Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal Community Team
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-AAUC-5893134-PB-D
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £30,892 - £34,681 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Team Manager (Perinatal)
NHS AfC: Band 7
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Perinatal Mental Health Service provides specialist care across the five SWLSTG boroughs and has strong working relationships with external agencies across these boroughs including midwives, health visitors, GPs and third sector organisations.
The service has recently been accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists Perinatal Quality Network which is a reflection of the high quality functioning of the service and the level of care we provide. The service is currently going through an exciting period of expansion and growth in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. This is a great opportunity to be part of and gain experience of the development of a service and its provision.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate mental health practitioner with significant experience in mental health care and leadership to join our specialist perinatal mental health service as a part-time team manager.
The post-holder will join a highly specialist multi-disciplinary team comprised of medics, nurses, occupational therapists, nursery nurses, social workers, psychologists, psychotherapists, peer-support workers and administrators. The post-holder will work closely alongside an existing full-time Band 7 Team Manager to jointly manage the service and will join a dynamic and multi-disciplinary leadership team.
Applicants will need to have a genuine interest in working with women, birthing people and their families in the perinatal period. Experience of working in the perinatal mental health field is desirable but not essential.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Service Delivery
- To manage services against agreed health and local authority targets and outcomes framework.
- To coordinate comprehensive mental health assessment for people referred into the
- To develop and sustain effective working relationship with staff in other relevant statutory and non-statutory
- To maintain a healthy, safe and productive work
- To work in a collaborative way with service users to promote choice and hopefulness to ensure a recovery orientated
- To promote and initiate any action to safeguard vulnerable
Staff Management
- To manage and develop staff through the Knowledge & Skills Framework or equivalent appraisal
- To enable other staff to reflect on their own values, priorities, interests and effectiveness through the provision of professional and clinical supervision in accordance with the Trust procedure.
- To offer support to clerical and administrative staff and assisting the Team Manager in overseeing clerical
- To prepare annual appraisals and evaluations for supervised staff, including the identification of training and development
Management Responsibilities
- To ensure effective budget management of staffing, commissioning and where appropriate, individualised
- To manage the care delivery and service coordination in terms of supervising staff, referrals, zoning and risk assessment , decision-making and
- To negotiate and problem solve in challenging situations where agreement is
- To chair meetings, attend meetings, respond to operational situations and
- To be responsible for managing referrals to the team.
- To have direct access to the team devolved budgets for service provision .To participate in training courses/seminars/workshops as
- To participative in, and where appropriate, leading departmental projects and committees, as directed by the Clinical lead/
- To be responsive to the need for informal supervision across the team as a
- To promote close working relationships between the team and other sections within the Trust and other relevant agencies.
- In conjunction with the Clinical lead/Manager, to advertise, shortlist, interview and appoint staff to the
- To ensure that staff are keeping professional records, and preparation of necessary
- To ensure staff are maintaining data
- To maintain contacts with other agencies and professionals in relation to responsibility for overall management of complex
- To ensure team members are following Trust and other relevant
- To assist the Clinical Manager in the preparation and presentation of periodic performance reports for the Trust and the CCG /
- To further develop the implementation of RIO in Adult Community
- To ensure team members adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct, keep up to date and meet professional requirements, in conjunction with the Professional
- To co-ordinate the day to day operational process, to include timely assessment, coordination of outpatient and home visits and other duties as
- To ensure the Trust and Social Services’ policies on staff supervision, health and sickness, safety and equal opportunities are adhered
Development
- The post holder will work with staff to develop clinical expertise and high standards of
- To help review and develop the team response in light of the changing demands made by the various
- To regularly undertake audit/research into client/service related areas and contribute to the application and evaluation of current research
- To develop methods at service level to monitor standards of care in liaison with the clinical audit department (quality assurance/research).
- To liaise with the College of Nursing in all matters concerning nurse
- To participate in the design and implementation of the audit of clinical
- To implement Trust Equal Opportunities Policies and positively contribute to the development of other policies as
- To ensure that defined data is recorded accurately by staff and transmitted to the clinical lead/Manager
Other
- To ensure those specific requirements deriving from outside agencies or statutory requirements are addressed and overseen
- To negotiate with legal firms where requests are formally made.
- To engage directly with service users and carers to ensure effective consultation regarding service standards and
Training and Development
- To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust
- To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
- To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered mental health practitioner.
- • Current and full UK drivers license
- • Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- • Educated to degree level in a health or social care discipline and registered with recognised professional body
Desirable criteria
- • Professional management qualification at diploma level or above
- • Project Management qualification e.g. PRINCE2 foundation level
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working at a Band 6 level
- • Experience of managing and supervising staff
- • Experience of case assessment, care management, Risk Assessment
- • Experience of multi-disciplinary working as part of a team to include experience of leading multidisciplinary groups
- • Experience of working in a mental health setting and in the community
- • Experience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
- • Demonstrable experience of working in a health or social care management role
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of project development and management
- • Experience of chairing meetings
- • Experience of deputising
- • Experience of managing budgets
- • Experience of working as Duty Senior Nurse
- • Experience of quality assurance monitoring
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Polly Grogan
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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