Community Psychiatric Nurse Team leader

Job summary

The post holder will provide leadership, line management and supervision to a team of nursing staff within a pro-active and forward thinking multi-disciplinary community mental health service. Positive role modelling and risk management alongside expert delivery of evidence based mental health nursing care to service users in the community are essential components of this role.

Main duties of the job

• Promote and maintain a culture of compassion and care to staff and service users.
• Actively promote the development of evidence based practice.
• Foster robust working relationships with all partners in particular Local Authority and Primary Care.
• To carry a clinical caseload and take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting all staff in the CMHT with the management of such cases.
• To respond as required to serious untoward incidents, complaints and communications regarding team issues providing feedback to the team to ensure lessons learned are shared and inform practice development.

• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.

• Operate an honest and open listening culture within the team, positively inviting and responding to feedback from both staff and service users.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.