Job summary
Older People's Intensive Home Treatment Team Manager, Band 7
Permanent, full time - 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to manage and lead the Older People's Intensive Home Treatment Team. This post will be an exciting role for an individual who has proven management potential and a desire to influence and lead clinical practice and service development within the crisis mental health pathway.
This exciting opportunity is suitable for a Registered Mental Health Practitioner with recent experience in an acute and crisis mental health setting, ideally with some team manager experience already. You should enjoy working within a busy and challenging environment and must be able to work effectively under pressure. You will have a sound knowledge of mental illness and therapeutic interventions and be competent in independent mental health assessment. You will have excellent communication skills and understand the need to build strong relationships with both internal and external agencies.
The post-holder will be responsible both for the day-to-day operational management of the HTT and the development of the service.
The post-holder will ensure that the team delivers a high-quality service to people in crisis and their carers and collaborates effectively with other clinical teams within the adult mental health directorates, and with partnership agencies.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the day-to-day management of and clinical support to the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best quality clinical care
- To ensure the team demonstrate advanced clinical assessment and risk management skills.
- To ensure the team operate within Oxleas clinical policies and procedures.
- To ensure that clinical communication is effective between all team members and other services within Oxleas and external agencies.
- To ensure that effective communication is always maintained with the Borough Crisis Teams Manager, alerting them to any concerns without delay.
- To ensure the team provide clients with high quality information related to their mental and physical health needs, and the services available to them.
- To ensure the team maintains high quality clinical records and activity logs.
- To be responsible for ensuring the Professional Codes of Conduct are adhered to within the multidisciplinary team.
- To ensure the team maintains the best standards of communication with service users, carers and other professionals.
- To participate when appropriate in a speedy and effective resolution of concerns or complaints from service users or carers.
- To take a leading role in the implementation of evidence-based practice.
- To maintain external professional accreditation of the team (Home Treatment Accreditation Standards - HTAS).
- To ensure the team operates within the health and safety procedures of the Trust and all risk assessments are carried out in a timely manner.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the teams personnel resources are deployed to provide a clinically safe and effective service with adequate shift cover.
- To promote and utilise suitably skilled temporary cover appropriately.
- To ensure the team operate within Oxleas health and safety policies and procedures.
- To play a lead role in the recruitment of new staff within the team.
- To be responsible for the planning and facilitation of induction programmes for new members of the team.
- To provide line management supervision (and where appropriate clinical supervision) for team members in accordance with Trust supervision standards.
- To operate in accordance with all Human Resource policies and ensure team awareness of these.
- To ensure all team members fully participate in the Trusts Personal Development Review system.
- To evaluate and identify individual staff member's educational needs ensuring professional updating and development as appropriate.
- To ensure that staff training records are maintained.
- To utilise performance and sickness absence procedures where appropriate.
- To ensure the team operates within its operational budget, proactively identifying any areas of overspends with the Borough Crisis Teams Manager.
- To carry out all E-rostering tasks required to plan and confirm staff utilisation.
- To support the development of a culture that promotes leadership through coaching.
- To line manage and performance staff in accordance with Trust standards and protocols.
- To assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles in both working age and older adult services.
- Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care.
- To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective clinical care delivery
- To recruit/develop staff who meet the organisational standards and measure performance against leadership and management competencies adopted by the Trust.
- To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers
- To deputise for the Borough Crisis Teams Manager as required.
- To maintain high standards of professional integrity and respect for others in all dealings with service users, colleagues, and other professionals and members of the public.
- To be able to work with a high level of autonomy.
- To participate in Trust and external meetings, acting as a spokesperson/ representative for the Trust as necessary.
- To be responsible for actively encouraging the promotion of mental health education by undertaking or participating in seminars, lectures and workshops as appropriate.
- To develop and maintain the range of skills appropriate to the post and to keep up to date with research, publications and issues in the mental health field and own professional discipline.
- To ensure continuous self-development both professionally and personally, through mandatory and non- mandatory training, supervision and other appropriate means.
- To attend appropriate professional training courses/meetings by agreement with the Service Manager.
- To maintain accurate records, collect statistical and research data and write clinical reports.
- To undertake serious incident investigation reports at the direction of the Patient Safety Lead
- To undertake informal and formal complaints investigations.
- To undertake direct clinical work where appropriate, including the ability to complete comprehensive mental state examinations and risk assessment and formulation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To ensure the teams personnel resources are deployed to provide a clinically safe and effective service with adequate shift cover.
- To promote and utilise suitably skilled temporary cover appropriately.
- To ensure the team operate within Oxleas health and safety policies and procedures.
- To play a lead role in the recruitment of new staff within the team.
- To be responsible for the planning and facilitation of induction programmes for new members of the team.
- To provide line management supervision (and where appropriate clinical supervision) for team members in accordance with Trust supervision standards.
- To operate in accordance with all Human Resource policies and ensure team awareness of these.
- To ensure all team members fully participate in the Trusts Personal Development Review system.
- To evaluate and identify individual staff member's educational needs ensuring professional updating and development as appropriate.
- To ensure that staff training records are maintained.
- To utilise performance and sickness absence procedures where appropriate.
- To ensure the team operates within its operational budget, proactively identifying any areas of overspends with the Borough Crisis Teams Manager.
- To carry out all E-rostering tasks required to plan and confirm staff utilisation.
- To support the development of a culture that promotes leadership through coaching.
- To line manage and performance staff in accordance with Trust standards and protocols.
- To assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles in both working age and older adult services.
- Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care.
- To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective clinical care delivery
- To recruit/develop staff who meet the organisational standards and measure performance against leadership and management competencies adopted by the Trust.
- To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers
- To deputise for the Borough Crisis Teams Manager as required.
- To maintain high standards of professional integrity and respect for others in all dealings with service users, colleagues, and other professionals and members of the public.
- To be able to work with a high level of autonomy.
- To participate in Trust and external meetings, acting as a spokesperson/ representative for the Trust as necessary.
- To be responsible for actively encouraging the promotion of mental health education by undertaking or participating in seminars, lectures and workshops as appropriate.
- To develop and maintain the range of skills appropriate to the post and to keep up to date with research, publications and issues in the mental health field and own professional discipline.
- To ensure continuous self-development both professionally and personally, through mandatory and non- mandatory training, supervision and other appropriate means.
- To attend appropriate professional training courses/meetings by agreement with the Service Manager.
- To maintain accurate records, collect statistical and research data and write clinical reports.
- To undertake serious incident investigation reports at the direction of the Patient Safety Lead
- To undertake informal and formal complaints investigations.
- To undertake direct clinical work where appropriate, including the ability to complete comprehensive mental state examinations and risk assessment and formulation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification
- Valid Professional Registration
- Evidence of professional development in the last 2 years.
Desirable
- Management/ Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing supervision to a multidisciplinary group
- Experience of working in mental health complex needs service specialties
- At least two years post qualifying experience conducting Mental Health Risk Assessments and developing Risk Management Plans
Desirable
- Experience of providing operational management to a team
- Experience of clinical work with older adults and/or experience managing older adult MH services
Skills
Essential
- Leadership Skills
- Communication and Interface skills
- Response to complaints, or concerns
Desirable
- oProblem solving approach to complex client-centred care and service development.
- oEvidence of advance practice in relation to the care and management of clients experiencing a mental health crisis
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification
- Valid Professional Registration
- Evidence of professional development in the last 2 years.
Desirable
- Management/ Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing supervision to a multidisciplinary group
- Experience of working in mental health complex needs service specialties
- At least two years post qualifying experience conducting Mental Health Risk Assessments and developing Risk Management Plans
Desirable
- Experience of providing operational management to a team
- Experience of clinical work with older adults and/or experience managing older adult MH services
Skills
Essential
- Leadership Skills
- Communication and Interface skills
- Response to complaints, or concerns
Desirable
- oProblem solving approach to complex client-centred care and service development.
- oEvidence of advance practice in relation to the care and management of clients experiencing a mental health crisis
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
