kept in accordance with the Data Protection Act, Trust and NMC/Professional registration policies and guidelines.
• To act as a role model in the delivery of care and uphold public confidence.
• To maintain a personal and professional profile in accordance with Post Registration Educational Practice (PREP) or Continuing Professional Development as per professional registration requirements.
• To promote and participate in multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment/care
• To maintain a therapeutic and enabling environment consistent with the physical and mental wellbeing of service users, carers and staff, using a Recovery approach and encouraging appropriate co-production in relation to service delivery and planning.
• To promote learning opportunities for staff working in the inpatient service area.
• To provide managerial supervision to the Charge Nurses/staff nurses in the inpatient service area and ensure clinical and professional supervision arrangements are in place for all multi-disciplinary staff.
• To provide appropriate support/supervision to other workers within the service.
• To be visible and a proactive leader and role model within a multi- disciplinary framework.
• To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended in 2007), the code of practice and the Mental Capacity Act to ensure their effective application.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN/BSc. OT/Social Worker or health related qualification
- Educated to Degree level in a healthcare related subject
- Degree with experience of post graduate level study or the equivalent experience
- ENB 998/Mentorship or equivalent Practice Placement Educator training
- Evidence of management or leadership development
- NMC/HCPC/other bodies
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in management
- Teaching/training experience.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Management of staff in a multiprofessional setting
- Minimum of three years post registration experience, two of which must be as a band 6
- Detailed awareness of issues in inpatient service areas – legislation, DoH guidance, NPSA, PEAT, CQC, NHSLA, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act including an understanding of standards
- Ability to provide clinical supervision, appraisal, preceptorship and staff support methods
- Knowledge of current developments in mental health or learning disabilities care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in other care settings
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication, modifying communication in response
- De-escalation in managing verbal aggression of disturbed service users
- Keeps accurate and complete records and communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Demonstrate good verbal training and presentation skills
- Ability to chair meetings effectively
- Excellent communicator
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate good decision-making skills
- Flexible and responsive approach to care
- Knowledge and ability to positively manage change
- Ability to identify and manage changes to clinical risks
- Ability to produce reports e.g. related to complaints, investigations, SIs, audits etc
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Hobley
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 711132
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