Team Leader

Job overview

Are you a Band 7 Mental Health Nurse looking to change roles or a Band 6 Nurse with mental health nursing experience seeking a promotional post?

We are looking for a qualified Mental Health Nurse Team Leader to work within a large transformed community mental health service to work with our existing leadership team. You will expected to be accountable in your own area of responsibility but will also have some shared responsibilities and will be required to provide strong and effective management and organisational leadership to ensure the delivery of safe  evidenced based clinical intervention and practice.

This is an opportunity to be part of a service that is well underway with the CMHT Transformation programme and will continue this work as part of the new 10 Year plan.

You will form part of the overall Leadership Team and have support from 9 Clinical leads, the Service Manager and Senior Clinical Lead and General manager.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities:

Operational Leadership

To support the Service Manager, Senior Clinical Lead and other colleagues within the service area. Provide operational line management and supervision to allocated staff. Ensure staff receive annual performance appraisals aligned with the Trust's policy and strategy.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Contribute to identifying/reviewing/re-designing services in response to user need, ensuring a safe, high-quality level of service is maintained.  Manage complex, challenging and changing situations, Obtains, analyses, and interprets information for key performance indicators/outcome.

Planning and Organising

To manage a number of complex activities e.g., the demands placed on the service area, staffing levels, data to inform and support service provision. Ensure the team have procedures and systems to support the delivery of a high standard of service.

Policy and Service Development

Accountable for ensuring that practice and policy changes are implemented.

Planning and Organising

To manage several complex activities e.g., the demands placed on the service area, staffing levels, data to inform and support service provision.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be responsible for: -

• supporting leadership staff to develop the team and service
• Leading the team service delivery.
• Line management and clinical leadership for staff within the team.
• Presentation and analysis of complex information and reports

For further information for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.