Older Adult HITS Team Manager

Job summary

The Team Manager for the Home Intervention Team (HITS), Care Home Liaison and Single Point of Entry will provide a comprehensive and specialist mental health service to older people with both functional and organic illness within a community setting.

The practitioner will also manage the development and co-ordination of skills within the community teams:

• To provide specialist advice on complex cases and to people in crisis.
• To work collaboratively across a range of disciplines to continuously promote a needs based approach to all clients.
• To promote an integrated approach to service delivery and lead policy changes to support the development of the service.

The post will support the delivery of a community crisis service across the 7 day period.

Main duties of the job

• To oversee the management of the HIT caseload, and Care Home Liaison caseload and SPOE service, leading the nursing team and co-ordinating the clinical and therapeutic care within community, on a day to day basis:
• To take full responsibility for managing the quality of care provided to clients in the community and to ensure that appropriate supervised care is provided at all times.
• To chair weekly clinical meetings.
• To set and monitor standards of care with the team to review care and treatment of patients and to ensure appropriate standards are maintained

AFC 7/9/22 JME-185-22 Older Peoples Mental Health Team Manager - HIT Band 7

• To participate in the development of care pathways to ensure the best possible service to clients
• To ensure evidence based tools and interventions are used as appropriate.
• To carry a small caseload of patients and support colleagues with complex clients management and joint work where required.
• To provide clinical leadership and robust decision making to ensure that appropriate care pathways are identified for service users
• To work with the wider older peoples service to operationalise a robust gate keeping protocol.
• To liaise with the ward and community services managers to ensure MDT working is effective and prevent admissions to the wards and ensure timely discharge from the ward.
• To ensure all appropriate client records are maintained to the required Trust standard

About us

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel