Community Team Manager

The Suffolk Secure Services Forensic Community Mental Health Team provide recovery-focused community care. This is for offenders who have been, or are being, discharged from a secure unit. In 2021, our community services were awarded some collaborative funds to focus on service user progression and achieving the best for the service user by reducing the risks of re admission to secure sittings, reducing length of stay in secure settings and supporting with more community resource to aid recovery and step down from secure settings. We are looking for a highly skilled, motivated, and passionate Band 7 Clinical Team Manager to join our Suffolk Team. This is a team with a wealth of experienced colleagues who are focused on recovery and making a difference thereby has a positive impact on the quality of life for our service users. The right candidate will lead and motivate the team and will continue the excellent work already ongoing with our service users and develop further opportunities for the team, we have recently has a very successful QSR and we would like you to continue with those improvements to achieve an overall rating of outstanding form the CQC.

We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background who poses a vast experience in different areas of mental health. Your wealth of skills and expertise in metal health will be valued and career progression will be supported within our line management and appraisal structures. We are openly welcoming people from a diverse clinical background who poses a vast experience in different areas of mental health. Your wealth of skills and expertise in metal health will be valued and career progression will be supported within our line management and appraisal structures. Within this role you will be involved in working alongside the MDT managing cases, hold an individual caseload, working within the confines of a robust co-produced care plan that meets the individual service users' needs whilst managing any risk factors for the individual or others. The multidisciplinary team is recovery focused and works with a mixed caseload of males and female service users who have complex mental health needs. Working with carers, relatives and other third-party agencies will be a very crucial part of your role.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.