Job summary
Are you an inspiring and compassionate leader with a passion for improving outcomes for young people experiencing acute mental health difficulties? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation, collaboration and high-quality care are at the heart of everything you do?

We are seeking an exceptional Band 8A Team Manager to lead our Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT)--a dynamic, multidisciplinary service supporting young people aged 12-18 who present with acute mental health needs and significant levels of risk. The team provides intensive, community-based interventions designed to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, promote recovery, and keep young people safe within their families and communities.

The Team Manager will provide operational co-ordination and leadership for specialist and targeted Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). Key to this will be managing performance, co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary decision and allocation processes, contributing to team capacity/job planning and prioritisation of CYPMHS resources in response to need.

Main duties of the job

• To be the operational team manager, line managing all non-medical staff within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective processes where this is delegated.
• To be responsible for overseeing the team governance in order to meet the requirements of the CQC
• Under the direction of the Service Lead to be responsible for leading and managing a modern, efficient mental health community service for a defined population in accordance with commissioned services.
• With the support of the: Leadership team; Senior Practitioners; and the Medical Consultant Lead, to lead and manage the delivery of high-quality effective evidence-based interventions which lead to positive outcomes for service users and carers.
• To lead by example, motivating and empowering others and promoting positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between all services involved in the care process.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities
The post-holder, working in partnership with the Team Consultant Psychiatrist(s), Clinical Team Lead and the Senior Service Manager will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team, and ensure the best use of available resources by delivering positive outcomes for individual service users and their families. They will also be responsible for the contributing to the continued development of the service, working in line with the philosophy of CYPMHS within the Trust.

The post holder will provide line management supervision to member in the team, including discipline lead. They will also work closely with the Service and Clinical lead in delivering evidence-based care and incorporating routine outcome measuring into clinical practice. The post holder will be a part of the local CYPMHS senior management team and support the CYPMHS Directorate Manager in the review, development, Implementation, and delivery of CYPMH Services, ensuring integration with corporate strategy and CYPMHS local and National priorities.

Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential

• Registered with the appropriate UK professional regulatory body as a Health or Social Care Practitioner, such as a Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, or other Allied Health Professional.
• Postgraduate qualification in a healthcare-related discipline, or equivalent postgraduate-level knowledge and experience.

Desirable

• Formal management or leadership qualification in Health or Social Care, with evidence of applying leadership and management principles within a complex healthcare environment.

Skills/ Abilities
Essential

• Demonstrable experience of managing services within health including service delivery, quality, performance and staff
• Excellent track record of delivering Key Performance and Quality Indicators
• Ability to respond to competing demands and to complex and stressful issues with empathy, tact and sensitivity but with ability to manage staff and others through difficult situations

Desirable

• Experience of working in a CYPMH Services

Personal Qualities
Essential

• A commitment to the engagement and involvement of service users in delivering a high-quality service
• Have a positive outlook and commitment to service development and innovation

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 (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).