Job overview
The Pennine Care Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Team Manager to lead our multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with people with chronic relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a number of secondary care services.
The team supports service users to transition from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to living in the community, supporting people to improve their quality of life and work towards achieving their goals. A further aim of the team is to reduce the length of inpatient stay for service users from both acute and rehabilitation wards, incorporating least restrictive practice and the NICE guidelines for complex psychosis.
The team has a strong emphasis on the Recovery Model, working with service users using a strengths based and trauma informed approach to maximise their independence and autonomy to improve their quality of life.
You will receive regular supervision and your personal development priorities will be shared and supported through our appraisal process.
The team is a trust wide service covering all five boroughs of Pennine Care and it is essential that you are able to travel across the whole footprint of the trust. We are currently based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne although this may be subject to change. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.
Main duties of the job
To provide line management and clinical leadership to the staff within the Community Rehabilitation Team.
To effectively manage the resources within the team and the allocation of workload.
To ensure the team adhere to national legislation, local policies and procedures and eligibility criteria.
To be accountable to the Operational Manager for the performance management of the team and for the quality of work provided by the team.
To contribute to service development in collaboration with the Operational Manager and wider team.
To actively contribute to the overall management of the Community Rehabilitation Team, and to ensure the service works to agreed objectives.
To provide strong leadership to the Community Rehabilitation Team to ensure it performs in the most efficient and effective way ensuring all key performance indicators are met, whilst providing a safe and high quality service.
To participate in the Bronze on call rota depending on service need.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
* Access to Continued Professional Development
* Involvement in improvement and research activities
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Essential Criteria
* Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse with current registration.
* Experience of working with service users with serious mental health diagnoses and complex needs.
* Experience of working with people who are deemed difficult to engage, who may have behaviours that challenge or may have substance misuse.
* Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care and joint working with outside agencies.
* Experience of providing day-to-day clinical leadership and / or operational management of a similar service
* Experience in the provision of clinical and line management supervision and annual appraisal.
* Experience of working with multi-agency child and adult safeguarding procedures
* Experience of working to objectives, within a performance management framework
* Working knowledge of current mental health legislation and guidance to include Mental Health Act and the Care Act.
* Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems including crisis care.
* Working knowledge of medication management
* Knowledge of risk management issues
* Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic and high pressure clinical environment.
* Evidence of well-developed risk assessment, formulation and management skills
* Evidence of well-developed team leadership and management skills including change management
* Ability to represent Pennine Care rehabilitation services and build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
* Evidence of the ability to lead, motivate and manage a group of skilled staff.
* Experience of governance processes, including responding to complaints and completing investigations following incidents.
* Ability to produce written reports that are clear, unambiguous and produced with agreed timescales.
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service need.
Desirable Criteria
* Completion of Preparation for Mentorship / Practice Teacher / Fieldwork Educator qualification.
* Management or leadership qualification, or training for supervision and staff development.
* Experience of working within rehabilitation settings.
* Experience of working in a forensic setting
* Experience of managing budgets
* Experience in chairing professional meetings
* Ability to provide education and training to different grades of professional staff both informal and by formal presentation.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification to give you the best chance of being shortlisted.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
* Registered professional with core profession i.e. OT, SW, RMNH
* Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level
* Experience of working with service users with serious mental health diagnoses and complex needs.
* Experience of working with people who are deemed difficult to engage, who may have behaviours that challenge or may have substance misuse.
* Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care and joint working with outside agencies.
* Experience of providing day-to-day clinical leadership and / or operational management of a similar service
* Experience in the provision of clinical and line management supervision and annual appraisal.
* Experience of working with multi-agency child and adult safeguarding procedures
* Experience of working to objectives, within a performance management framework.
* Working knowledge of current mental health legislation and guidance to include Mental Health Act and the Care Act.
* Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems including crisis care
* Working knowledge of medication management
* Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic and high pressure clinical environment
* Evidence of well-developed risk assessment, formulation and management skills
* Evidence of well-developed team leadership and management skills including change management
* Ability to represent Pennine Care rehabilitation services and build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
* Evidence of the ability to lead, motivate and manage a group of skilled staff.
* Ability to manage own emotions and deal with others in highly charged situations.
* Experience of governance processes, including responding to complaints and completing investigations following incidents
* Ability to manage the performance of staff in a consistent and sensitive manner
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service need.
* To be part of the bronze on call rota depending on service need.
Desirable criteria
* Completion of Preparation for Mentorship / Practice Teacher / Fieldwork Educator qualification.
* Management or leadership qualification, or training for supervision and staff development
* Experience of working within rehabilitation settings
* Experience of working in a forensic setting
* Experience of managing budgets
* Experience in chairing professional meetings
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What happens after your application has been received?
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to. The checks are:
* Identity verification
* Right to work check
* Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
* Professional registration and/or qualification check
* Occupational health assessment
* Employment history and reference validation
All applicants external to the NHS will be required to provide their to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.
If you are offered a position with us and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with. If the role you have been offered is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence own your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.
What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?
Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.
Other important information
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
* If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
* If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
* Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
* We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.
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