Bank, Band 7, Team Leader, Borehamwood - SW1474

Job overview

We are currently seeking an experienced Team Leader, at Band 7 to work via a Bank Contract, based in Borehamwood, for the Community Adult Mental Health Services. You will be joining our Temporary Staffing Team within HPFT - Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Community Mental Health Services Manager, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery and provide day-to-day management, leadership and supervision to a multi-disciplinary community mental health service team.

The Team Leader will 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. You will also maintain a clinical role and/or a caseload dependent on sector need. The Team Leader will ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues, that professional practice meets standards set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.

HPFT provides services for service users with mental health, learning disability and children’s and adolescent mental health problems. Applicants should have some experience of working in a healthcare setting.

All applicants need to be able to evidence their current registration with  NMC, GSCC, HPC or Social Worker England.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide day-to-day management, leadership and supervision to a multi- disciplinary community mental health service team.

The Team Leader will contribute at a local level to the development and  implementation of policies and procedures. The Team Leader may on occasion deputise for the Community Mental Health Services Manager in his or her absence, as agreed with the Service Line Leader.

You will plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of a health and social care  assessment, care management and treatment service to service users within the designated community mental health service area, including  overseeing referrals and ensuring that there is an even and appropriate  distribution of work across the team, based on the experience of team members.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Oversee referrals and the allocation of service users to workers, ensuring that caseloads are monitored and managed and care packages are maintained.
• Ensure that there are adequate staff numbers organised appropriately around service user needs and to incorporate this into  rota planning.
• Ensure that risks relating to service users, unmet needs and to the work environment are assessed and managed appropriately, ensuring         that all team members know and understand their role in risk management.
• Provide operational supervision and, in conjunction with the Senior Practitioner (social care) and relevant nurse practitioners, ensure the  provision of clinical caseload supervision to all team members. Where    necessary to make arrangements for appropriate professional supervision to be available to all team members.
• Implement and monitor relevant operational policies and protocols, team systems and processes for the effective operation of his/her team.
• Ensure quality care standards and procedures which support the  aims of Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust and the ethos of the Recovery Approach.
• Monitor the service caseload ensuring that the teams activities are  targeted to clients/patients, fulfilling the agreed criteria.

Please see JD attached for further information and responsibilities required