Team Leader - Initial Response Service - The Bay

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
• Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job overview

We are very excited to be delivering our Initial Response Service (IRS). This service provides a front door to all of our mental health services within the Bay providing a 24/7 call handling, triage, planned care and crisis response function.

You will work closely with other team leaders in your locality and support the Service Manager in ensuring service users receive high quality interventions.

The post will be within the Bay locality, working from our new IRS hub supporting our urgent care pathway. You will be responsible for an established team of practitioners, senior / call handlers and admin staff, including the operational day to day running of the team.

This role is key to the new service providing a responsive single point of access for urgent and routine requests for help, including signposting to relevant services within and outside of LSCFT. A crucial part of the design, is to enable this service to work alongside the HTT’s, CMHT’s, EIS, and Older Adult services, therefore sharing skills and experience, promoting positive learning and development for all staff within their roles is vital.

The successful candidate will be a registered mental health, Occupational therapist or Social worker, the service will operate 24/7 and candidates will be able to negotiate shift patterns to fit in with their home and personal needs.

If you require any further information please contact us on the details provided.

Main duties of the job

You will be keen to embrace change and have a positive manner to support team members through change, provide strong leadership.

To provide clinical leadership and first line management for a community-based mental health team in a designated geographical locality within Lancashire Care Foundation Trust.

The post holder will work with senior clinicians and have responsibility for the delivery of high quality and high performing team to a defined population.

To ensure that staff in the team have opportunities for continuing professional development, in order to provide best practice and meet the requirements of registering bodies, and to drive improvements in standards of clinical practice and patient care in line with the NHS modernisation and Public Health agendas.

To provide direct clinical care to patients.

To work with senior clinicians to actively lead in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement and performance management agenda within an identified locality team

Working for our organisation

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person specification

Qualifications

• Must hold a relevant professional qualification, (RMN, SW, OT)
• Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma or management qualification
• Completion of, or working towards, management or Leadership Training

Knowledge

• Awareness of the Urgent Care Pathway principles and practice
• Knowledge of Assessment, Implementation, Monitoring and Review (including risk assessments)
• Demonstrate awareness of reflective and evidenced based practice (especially in relation to those suffering with a severe and enduring mental illness)

Experience

• Leadership skills/Managing Staff
• Prioritising duties and tasks
• Ability to work independently and as a Team Member

Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.

Personalisation is essential when submitting an application form to convey your skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively.

Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation.

Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.