Job summary
Employer heading
Team Manager - Barnet West Locality
Band 8a
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people. We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services.
We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored. Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.
Job overview
Team Managers x 2 – Barnet West Core Community Mental Health Team and Barnet South Core Community Mental Health Teams
BAND 8A plus HCAS – Permanent
Teams: Barnet West Core Community Mental Health Team and Barnet South Core Mental Health Team.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
To provide leadership in the West and South Core Community Teams and the wider service we are recruiting for 2 Team Manager- Band 8A. The role is full time Monday to Friday 9-5 based between Springwell Centre, Barnet and Redhill Clinic, Edgware and other sites within the Borough.
Barnet Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust, providing both mental health and community services, is an organisation that is going places! Our values and quality improvement are at the heart of everything we do, please consider joining us. We achieved a “Good” rating at our 2023 CQC inspection.
Our transformation plans have been supported by £25m in funding and have rolled out over the last next three years. With multi-disciplinary teams of experts working within the new Primary Care Networks and offering wraparound, holistic care to our service users and wider community. Our aim is to support the whole person as they live with, or recover from, mental illness and to offer them support with other challenges they may face, such as debt, relationship problems, housing, education or training. We will also focus resources on reaching those who currently face obstacles in getting the help they need.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be accountable for the allocation, deployment, prioritisation and delivery of community mental health services and for implementing and reviewing systems, policies, standards and procedures that ensure the provision of high quality services with frameworks agreed by the Trust and the Social Care. The post holder has overall responsibility for the management and development of integrated community mental health services in the area covered by the Team.
Working for our organisation
At Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Community and Mental Health Trust our staff and service users have worked closely to create a set of values that make sure people who use our services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery.
The Trust’s values are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working together
By coming to work at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust you will be joining a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job spec and person specification within the main body of the advert and has been attached within the "documents" tab
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Registered core profession: Social Work/SWE registered or BIA or Practice Assessor Or RMN + evidence of post -basic study or OT qualification or Psychology qualification or Psychotherapy qualification
Desirable criteria
- Nurse/Social Work Practice Assessor BIA trained Qualified AMHP
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years post qualification experience in mental health Management
- experience Staff supervision
- Knowledge of audit tools and protocols
- Mental Health Act 1983 as amended 2007 Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005
Desirable criteria
- Consultation & negotiation with commissioning authorities
- Experience of using Dialog + and the Management and Supervision Tool (MaST
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential criteria
- Risk management
- Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
- Written and verbal skills for face-to-face work with clients, letter and report writing and multidisciplinary negotiations and discussions
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
- Andrew Smith and Lydia Abbey
- Job title
- Barnet Community Service Leads
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07769227322
- Additional information
Please contact Andrew Smith or Lydia Abbey to arrange a convenient time to discuss the role .
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