Team Manager - Community Forensic Service

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Are you interested in leading a multi-disciplinary team working with adults with complex needs? Do you share our team ethos of recovery? You do? Then keep reading, we’d love to hear from you.
At LPFT, our Community Forensic team, work with service users to support them to live their best lives in the community. We do this by providing specialist assessments and interventions for our patient group including those within the transforming care cohort.
We work with mentally disordered offenders who present a significant risk of harm to others by nature of their mental disorder, including those registered at MAPPA and those subject to conditional discharge under Part 3 of the Mental Health Act, Supervised Community Treatment Orders (CTO’s) as well as those with complex needs/presentations. The team also provide services to the transforming care cohort meeting the above criteria.
Relocation expenses of up to £8,000 (subject to relevant criteria) are available. For more information on this, please contact Laura Woodhead- Groves, HR Business Partner via l.woodhead-groves@nhs.net
You will be responsible for leading the team in the provision of high quality multi-disciplinary care, using clinical and operational expertise. You will share our Trust values and will be committed to providing care that is focused on recovery.
You should have substantial post registration experience of working with individuals with complex mental health needs, along with a sound understanding of the principles, ethos, assessments, and interventions associated with a forensic service. Additionally, you should have experience of providing effective clinical and managerial supervision and leadership to others.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life . Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more .
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Please refer the Job description for details