Team Manager

at  Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Inclusion Services

Do you have a passion for leading a women’s specific service in a custodial setting?
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated registered mental health professional to lead our Integrated Mental Health & Substance Use Team, based within HMP Drake Hall, a prison and young offender institute for women aged 18 years upwards.
You would be joining a caring and compassionate multi disciplinary team committed to Recovery focussed and trauma informed approaches to care. The Service is responsible for assessment, planning and the delivery of a range of evidence based therapeutic interventions to support mental health and substance use needs for some of the most socially excluded women in society.
An interest in perinatal mental health and women’s health issues would be desirable.
You will be responsible for the management and leadership of the team. With a small clinical caseload, you will offer assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidenced based interventions.
You will provide team leadership in co-ordinating the day to day provision of integrated wellbeing, mental health and substance use healthcare to service users in a custodial setting and maintain the overall standards which will include a single point of referral assessment and delivery of care within the framework of The Care programme Approach and recovery agenda.
This will involve both clinical responsibilities of managing a small caseload as well as day to day operational management .
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
Support in the implementation of integrated care pathways including appropriate service user assessments and models of care within a stepped care mental health model.
Co-ordinate care delivery, across the mental healthcare pathway e.g. referrals management, allocations of named worker/care co-ordinator, ensuring seamless continuity of care across the stepped care model dependent on service user need.
Demonstrate the application of appropriate procedures and standards.
Assist in the general management of the clinical area, with responsibilities for managing attendance.
Lead on caseload and management supervision to monitor named nurse/care co-ordinator standards of service user care and documentation

Please refer the Job description for details