Clinical Team Leader

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 7

Contract: Permanent

Core working hours: Mon-Fri 8-4; however, flexible working requests will be considered.

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working requests will be considered)

Job ref: 246-GYW

Site: HMP Norwich, Town: Norwich

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 gross per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 01/04/:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we'd love you to join us!

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles; please indicate in your application if this is something you require.

Job overview

Are you confident in taking the lead when faced with issues? Do you work well with people and teams? Have you got experience of leadership in a complex mental health environment? Do you have the skills to grow and maintain a confident team, with positive values and standards that strive for the best patient centred care?

If you have said yes to these questions, we have an exciting opportunity for you to further develop your career as the Clinical Team Leader of the mental health team at HMP Norwich.

Prisons are an environment that never stands still! It is one of the most challenging yet extremely rewarding places for healthcare professionals to work.

Please note it is a commissioning requirement that the successful applicant for this post is a registered RMN or RNLD.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Team Leader, you will be committed to ongoing service and clinical development to ensure the effective implementation and sustained delivery of mental health services to the prison population.

You will maintain compliance with key performance indicators and develop any Quality Improvement initiatives that could improve outcomes for our service users.

You will be responsible for the operational management of a range of aspects of service delivery within the team and for their clinical/managerial supervision, as well as providing professional governance and leadership.

In addition, you will be responsible for the following:

• Annual Appraisals and Line Management Supervision
• Supporting and overseeing new referrals
• Monitoring waiting times and overseeing caseload management
• Attending internal/external meetings as required including MDT, Professionals Meetings
• Maintaining effective collaboration with HMPPS partners and other stakeholders
• Undertake clinical audits
• Recruitment and retention

Working for our organisation

Our Trust values outlined that together we are a team, we are accountable, we learn and improve, and we are kind. If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Individual competence and suitability will be explored within interview. It is vital that the successful candidate demonstrates values and behaviours reflective of those of our Trust and a motivation and compassion to drive positive outcomes for those within the criminal justice system; these themes will be a focus of the interview process.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work, and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming; you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities; then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• a comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Person specification Qualifications

• Nursing degree or equivalent RMN or RNLD

Other

• Are you able to travel independently?

Knowledge

• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines

Experience

• Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management
• Collaborative working between services and working in partnership with statutory and voluntary services.
• Experience of providing high standards of care to people with both acute and enduring mental health needs
• Experience in leading service development within a mental health care setting

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures - these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.