Job overview

Clinical Team Leader - Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team

Are you confident in taking the lead when faced with issues?

Do you work well with people and teams?

Have you got experience of leadership in a  mental health environment?

Do you have the skills to grow and maintain a confident team, with positive values and standards that strive for the best patient centred care?

If you have said yes to these questions, we have an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your career as the Clinical Team Leader for the Crisis Response and Home Treatment Team based at Wedgwood House, Bury St Edmunds.

As a Clinical Team Leader you will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development to ensure the effective implementation and sustained delivery of mental health services.

You will be responsible for management of day-to-day operational and clinical issues arising within the service. In addition, you will also be responsible for the operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for their clinical / managerial supervision, as well as providing professional governance and leadership .

You will maintain compliance with key performance indicators and develop any Quality Improvement initiatives that could improve outcomes for our services and its users.

Main duties of the job

Leadership

Provide advice and leadership to staff, treatment, therapy and risk assessment and management.

Ensure any learning is embedded and sustained in the Team.

 Clinical

Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures contributing to policy development via Governance processes, particularly in relation to clinical care.

Demonstrate a sound knowledge of current legislation and policy that underpins mental healthcare delivery.

Participate in clinical audit,  QA and clinical governance.

Lead the development of training to deliver high quality care.

Communication

Be able to communicate with people in a way which is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.

Work effectively in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team, working across different settings as required.

Protect and maintain the confidential nature of the work at all times, both in written and verbal form.

 Quality

Act consistently with legislation, policies, procedures and other quality approaches.

Maintain expert practice through further study, research, clinical practice and personal development.

Participate in supervision for both self and others

Develop a culture that improves quality and take the appropriate action when there are quality issues.

 Equality and Diversity

Support and promote equality and value diversity.

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

Participate in Equality and Diversity Impact Assessment.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

To work within our Trusts values and behaviours -  Positively, Respectfully, Together to ensure that we work to ensure compassionate and high quality care to all in our service.