team leader

You will work in collaboration with Primary Care Mental Health Services Manager and other Team Leader colleagues, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery for our service users., We are looking for a team leader to provide daily leadership and support the team's ongoing development. You will have a registered profession such as nursing, occupational therapy or social work., The successful candidate will:

• provide day to day operational management, leadership, and supervision to Primary Care Mental Health Services Staff
• manage primary care mental health staff which may include EPMHS staff and GP+ staff
• maintain a clinical leadership role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need
• contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures
• work with the Service Manager, to undertake the timely recruitment selection, appointment and induction of team members
• manage all aspects of the team's time i.e. Rota, Time worked, Annual Leave via the E Roster system.
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.,
• Ensure the provision of appropriate triage and advice to individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs, presenting in primary care
• Ensure the liaison with other services or agencies to support the primary care network response to mental health needs in primary care.
• Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities appropriate to primary care.
• Maintain service activities in line with the agreed referral and triage criteria.
• To provide a flexible service, responsive to Service User need and Stakeholder feedback.
• To develop the service in line with Trust strategy
• Maintain an effective skill/ professional personnel mix to provide a multi-professional team approach.
• Put in place systems to investigate and access a wide range of services designed to meet occupational, recreational, social and health needs in primary care.
• To provide information for service development and evaluation through the use of outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
• Implement risk assessment procedures related to the working environment, tasks and client management.
  
  RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification.
• Evidence of current registration with the NMC, GSCC or HPC.
Desirable criteria
• Cert or Dip. in management., Extensive post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
• Experience of working within or with primary care services
• Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
• Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.
Desirable criteria
• Experience of working within or with primary care services, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout, HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007.