Team Manager

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The Sleaford Community Mental Health Team are excited to be offering an opportunity for a Band 7 team manager role.
The sucessful post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day management and leadership of the team. It gives the opportunity to be involved in the journey of transforming adult community mental health services within LPFT.
This post will work closely with the Integrated Places Based Team Senior Mental Health Practitioner and the Senior Mental Health Practitioners in Primary care to provide a seamless service supporting in enabling individuals to achieve their optimum physical, psychological, and social wellbeing and improve the lives of people who access healthcare services in the locality of Sleaford.

Ensure the service offer a safe, caring, responsive and well-led service. This role requires the ability to multitask; incorporating service development, operational and people management.
To provide strong leadership and vision to the team maintaining robust quality assurance to enable a safe high quality service to be delivered.
To lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector.
To continue to develop the team including embedding the principles of ‘no wrong front door, ‘no cliff edges’, co-production and personalised care and support.
Monitoring the performance and quality of the service the team delivers, , including engaging the team in performance management.
To deal appropriately with clinical incidents and complaints in accordance with trust policies.
Recruitment, selection and induction of staff.
Conducting management, clinical supervision and appraisals.
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 .
To provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.
To embed the principles of ‘no wrong front door, ‘no cliff edges’, co-production and personalised care and support
To lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector
Be an active attendee of local partnership groups
To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.
To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Supporting the move away from CPA to personalised care.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To contribute to the development of the service, participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at individual briefing sessions and group management meetings as required.
Promote direct supervision to specified staff delegated by the Service Manager.
Receive and, where appropriate participate in staff development and performance appraisals.
To recruit to posts within their locality.
Support the development of the professional practice in the service, ensuring the provision of clinical supervision.
Promote the vision and values of the Trust.
Support the Service Manager in planning and managing the overall expenditure of the team of staff, supplies equipment, etc, within the budget, determined by the Divisional Manager and in accordance with the Trust’s standing orders, standing financial instructions, budgetary rules and other financial policies.
Keep up to date on current practices in mental health, including participation in departmental training programmes and professional development education.
To attend relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of service users.
Assist the Service Manager by monitoring performance and activity targets.
Promote equality and ease of access to Services.
To support the development and use of systems to monitor and review the Service Provision against national and local standards as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery.
To support the Service Manager on service improvement following internal case review, complaints and incidents.
Play an active role in relevant professional and service improvement groups, within the service and Trust-wide.
Attend countywide groups for service area in health and/or social care and other agencies and to support their activities and the development of integrated and inclusive provision to ensure effective pathways of care.
Develop and deliver information to enhance professional awareness of issues related to the emotional and mental needs of service users in other services and/or agencies.
Support the development of new ways working within the service and the Trust.
To advise the Service Manager of any undue occurrence reported or witnessed or complaint received.
To observe and oversee adherence to all Health and Safety at work policies and contribute towards safe working practices.
Work within Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust agreed policies and procedures, protocols, Guidelines and standards at all times and promote competent working practice within and integrated, multi - disciplinary setting.
Be aware of, understand and comply with the relevant professionals guidelines. The Mental Health Act 1983 and other relevant legislation at all times. Conform to the organisational Clinical Governance and Patient’s Charter Standards.
Promote and support the participation of service users in developing local services, information and guidelines through effective communication, consultation and to promote opportunities for service users and their families to contribute at all levels