This role combines clinical leadership and line management. The Community Team Manager role provides visible leadership in keeping with Trust values.
The Community Mental Health team provide a safe, caring and responsive, high quality service to service users aged over 65 who live in the North tyneside area. This service is for those people whose needs cannot be met in Primary care with associated complexity and risk requiring access to a dedicated MDT with clearly defined pathways of care
The manager will maintain a small clinical caseload, for which they are personally accountable and professionally responsible.
The Community Team Manager role is responsible for the operational leadership and
management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for clinical/ managerial
supervision of professional staff according to trust values.
* To ensure safe, caring, responsive, high quality service is provided to service users, their families
and carers within the clinical environment by ensuring compliance with Statutory and Regulatory
requirements and Trust Polices, pathways, standard operating procedures and protocols.
* They will allocate work accordingly within the team to ensure effective and efficient use of
resources to ensure services users and carers needs are met, and monitor the team's
contribution and performance to the overall objectives of the trust.
* The manager will maintain a small clinical caseload, for which they are personally accountable
and professionally responsible.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a
collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership
style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership
of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within
teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
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