Clinical Team Manager - Adult Community Eating Disorders

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Good luck and we hope to hear from you.

Job overview

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse/OT/Social Worker with experience of working within Eating Disorders, who wants to develop or consolidate leadership and operational management skills?

It is a county wide service, with a team base in Central Oxford.

You will be part of a team of dedicated and experienced multi-disciplinary professionals who deliver a range of evidence-based treatments for those with an eating disorder. The team are friendly, energetic and dynamic, valuing innovation and creative ways to develop the service, always focusing on excellent, evidenced based patient centred care.

Main duties of the job

You will hold overall management responsibility for all aspects of service delivery and operational matters for Oxfordshire Adult Eating Disorder Team.

You will lead a rich multidisciplinary team with a broad range of experience, providing great leadership with enthusiasm for service transformation and determination to provide outstanding quality care. You’ll be coordinating and motivating the team, having robust oversight of waiting lists and working with colleagues to ensure the team deliver against KPIs.

The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• To take operational responsibility for the Multi-Disciplinary Team. This includes monitoring and managing workloads, caseload management, job planning, management supervision, authorising leave and expenses and implementing systems to ensure safe, effective working of the service
• To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the team in providing a safe, effective and therapeutic clinical team
• To work in partnership with key agencies across Oxfordshire, regionally and nationally to ensure strong and active relationships and promoting Service developments and shared outcomes for people with an eating disorder
• To promote collaborative working with the Leadership team and wider team to provide an evidence based, high quality, responsive and safe service

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the Oxfordshire Out of Hours On-Call Manager’s Rota.

Working for our organisation

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

We provide a comprehensive induction programme and regular managerial, peer, clinical, and safeguarding supervision.

We encourage our team managers to lead on leadership projects, provide opportunities to attend leadership training and access to other external training as relevant to professional qualification and role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information and a wider overview about the role, please refer to the job description attached.

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma
• Understanding of the legal and social policy issues influencing the work environment
• Knowledge of eating disorder services
• Knowledge of latest healthcare policy e.g. NHS Long Term Plan

Qualification- Accademic/Skills/Professional

• Profession Health or Social Care Qualification
• Current professional registration with appropriate professional body e.g. NMC, HCPC
• Post qualification Management or leadership qualification and/or willingness to work toward this

• Teaching/mentoring qualification

Experience

• highly extensive experience in experience in a mental health setting, working with adults or young people with mental illness and / or learning disabilities
• Experience of leading a development or change within a service setting
• Post qualification experience in a mental health setting, or Eating Disorder setting (Inpatient or Community)
• Understanding of evidence-based practice and the ability to demonstrate how this influences clinical practice
• Experience of Management supervision and case management in a clinical setting.
• Experience of audit process at service level and a contribute to wider Trust audit

• Experience of developing practice (nursing, social work, occupational therapy, psychological therapies)
• All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
• Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
• Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
• We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
• We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
• Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
• Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing