Local Primary Mental Health Support Service - Team Leader

The Bridgend Local Primary mental Health Support Service is excited to announce a vacancy for a band 7 team leader. The successful candidate will manage and provide expert support to a well established team of mental health practitioners based across the Bridgend locality. They will work in close liaison with colleagues in our psychology department, outpatients, and Community Mental Health Teams, and will monitor referral rates to ensure that our community receive a timely and proportionate service and treatment plan designed to meet their individual needs under Part 1 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010., To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a team of staff across the Bridgend locality providing a high quality service within the resources available within a defined area, and specifically to deliver on the following key areas:

• Provision of support, advice and training to GPs and other primary care providers such as practice nurses to enable them to safely manage and care for people with mental health problems.
• Ensure that a culture of effective assessment, formulation and positive risk management is present in the team.
• Actively promote the development of evidence based practice
• To carry an assessment and intervention based caseload and take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in 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 .
• Deputises for Senior Nurse as and when required.
• Respond to demand and capacity data in order to ensure that resources are used to maximum efficiency across Bridgend Local Primary Mental Health Support Service, and to report to, and work with the senior nurse and admin team leader when there are problems in meeting demand.
  
  The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
  
  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.