WorkWell Team Manager

Job summary

The WorkWell Team Manager post is a new full time post, part of this role will be to set up and mobilise this brand new service.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the ongoing day to day management and future development of the service across the Black Country.

This will include managing performance activity, data quality, service delivery, as well as line management responsibilities for the team and having communications with our funders.

You will be able to demonstrate strong project management skills and abilities and be able to work under pressure to achieve challenging deadlines.

Main duties of the job

• To develop and manage the WorkWell Service, providing high quality, timely assessment & support interventions
• To have specialist knowledge and understanding of employment support and retention
• To manage the performance activity, data quality and service delivery of the team and ensure they provide an integrated and effective service
• To recruit the team and ensure the staff have an understanding of the process and philosophy of the positive benefits of work
• Ensure the service works within national and locally agreed frameworks
• To lead the team in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice
• To monitor the workload and performance of team and provide reports
• To promote and foster good relations with other teams and agencies and stakeholders
• To attend regular management and planning meetings, workshops and conferences relating to health issues and employment
• To remain well informed about the national agenda for Employment and Retention, health and social care, and the economic picture.
• To make presentations, where appropriate, to staff, clinical colleagues or management groups
• To take note of and, where appropriate, act upon any external audits or reviews
• To manage budgets within stipulated financial limits
• To ensure work collaboratively with other agencies in developing andmaintaining wellness and recovery action plans (WRAPs) when individuals return to work
• Provide the team with specialist advice for more complex cases as required.

About us

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• Mental health services for children and young people
• Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, with the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We currently employ over 3,500 people and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds. Whatever your role, working in a NHS Foundation Trust, like ours, is a demanding and extremely rewarding experience. Knowing that every day you can help to make a positive difference to someone's life is a very powerful feeling. We know that our Trust runs on this desire to help and support people, and our Trust vision expresses this. Our vision is to improve health and wellbeing for everyone, especially our colleagues to achieve the best possible work/life balance.