Job overview
Band 7 Older Person Community Mental Health Team Manager Bury
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic nurse, Social Worker or OT to be part of Bury’s Community Mental Health Management Team.
Mental health services are undergoing transformation, and this is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop the team by providing strong leadership to ensure safe and high quality service provision.
The service has invested in a range of mental health professionals to support the transformation and the wider offer to patients in the Bury locality.
Pennine Care Foundation Trust is working with partner agencies to develop a new model of integration for CMHT and this appointment will be pivotal in delivering and supporting this new way of working.
Included in your responsibilities would be;
The day to day management of the team.
Supporting and developing the new model of working
Ensuring safe and effective service delivery within a framework of high quality practice
To work in partnership with statutory, independent sector and other agencies.
To demonstrate sound clinical decision making
To monitor and achieve key performance indicators
Car owner/driver essential to the post.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Donna Edgley (service Line manager) on 0161 253 7997.
Main duties of the job
- To provide strong leadership and vision to the team maintaining robust quality assurance to enable a safe high quality service to be delivered.
- To direct staff and provide expert advice and guidance on the management of service users care.
- To ensure that work allocated to staff is commensurate with their skill set and level of training.
- To manage and maintain systems for planning and allocation of work and for the setting and reviewing of targets, standards and priorities to the team.
- To ensure professional supervision systems are in place.
- To participate in the recruitment and appointment of staff within agreed HR procedures.
- To hold regular team meetings and develop the team.
- To respond to enquiries and complaints within the framework of the complaints procedure.
- To effectively manage the referrals to the team ensuring capacity is maintained and urgent cases are responded to in a timely manner.
- To demonstrate the ability to make sound managerial and clinical decisions in relation to mental health and acute physical illness for this client group.
- To chair MDT meetings, reviews, case conferences, planning meetings as required.
- To advise and make recommendations to the wider MDT with regard to the clinical management of service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide strong leadership and vision to the team maintaining robust quality assurance to enable a safe high quality service to be delivered.
- To direct staff and provide expert advice and guidance on the management of service users care.
- To ensure that work allocated to staff is commensurate with their skill set and level of training.
- To manage and maintain systems for planning and allocation of work and for the setting and reviewing of targets, standards and priorities to the team.
- To ensure professional supervision systems are in place.
- To participate in the recruitment and appointment of staff within agreed HR procedures.
- To hold regular team meetings and develop the team.
- To respond to enquiries and complaints within the framework of the complaints procedure.
- To effectively manage the referrals to the team ensuring capacity is maintained and urgent cases are responded to in a timely manner.
- To demonstrate the ability to make sound managerial and clinical decisions in relation to mental health and acute physical illness for this client group.
- To chair MDT meetings, reviews, case conferences, planning meetings as required.
- To advise and make recommendations to the wider MDT with regard to the clinical management of service users.
- To provide advice and managerial direction in line with Safeguarding Adults processes and procedures to the team ensuring appropriate referrals to the Local Authority are made.
- To effectively liaise and collaborate with other professions, statutory and independent agencies.
- To be responsible for recording and systematically evaluating outcomes.
- To maintain accurate and clinical records on all service user contacts are maintained using approved systems and processes, including local authority systems.
- To provide information and resources to non-mental health professionals in relation to the safe and effective management of service users with mental health / psychological problems.