Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing/Allied Professional
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-1903
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peckwater Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Team Manager
Band 7
At Camden and Islington NHS foundation trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
We have 3 key priorities which are:
- Early and Effective Intervention
- Helping People to Live Well
- Research and Innovation
The cultural pillars that help us achieve our key priorities are:
- We value each other
- We are empowered
- We keep things simple
- We are connected
By coming to work at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will be joining a Trust with a national reputation for research, where services recognise that research underpins its commitment to providing high quality and innovative clinical care.
As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how C&I values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.
Job overview
Camden Memory Service is looking for a new Team Manager to provide the leadership and management to our successful service model which provides high quality, timely diagnostic assessment services alongside a post diagnostic support offer from diagnosis to end of life.
We are seeking to recruit a team manager who shares our passion to strive towards excellence in older adult care, with a passion for Dementia, a keen interest in service development and quality improvement, leading on local developments and across wider partnership with focus on performance and maintenance of our trust values where staff and service users feel safe, valued and empowered.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead and manage the multi-disciplinary Memory Service. They will be responsible for ensuring that the team understands and operates to the requirements of the service line operational policy and service line strategy and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users and carers.
Working for our organisation
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) provides high quality, safe and innovative mental health care to our patients in the community, in their homes or in hospital. We provide services for adults of working age, adults with learning difficulties, and older people in the London area.
We currently deliver the majority of our care to residents in the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington. However, we also provide substance misuse services in Westminster, and a substance misuse and psychological therapies service to people living in Kingston. Our trust is also a member of University College London Partners (UCLP), one of the world’s leading academic health science partnerships. In addition we have specialist programmes which provide help and treatment for: veterans living in London, young people caught in the cycle of gang culture, older people living with dementia and other age related mental health conditions. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.candi.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant responsibilities are outlined within the job description attachment and details the Team Manager role , with support from service leads, in the day to day management, service delivery and workforce oversight for Camden Memory Service.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification for role e.g. RMN
- Education at GCSE A-C or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of additional education/learning around Dementia care
Work experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working within Memory Service
- Experience of undertaking diagnostic assessment
- Experience of undertaking Post Diagnostic dementia interventions
- Experience of working with carers for those living with Dementia
Desirable criteria
- Working at senior level within Memory Service
Management experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of supervising staff
- Experience of managing change processes
- Experience of working with external stakeholders e.g. ASC
- Evidence of use of Quality Improvement within work
- Evidence of leadership role within multidisciplinary team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ian Sherriffs
- Job title
- Head of Services for Ageing and Mental Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07813398419
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