Job summary
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.

About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. Feedback from our staff about working for the Trust is very positive and, in the NHS national staff survey, we regularly see a high percentage of staff saying their role makes a difference to our service users and that they would recommend the Trust as a place to work. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.

Job 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.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Evidence of current registration with NMC, GSCC or HPC.
• RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, theory and policies relating to mental health; such as Community Care Legislation, Mental Health Act, the Personalisation agenda, Social Inclusion etc.
• The ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide ongoing operational, clinical and professional supervision.

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
• Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
• Desirable
• Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment
• Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.