Deputy Team Lead

We are delighted to inform you about the fantastic and exciting opportunitythat have arisen for a Deputy Team Lead Band 6 to join the South Leicestershire Community Mental Health team within Mental Health Services for Older People.Please note a full UK driving licence is essential for this role.

We are looking for an experienced professionalwho isinnovative and passionate about mental health. We welcome applications from Registered Nurses, Social Workers and Occupational Therapists with experience of supporting people with complex mental health needs and their carers within community settings.

We provide holistic and person centred mental health services for people over 65 with functional and organic conditions and for people under 65 with cognitive impairment.

The CMHTs are well-established multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurses and Health Care Support Workers, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. The teams provide face to face assessments and care for service users referred via the Central Access Point, In-patients and Crises Teams.

The key skills required for these roles include the ability to demonstrate excellent on-going assessment, risk assessment and problem-solving skills and excellent communication skills. You will be expected to demonstrate LPT leadership behaviours and ability to support and develop the team in conjunction with the team lead.

Main duties of the job

The CMHT is a well-established multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurses and Healthcare Support Workers, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. We will deliver evidence based interventions/treatments and recovery focused approach.

You would be expected to complete comprehensive holistic assessments including risk assessment and reviews collaboratively with your patients, carers and the wider MDT. Additionally you would need to manage a case load of patients with complex needs. The patients may experience both organic and functional mental health conditions.

You will need to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to high quality care as well as possessing good therapeutic and interpersonal skills. The successful candidate will engage in a regular clinical/managerial supervision and annual appraisal and you will lead and participate in the development of staff through their appraisal and clinical supervision.

You would be expected to Deputise in the absence of the Team Lead. Additionally, you would contribute to care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional nursing leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality: Patient safety, The effectiveness of all health care interventions, Patient experience, The environment in which care is delivered.

A full driving licence is essential and a car-leasing scheme is in operation., working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied