Community Team Manager

Job summary

We are recruiting to a Community Team Lead post within our Access and Assessment Team for a 6 month secondment / fixed term contract. The AAT team is our access and assessment services in Suffolk for referrals to Adult Mental health and wellbeing services. The service works closely with the Primary Care Network practitioners and NSFT Mental health services to ensure a smooth transition from referral to assessment and treatment. The role will include line management and operational support to the AAT team , providing clinical support and oversight with MDTs, and complex cases. The AAT service is under transformation, so this is an exciting time to join the team and develop your skills in transformation and operational change to progress the service going forward.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team of professionals working along side the PCNs and community teams. In this role you will provide operational leadership to the team, working closely with our Community Matron and providing clinical support for the team as needed.

The Community Team Manager will collaborate with key partners and stakeholders across health, social care and other sectors to support and drive service development ensuring that key performance targets and national standards are met.

Main duties of the job

This is an opportunity to work within a specialist multi-disciplinary setting, which offers a wide range of MDT clinical assessments and treatments, specific specialist perinatal therapeutic individual and group interventions. We promote a strong service user led participation culture as well as supporting partners and families.

The successful candidate will support individual staff with developing their performance in their clinical work, as well as supporting with safeguarding and quality assurance. This post requires a dynamic individual with excellent leadership skills to work innovatively and confidently.

This post offers an opportunity to work as a senior member of the leadership team.

We have a culture of continuous learning, and we have regular protected Continuous Professional Development (CPD) days which includes a variety of training, reflection, supervision and service development - these are facilitated by our senior clinical and management team.

We offer a comprehensive induction programme , we believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, can provide better outcomes for our service users.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Mariner House

Handford Road

Ipswich, Suffolk

IP1 2GA

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Mariner House

Handford Road

Ipswich, Suffolk

IP1 2GA

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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