Job Overview
We are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinicians into a Team Leader's role for Lambeth or Croydon teams. They will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence‑based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.
Responsibilities
* Overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
* Lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high‑quality evidence‑based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.
* Familiarise with perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and work confidently in partnership with agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery, CMHTs, Health Visitors and Voluntary sector.
* Display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. Provide consistent skilled judgments in clinical work.
* Have experience of working in a richly diverse inner‑city borough and understand the opportunities and challenges that this brings.
* Place the needs of service users at the centre of care delivery.
* Carry clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care and complies with the codes of Professional Conduct.
* Management of care and practice.
* Management of Financial and Material Resources.
* Management of Clinical Standards.
* Management of Human Resources.
* Management of Information and Communication.
* Management of the Environment.
* Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up‑to‑date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
* Provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co‑ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload.
* Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff. All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines.
* Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources.
* Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies.
* Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users' dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals' independence.
* Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting improving working lives within the confines of a safe service.
Equality and Diversity
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity, promoting equality and human rights.
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