Clinical Team Manager (Older Peoples Community Services)
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Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Older People’s Service, we are looking to recruit a Clinical Team Manger to work within our North Older Peoples CMHT, MAS and YPWD Team.
If you are passionate about working in an Older Peoples Service and would like an opportunity to contribute to developing an effective service pathway for Older People living in the Community, we would like to hear from you.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to use their excellent clinical, interpersonal and management skills to provide continuous leadership and to ensure high quality of care is delivered to our older population who require input from secondary mental health services
The successful applicant will provide operational leadership to the North OPS CMHT, the Memory Assessment Service (MAS) both services are based at Millfield House, and the (YPWD) Younger People with Dementia Team who are based at St Marys Hospital.
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Main duties of the job
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will become a key member of the Community Mental Health Service Leadership Team, working closely alongside the Clinical Operational Managers and members of the Senior Leadership Team.
As part of your role, you will also work with various professions of the MDT these will include Lead
Consultants, Lead Psychologists/Psychotherapists and Clinical Team Manager colleagues from the Community Mental Health Team across the city, as well as CTM Colleagues from the urgent care services across Older Peoples Services.
Alongside this, you will play a key role in the quality improvements and innovations across the care group.
Within your role as Clinical Team Manager the services you shall manage within the North and West of the city will be as follows OPS CMHT, MAS and the YPWD Teams.
LYPFT also work in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society, and as part of your role as CTM you will have the opportunity to work in partnership with AS Managers and to offer general leadership and supervision to the Memory Support Workers who work across the North of the city.
The role requires highly developed skills in both clinical and management supervision, performance management, risk management and an overall approach that is both engaging and supportive to the Team, the wider MDT and the Senior Leadership Team.
Also, a key function of the role is to ensure effective service delivery is maintained
This also offers exciting opportunities for the successful candidate to innovate and implement evidenced based approaches to enhance the delivery of the highest quality care
The successful candidate will be supported in their own management leadership development through regular supervision, appraisal and appropriate study through further learning and involvement in external and internal organisational projects.
We strongly encourage interested candidates to contact us to discuss and or visit the service to meet us and pose any questions or queries you may have.
It is essential that you have a full UK driving licence and use of a car.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered with professional body i.e. RMN/OT/Social worker
Experience
Essential criteria- Significant experience of providing management and clinical supervision
- Experience of leading a team
- Relevant clinical experience
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.