Community Mental Health Clinical Team Leader/ Psychiatric nurse
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Team Leader for Harrow Community Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join the team to work in the community with Adults with mental health needs and support the team with the day to day running of a busy triage mental health service
The role is suitable for nurses who have experience in working in the community, with the multidisciplinary team, individuals with mental health difficulties and for someone seeking to develop and apply their leadership and management skills.
Harrow Triage and Assessment Team, based in Harrow and Wealdstone is looking for a passionate RMN and Team Leader who is looking to make a difference whilst working in an environment that promotes staff development and training opportunities.CNWL is passionate about developing its own staff, driving them to go on to become more established practitioners and this post is no different.
The Harrow CMHH is an exciting area to work in as it is at the forefront of mental health transformation in line with the five year forward plan and Harrow services are pioneers in the Trauma Informed Approaches. To be considered for this post you will need to be a registered mental health nurse and be keen to develop experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams who care for adults within mental health secondary care sector.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a Clinical Team Leader in the team providing brief clinical and social care intervention for service users.- To Triage referrals and co-ordinate duty and assessments,
- Be responsible for the supervision of staff & their caseload.
- Facilitate appropriate clinical practice of the team including RMNs, care navigators, social workers and the administrative staff.
- Draw up the monthly rotas
- Develop and maintain close professional relationships with GPs, multi-agencies and other healthcare professionals.
- Ensure staff practice in a safe, appropriate and professional way with service users and their carers.
- Attend professional practice forums
- Organise and investigate Safeguarding alerts in line with local Safeguarding policies.
- Chair clinical and team meetings as appropriate.
- Provide senior support to the Team Manager
- To assist the team to be compliant with KPIs and monitor electronic records
Working for our organisation
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
- Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself
- Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust
- On-site shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison, LD and many more
- Local nursing, social work or OT forums run by one of the senior leads
- An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
- To receive referrals from SPA and GPs, triage, screen and undertake comprehensive psycho-social mental health assessments to establish care needs.
- To screen non-urgent GP Adult mental health referrals, identifying patients who are suitable for management in primary care according to agreed thresholds and with any adjustments to reflect MH resource available at individual practices
- To act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices with regard to patients with more complex mental health problems and/or co-morbidities
- To facilitate onward referral and rapid access to mental health services and other agencies in line with agreed thresholds and shared protocols and criteria, and/or to provide support/advise referring GP on effective management
- To promote and support self-care, recognising the important role of individuals, their families and carers as co-producers of health.
- To identify vulnerable adults and provide effective programmes of support that protect and promote their health and wellbeing, intervening appropriately when a person’s safety or welfare is at risk.
- To ensure that CNWL Trust and LA protocols are adhered to by team members. To cover for the absences of senior colleagues as appropriate and as required by service needs.
- To contribute to the implementation of the Clinical Governance agenda including Target Setting for Teams, Clinical Audit.
- Participate as a key member of the Borough Service to ensure collaborative and innovative practice.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available
- Computer literate to an intermediate/ advanced level
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Relevant professional Qualification - RMN
- Diploma/degree in Mental Health Nursing. Registration with NMC
- Mentorship in practice or equivalent (or willingness to complete
- Dual qualified as RGN or midwife
- Specialist Training in perinatal & infant mental health
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Qualifications / training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant years post and previous qualifying experience at Band 6 level
- Significant post qualification experience working with people with serious mental illness
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
- Experience of multi-agency working with serious mental illness
- Evidence of networking with third sector organisation
- Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
- Experience of supervising mental health / non-mental health professionals
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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