Job summary
- Main area
- RMN
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-AC-21132
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swandean
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 PA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Team Leader
NHS AFC: Band 7
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Band 7 Team leader Community Rehabilitation Team.
Mental Health Rehabilitation offers: a whole systems approach to recovery from mental illness that maximises an individual’s quality of life and social inclusion by encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy in order to give them hope for the future and leads to successful community living through appropriate support.
The Sussex Community Rehabilitation Pathway provides high quality, safe and effective rehabilitation for adults with psychosis and complex mental disorder across Sussex. The team works collaboratively with patients who meet NICE guidance service criteria to deliver personalised rehabilitation in their local area to:
· Support a personally meaningful recovery
· Improve subjective quality of life
· Enable social inclusion and participation in the wider community to achieve personal recovery goals
The Sussex Community Rehabilitation Service operates both short and long-term pathways, with short-term pathways offering temporary community rehabilitation input to people for up to 16-weeks and longer-term pathways which offer input to people for an expected minimum of 3 years.
Main duties of the job
Key Duties
· To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team providing a high-quality service within the resources available within a defined area, and specifically to deliver on the following key areas:
· To coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on;
- Management of referrals including delivery of care
- Performance monitoring and management
- Line Management and supervision of staff.
· To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
· Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team
· To carry a clinical caseload as agreed with service manager and to take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.
· To ensure that the team functions in line with the care group core business.
· To coordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the service manager.
· To respond to SUIs as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
· To respond to SVAs as appropriate
· To respond to complaints
· To respond to communications regarding team issues
· To ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the team's business.
Working for our organisation
The team is currently based in the Chanctonbury Building on the Swandean site in Worthing but will be moving to the Worthing Integrated Care Centre in Worthing.
The team consists of Medics, Nurses, Social Workers, psychologist ,OT's, Dual Diagnosis worker, Admin , Peer support worker and support workers. The area covered geographically by the team is Adur, Arun and Worthing.
The team offers a supportive atmosphere and work well collaboratively together.
The Team Leader receives support and managerial supervision from the Service Manager and regular contact and support from the wider leadership Team and other community Rehab hubs in North West Sussex and Bognor.
Monthly leadership meetings take place and regular continuing professional development days.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· The post holder is responsible for leading and coordinating a team within a service area, delivered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Where an agreement with Local Authority Partners is in place (section 75 agreement) this will include relating to both organisations. In such instances the post holder is accountable to both organisations and may assume a lead role in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult investigations.
· To ensure recommendations from Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs), near misses, complaints and other incidents are implemented across all disciplines within the team.
· Ensure feedback loops with the organization through team brief and other communication routes within the care group.
· To participate in working groups or service development forums to develop policies, protocols or guidelines relevant to multidisciplinary / multi agency clinical team and to ensure any such development is shared across relevant care groups or identified staff groups.
· Ensure quantitative and qualitative vital signs measures (relevant to your care group) are produced, monitored and reviewed with the team, ensuring staff involvement.
· Lead on designated projects as required
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice
- Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
- Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
- Experience of managing staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind Care group Policy
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives
- Able to hold professionals and peers to account.
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non- clinical risks
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to travel across sites
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
- Sarah Cramp
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03003040060
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