Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, highly motivated, innovative, dedicated and experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide team leadership to Lancaster and Morecambe HBTT. You will be responsible for providing leadership and ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective and supports service users and carers.

You will be able to reflect LSCFT values of being kind, respectful, working as part of a team and always learning. You should have experience and demonstrate evidence of learning and leading improvement. Experience of working within the community Urgent Care pathway is desirable. You should also be able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting engagement with service users and carers to support service development.

You should be able to demonstrate evidence of care that facilitates a positive culture of patient engagement, a commitment to enhance the service user and carer experience and promote an environment that facilitates continued staff professional development. You should be able to demonstrate effective, evidence based care management, risk assessment and leadership skills. You must have the ability to positively influence and adapt to a rapidly developing service that is able to meet the needs service users and carers.

If you are interested we would welcome an informal conversation; Contact Melissa Crewe Melissa.Crewe@lscft.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job
To support the service manager in the running with first line management for a community-based Lancaster and Morecambe Home Based Treatment Team

The post holder will work with the team to develop the pathways, they will oversee supervision and mandatory training. They will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality and high performing team.

To support the team in ensuring that staff in the team have opportunities for continuing professional development, in order to provide best practice and meet the requirements of registering bodies, and to drive improvements in standards of clinical practice and patient care in line with the NHS modernisation and Public Health agendas.

To work with the Team and service manager to actively lead in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement and performance management agenda within an identified locality team.

About us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you'd like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Qualifications

• Must hold relevant professional qualification (RMN / Social Work / OT)
• Completion of, or working towards, Management or Leadership training.
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)

Knowledge

• Expert knowledge on mental health issues and how these impact on the individual, carer's and the wider community.
• Expertise in current best practice in Adult Mental Health , and awareness of relevant government directives and legislation
• Knowledge of a comprehensive range of Human resources procedures and the ability to put these into practice when acting up for the Locality Manager

Experience

• 2 years post registration experience in mental health setting (one year of which will be in relevant specialist area)
• Extensive clinical experiences including individual and group work in mental health specialties
• Leadership experience of the Multi-disciplinary team.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).