Community Mental Health Hub Team Leader

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Team Leader  for Harrow Community Mental Health Hub. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker to join our dynamic team.  The post holder will work with adults in the community with mental health needs and support the team with the day to day running of a busy mental health service.

The role is suitable for a qualified clinician with experience working in the community and for someone seeking to develop their leadership and management skills.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as a Team Leader in the Hub with duties including:

• To coordinate referrals and transfers of care
• Be responsible for the supervision of staff & their case load.
• Manage a small caseload
• Support coordination of duty
• Develop and maintain close professional relationships with different teams within Bentley House
• Work closely with the consultants, managers and admin, with particular focus on the allocated PCN/INT
• Ensure staff practice in a safe, appropriate and professional way with service users and their carers.
• Attend professional practice forums
• Chair clinical and team meetings as appropriate
• Represent the CMHH at various meetings
• Provide senior support to the Team Manager
• To assist the team to be compliant with KPI and monitor electronic records

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please review the attached Job description for more information about the role.

• To be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age presenting with high risk and high complexity. To assess for health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexibly manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
• To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and pro-active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
• To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• To provide professional leadership and supervision to members of the Community Mental Health Hub, including management of sickness and absence, performance and conduct policies, and compliance with statutory and mandatory training.
• To work in partnership with senior managers in the MDT, including the team managers, service managers and consultants, to support the management and development of the services within the Hub, including KPI's.
• To develop effective working networks and partnerships with community agencies to address the holistic needs of service's users
• To undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development including identifying own learning needs