Community Team Leader

Job summary

It is an exciting opportunity to join Central Norfolk Youth Mental Health Service who work with adolescents and young adults age of 14 to 25 years old. (Moving to 18 - 25 over the coming months)

Central Norfolk CFYP has dedicated a lot time and effort to develop youth pathway. Clinical Treatment Pathways are in place.

Community Team Leader for Central Youth South , will work along side the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist supporting clinical and operational leadership across the team

To provide visible leadership, promoting a values based culture and acting as a role model within the environment.

Supporting the leadership and management the team, helping ensure they are suitably trained, informed and competent to carry out the full range of duty and that there is a clear processes in place for regular and effective supervision, appraisal, objective setting and personal development planning.

Responsible for ensuring processes are in place to allocate new caseloads and efficient use of resources to ensure caseloads and the management of caseloads remain safe.

Providing advice and support to the clinical team in management of their cases

Ensuring care is delivered in a patient centred framework involving service users, families and carers.

Main duties of the job

To ensure safe caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory requirements and Trust Policies, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.

They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of resources to ensure service users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team's contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the Trust.

The Community Team Leader will support with professional governance and leadership within their area

About us

At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, inclusion is at the heart of how we work. We are committed to creating a fair, transparent and accessible recruitment process where every candidate has the opportunity to succeed.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in our workforce, including those from the global majority. We recognise that not everyone has equal access to opportunities and are working to address this.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and ensuring all candidates receive a positive and equitable experience.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Experience

Essential

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience.
• Evidence of leading service development within in a mental health setting
• Collaborative working between services and working in partnership with statutory and voluntary services.

Desirable

• Experience in providing leadership in a mental health care environment.
• Working in a community mental health team.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects.
• Build on/develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions and their appropriateness.
• Build on/develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion

Skills

Essential

• Develop and lead an age-inclusive multi-professional team and provide ongoing operational, clinical and managerial supervision
• Develop recovery-focused practice
• Establish performance management team structures and systems

Qualifications

Essential

• RMN, Dip SW, Dip OT or equivalent

Desirable

• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher degree or post-graduate certificate in area of clinical / therapeutic practice
• Post-basic teaching Qualification
• ILM certificate in management or equivalent

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).

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