Team Manager

As the Team Leader you will expected to:

• Required to line manage MDT professionals who work within the Forensic Low Secure Unit
• Contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
• Work in collaboration with the Primary Care Mental Health Services Manager, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery.
• To work as part of the Mental Health Directorate to deliver the services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health
• Provide day to day management, leadership and supervision to a multi-disciplinary inpatient services for the Low secure unit
• Manage nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. Whilst maintaining a clinical role
• Contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
• Ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues that professional practice meets standards as set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.
• You will uphold trust values and encourage the team to adhere to HPFT values., · To ensure effective nursing assessment and provision of a high standard of care within the inpatient service area
· To act as a positive clinical lead and role model within the inpatient service area · To manage and develop the inpatient service team who can meet the changing needs of the service user · To set and monitor care standards for the inpatient service area · To ensure the day to day running of the service area is maintained to a high standard.

You will be an experienced Mental Health clinician (Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist) with excellent assessment and risk management skills who is able to embrace and drive change and innovation. We are looking for a skilled and intuitive communicator with experience of providing leadership. You will work directly with the Operational Service Manager and Clinical Matron who will provide support, development and direction and alongside other leadership colleagues. You will know the importance of providing high quality supervision and of working together with staff and the wider management team in providing supportive, effective and coordinated leadership to the team in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for service users and carers.,
• RNMH/RNLD/RMN
• Degree with experience of post graduate level study or the equivalent experience
• ENB 998/Mentorship
• Evidence of management or leadership development
• NMC registration
• Teaching/training experience., Management of staff in a multi- professional setting
• Significant experience as a Charge nurse
• Detailed awareness of issues in inpatient service areas - legislation, DoH guidance, NPSA, PEAT, CQC, NHSLA, Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act including an understanding of standards
• Ability to provide clinical supervision, appraisal, preceptorship and staff support methods.
• Knowledge in current developments in mental health or learning disabilities care
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working in other care settings, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional