Job summary
- Main area
- Team Leader
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC7866321
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queens Drive
- Town
- Liverpool and Knowsley
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Pro rata/per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bladder and Bowel Children and Young People Team Leader
Band 7
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
Responsible for the delivery of the service within the team.
Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Manage and Lead the CYP B and B Service. Merseycare currently delivers in Knowsley and Liverpool.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Registration with relevant professional body
- V300 prescribing qualification
- Examination and Diagnosis qualification
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable criteria
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in Children’s services.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues and an Understanding how other agencies work
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Excellent IT skills
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
Skills
Essential criteria
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
- Risk assessment skills
- Self-management and motivation skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Research skills.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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
- Rhiannon Evans
- Job title
- Operational Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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