Job overview

We have a fantastic opportunity in Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (RMCH) and Managed Clinical Services (MCS) for an inspirational Team Manager.  Are you an experienced learning disability nurse with a specific interest in Children and Young People? Would you like to co-lead and develop a unique team and service within the acute hospital setting?  

The Focused Support Team support delivery of high quality care to children and young people with learning disability, autism or both and mental health within the acute hospital setting.  You will lead on providing guidance, teaching and specialist knowledge to patients, carers and staff in conjunction with promoting the needs and rights of children and young people with mental health illness, learning disability, neurodiversity or both.

As Team Manager the successful applicant has a key leadership and management role within the organisation.  Alongside the Team Manager for Mental Health, you will be a specialist advisor across the hospital and build relationships within clinical settings and with external agencies, providing leadership and expertise to enable and ensure assessment, planning, evaluation and delivery of safe and effective, patient centred care.   

Main duties of the job

Clinical and Professional responsibility.

Safe and effective operational management.

Provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the organisation 

Line manager.

Recruitment and Retention.

Develop and implement Local and National Policy and Standards.

Education and Coaching to develop others.

Change management.

Budget control.

Key communicator and facilitator.

Ensuring the environment is conducive to well-being.

Contribute and participate in the RMCH Senior Nurse rota

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.