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Job summary

Main area
Lincolnshire Mental health helpline
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time
Job ref
274-10795-AI
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sycamore Centre
Town
Grantham
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/05/2024 08:00
Interview date
16/05/2024

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Team Coordinator

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent B7 Team co-ordinator for the new  Lincolnshire 111 Mental health Team and Single Point of Access Team.

The successful post holder will be responsible for the day to day management and leadership of the team and as a new service will support the Service Manager with its ongoing development.

The service sits within the Urgent Care Pathway and as such you will work closely with our Urgent care colleagues as well as services from outside LPFT. The 111 service and SPA provide countywide support and information for professionals, service users and their carers.

Main duties of the job

Key components of the role will include:

Ensure the service offer a safe, caring, responsive and well-led service. This role requires the ability to multitask; incorporating service development, operational and people management.

To provide strong leadership and vision to the team maintaining robust quality assurance to enable a safe high quality service to be delivered.

To continue to develop the team

Monitoring the performance and quality of the service the team delivers, , including engaging the team in performance management.

To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints in accordance with trust policies.

Recruitment, selection and induction of staff.

Conducting management, clinical supervision and appraisals

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.

To embed the principles of ‘no wrong front door, ‘no cliff edges’, co-production and personalised care and support

Be an active attendee of local partnership groups

To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.

To ensure the clinical practice of members of the team is of the highest standard of clinical care.

To manage service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements

Promoting high quality standards and cost effectiveness in all aspects of care delivery.

To support the workforce development for managing the changing demographic and population health.

Receive and, where appropriate participate in staff development and performance appraisals.

Maintain patient confidentiality and works within the confines of the Data Protection Act

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

Promote the mission and values of the Trust

Enable individuals

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1 st Level Registration (NMC, HCPC)
  • • Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
  • • Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in management
Desirable criteria
  • Management training
  • Masters Degree

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Post- Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.
  • • Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills
  • • Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
  • • Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality.
  • • Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working with telephone based systems and services.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
  • • Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.
  • • Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.
  • • Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.
  • • IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.
  • • Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.
  • • Budget management.
  • • Self-motivated with excellent personal management skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Anderson
Job title
Team Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07860637558

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
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