Community Team Manager

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 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

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

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JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
We are looking to recruit a Community Team Manager, to join our team providing services to His Majesty’s Prison Mental Health Services under the Integrated Mental Health and Justice Pathway.

Excellent organisational, communication, problem solving and decision making skills are a must for this role as you will be working in an environment where creativity on how to approach situations is key.

If you want to make a difference in people’s lives and change it for the better, we want you to be part of our fantastic team

**Main duties of the job**:
The Community Team Manager is responsible for the effective day to day management and leadership of the service including the following:

- Demonstrating leadership to the team;
- Coordinating available resources;
- Contributing to strategic objectives and outcomes of the service locally;
- Ensuring safe and effective delivery of support to the service users and their families/carers;
- Supporting and supervising the practitioners;
- Building relationships with internal and external partners;
- Supervision and appraisals;

**Working for our organisation**:
Benefits included with this role are:

- NHS pension
- Agile working opportunities
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
The Community Team Manger role offers a wonderful opportunity to be part of the Multidisciplinary Leadership Team, influential in shaping, developing and delivering care to meet the needs of the our service users, in partnership with all other stakeholders. We are looking for someone who is accomplished as a manager across mental health/health services and an ability to inspire, motivate and deliver clear improvements for patients and staff.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered

**Desirable criteria**:

- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management/supervision experience.
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team
- Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development.
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management.

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent communication skills
- Competent assessment skills, relevant to profession
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills.
- Able to effectively prioritise own work load
- Competent ICT skills

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines
- Build on / develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion and recovery
- Build on / develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects.

**Other**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to travel
- 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. _
- Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum