Community Team Leader - Perinatal Mental Health

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinician into a Team Leader’s role for Lambeth or Croydon teams. They will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.

The post holder will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery, CMHTs, Health Visitors and Voluntary sector.

You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistent skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.

There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of services users at the centre of care delivery. The post holder will carry our clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the codes of Professional Conduct. The post holder will have a person-centred approach to practice.

Main duties of the job

Management of care and practice

Management of Financial and Material Resources

Management of Clinical Standards

Management of Human Resources

Management of Information and Communication

Management of the Environment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
• To provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co-ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload.
• Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff. All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines.
• Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources.
• Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies.
• Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users’ dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals’ independence.
• Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting Improving Working Lives within the confines of a safe service.