Overview
An exciting opportunity to join us as the Team Leader for Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) Neighbourhood 3. We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner; nurse, social worker or occupational therapist. The team is a diverse MDT and offers teaching sessions, space for reflective practice and opportunities to champion your chosen areas. You will lead the PCMHT to deliver timely assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and psychosocial care interventions to the adult population in Lewisham with mental health needs. The successful applicant will oversee interface with partner agencies including Primary Care, Secondary Care and MIND to ensure effective service delivery and discharge planning. The PCMHTs are now working directly with Primary Care and sharing the same electronic record system and the successful candidate will receive training. The team works with our Care Process Model to ensure patients and carers receive standardised care.
Responsibilities
* Lead and co-ordinate the work of an integrated neighbourhood Primary Care Mental Health Team ensuring the provision of safe, effective, high-quality community services in line with statutory requirements and local policies.
* Directly supervise a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team of health, social care and voluntary sector professionals operating from a community-based site.
* Ensure the efficient triage, assessment and allocation of referrals.
* Maintain an overview of the safe and effective work of the team ensuring the continuous flow of service-users through the system.
* Enhance liaison with GP practices to maximise new and growing links and collaborative working.
* Oversee safe working practices and effective agile working directives for the team as a whole.
Working for our organisation
The PCMHT service offers a wide range of medical, psychosocial and psychological evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines. PCMHT also offers culturally sensitive approaches appropriate for the diverse population which it serves. The teams are the single point of access for most sources of referrals which they review, triage and assess as indicated. There is also a large advice and consultation function to colleagues in primary care, including advice and signposting. Following assessment some patients will follow the clinical pathway requiring short term support focused on engagement and stabilization (EAS). As part of the stepped care approach, the service also offers short term psychologically informed interventions and may provide a gateway to more specialist longer-term psychological therapies where indicated.
Responsibilities and development
* 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.
* Oversee a service user\'s care pathway, utilising available resources and the Patient Journey framework and lead the team in its implementation.
* Ensure systems are in place to support user and carer-centred involvement in the planning and provision of care.
* Ensure that staff receive regular supervision and appraisal, and are offered essential and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans and the needs of the service.
* Lead the team in setting, implementing and monitoring realistic and achievable objectives in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and 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 and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by: embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice; ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment; and treating people who use our services, their carers and our staff with compassion, respect and dignity.
Please note
* All applications for this post will need to be made online.
* Please read and understand the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria.
* The closing date listed is a guide and the vacancy may close earlier if sufficient applicants are received. Submitting your application early is advised.
* Completion of the online application may involve transfer to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. Subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
* If you have not heard from us within three weeks from the closing date, your application has not been successful.
* Priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees.
* If you are successful and appointed, you authorize South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.
* We are a smoke-free Trust.
* We welcome applications from people with lived experience of mental illness and consider them an asset to the Trust.
Additional information
NHS AfC: Band 7. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust serves London boroughs including Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, and nearby areas. The Trust values and supports flexible working.
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