Job summary
SWLSTG is proud to offer a unique opportunity for a highly motivated nurse who will be responsible for leading and managing a Multidisciplinary Team. We are excited to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for a Team Manager to join Dialectic Behaviour Service (DBT). This is an ideal opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse with robust clinical experience, wanting to take the next step in their career in clinical management in a dynamic and fascinating area of outreach service. Applicants will need to have relevant, demonstrable experience and must be highly motivated with strong leadership capabilities.
We are looking for an experienced Nurse who is dedicated, enthusiastic, professional and can deliver sound clinical practice. As Team Manager, you will join a multi-disciplinary team to provide comprehensive services, caring for patients with a range of mental health problems. To assist you in your development, you will have an induction programme and continual training within this specialty.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a role model of excellence in the delivery of holistic care to our patients. The post requires you to be able to work collaboratively, independently and manage clinical concerns of patients. This post supports the functioning of this specialist Tier 3 service as a standalone team with good interface and smooth step-up / step-down pathways. The post holder is responsible for the management of young people under the care of the team and therefore will need to be trained in DBT or service will fund DBT training programme.
The DBT service in South West London supports over 30 young people a year aiming to reduce their risk of suicide attempts, inpatient treatment, and referral to adult services at age 18. Referrals are from consultants in Tier 3/ specialist community CAMHS from all 5 boroughs of the Trust (Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond). Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) is a highly effective, treatment for children and young people (CYP) with traits of emerging Borderline Personality disorder / Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and acute self-harm and suicidality.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To contribute to the formulation of assessment and treatment plans for the management of young peoples mental health needs, using frameworks which take account of an analysis of a complex range of information from multiple sources, and uses methods of intervention based upon evidence of effectiveness.
- To manage meetings that routinely involve parents, carers and other professionals, where viewpoints can conflict.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritizingown client workload of children and adolescents, often involving additional problem areas, such as self-harm, depression or family difficulties.
- To provide appropriate therapy aspart of a multi-disciplinary assessment andtreatment plan.
- To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, risk-taking and self-harm, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining more than one provisional hypothesis, adjusting treatment options according to circumstance.
- To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information.
- To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age-appropriate language, being mindful that some information may be unwelcome.
- To provide specialist therapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who are contributing directly to the assessment, formulation and treatment plan of young people.
- To work in close liaison with other childrens services including health, social care services, education, and the voluntary sector.
Professional
- To ensure that all nursing, healthcare assistants and support staff receive appropriate clinical supervision.
- To monitor performance of this staff group and to act, if necessary, to maintain standards and quality within the Trust clinical governance framework and the complaints, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
- To promote professional development and to conduct annual PADRs for all nursing, healthcare assistants and support staff.
- To ensure Trust standards of recording and information governance are maintained.
- To provide consultation and training to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinician.
- To receive professional supervision as directed by the CAMHS Head of Nursing & Quality.
- To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
- To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review.
- To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To be responsible for the smooth and effective operational management and co-ordination of the team.
- To work in close partnership with the multi-disciplinary team, actively promoting team working.
- To hold managerial responsibility for all non-medical clinicians, ensuring the various disciplines work within the relevant operational policy and providing support and consultation in the process.
- To ensure that clinical and managerial supervision is in place for all staff members.
- To provide management reports and to manage complaints and critical incident reporting, ensuring learning from these events is embedded into team practice.
- To manage and supervise administrative and secretarial staff in the team.
- To ensure that all necessary performance information is collected in the required timescale.
- To manage the teams performance against commissioned contracts, NICE guidance, Trust policies, and activity reports.
- To ensure systems are in place to manage intake, allocation, caseloads and clinical review.
- To manage the roster and ensure that the service is adequately staffed.
- To carry through procedures regarding staff disciplinary and sickness absence.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of the team members within the framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of new appointments.
- To promote the Trusts Equal Opportunities strategy and implement procedures to further this process.
- Championing the Trust Recovery and Social Inclusion strategy in the team.
- Managing the Trust allocated resources in conjunction with the Clinical Manager.
- To act according to the Schedule of Professional Behaviours.
Research and Service Evaluation
- Within Trust and service clinical governance frameworks, to contribute to audit and research as agreed by the Senior Management Team.
Other
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:
- Current Mental Health Legislation
- The Childrens Act (1989)
- Trust, local Safeguarding Board, and panLondon child protection procedures.
- Local and national developments relevant to child mental health
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Clinical Governance
- Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
- Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- To contribute to the formulation of assessment and treatment plans for the management of young peoples mental health needs, using frameworks which take account of an analysis of a complex range of information from multiple sources, and uses methods of intervention based upon evidence of effectiveness.
- To manage meetings that routinely involve parents, carers and other professionals, where viewpoints can conflict.
- To be responsible for managing and prioritizingown client workload of children and adolescents, often involving additional problem areas, such as self-harm, depression or family difficulties.
- To provide appropriate therapy aspart of a multi-disciplinary assessment andtreatment plan.
- To make appropriate formulations, that may need to consider risk such as sexual abuse, risk-taking and self-harm, drawing upon a wide experience and knowledge base, maintaining more than one provisional hypothesis, adjusting treatment options according to circumstance.
- To be responsible for recording clinical work and communicating, both orally and in writing, in a skilled and constructive manner highly complex or distressing information.
- To share assessment and treatment plans, using sensitive and age-appropriate language, being mindful that some information may be unwelcome.
- To provide specialist therapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals who are contributing directly to the assessment, formulation and treatment plan of young people.
- To work in close liaison with other childrens services including health, social care services, education, and the voluntary sector.
Professional
- To ensure that all nursing, healthcare assistants and support staff receive appropriate clinical supervision.
- To monitor performance of this staff group and to act, if necessary, to maintain standards and quality within the Trust clinical governance framework and the complaints, disciplinary and grievance procedures.
- To promote professional development and to conduct annual PADRs for all nursing, healthcare assistants and support staff.
- To ensure Trust standards of recording and information governance are maintained.
- To provide consultation and training to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinician.
- To receive professional supervision as directed by the CAMHS Head of Nursing & Quality.
- To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
- To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review.
- To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
- To be responsible for the smooth and effective operational management and co-ordination of the team.
- To work in close partnership with the multi-disciplinary team, actively promoting team working.
- To hold managerial responsibility for all non-medical clinicians, ensuring the various disciplines work within the relevant operational policy and providing support and consultation in the process.
- To ensure that clinical and managerial supervision is in place for all staff members.
- To provide management reports and to manage complaints and critical incident reporting, ensuring learning from these events is embedded into team practice.
- To manage and supervise administrative and secretarial staff in the team.
- To ensure that all necessary performance information is collected in the required timescale.
- To manage the teams performance against commissioned contracts, NICE guidance, Trust policies, and activity reports.
- To ensure systems are in place to manage intake, allocation, caseloads and clinical review.
- To manage the roster and ensure that the service is adequately staffed.
- To carry through procedures regarding staff disciplinary and sickness absence.
- To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
- To advise both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where organisational matters need addressing.
- To manage the workloads of the team members within the framework of the teams policies and procedures.
- To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of new appointments.
- To promote the Trusts Equal Opportunities strategy and implement procedures to further this process.
- Championing the Trust Recovery and Social Inclusion strategy in the team.
- Managing the Trust allocated resources in conjunction with the Clinical Manager.
- To act according to the Schedule of Professional Behaviours.
Research and Service Evaluation
- Within Trust and service clinical governance frameworks, to contribute to audit and research as agreed by the Senior Management Team.
Other
- To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holders professional and service manager(s).
- To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health. For this post these specifically include:
- Current Mental Health Legislation
- The Childrens Act (1989)
- Trust, local Safeguarding Board, and panLondon child protection procedures.
- Local and national developments relevant to child mental health
- Risk Assessment and Management
- Clinical Governance
- Local and national developments in line with Every Child Matters
- Joint working practices between voluntary and statutory sector
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- oFirst degree in mental health nursing
- oProfessional registration with NMC
- oEvidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- oFurther post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- oSupervision training
- oAn appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award)
- oA postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- oSignificant post-qualification experience
- oSignificant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- oClinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
- oLeadership experience
- oExperience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
- oWorking in a multi-disciplinary team
- oProviding and receiving supervision
- oEstablishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- oExperience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- oConducting service evaluations
- oWorking collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
- oWork in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
- oExperience of working in a community setting
- oCoaching skills qualification.
Person Specification
TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- oFirst degree in mental health nursing
- oProfessional registration with NMC
- oEvidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- oFurther post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- oSupervision training
- oAn appropriate professional qualification to supervise students in training. (e.g. ENB 998 or Practice Teacher Award)
- oA postgraduate qualification in a therapeutic modality relevant to child mental health.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- oSignificant post-qualification experience
- oSignificant experience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- oClinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
- oLeadership experience
- oExperience of developing services and influencing and managing a change process
- oWorking in a multi-disciplinary team
- oProviding and receiving supervision
- oEstablishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- oExperience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- oConducting service evaluations
- oWorking collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
- oWork in a range of settings e.g. inpatient, community, residential
- oExperience of working in a community setting
- oCoaching skills qualification.
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).
