Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Triage Team Leader to be part of our Chichester, Adur, Worthing and Arun Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHTs). You will be part of the clinical leadership team within the Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) and take a lead with our Triage Team, ensuring the safe delivery and management of referrals into ATS. 
We are looking for a practitioner who can function well independently, within a multidisciplinary team and build meaningful working relationships with our partners and aligned services within our NMHTs.  The ability to build trusting relationships, work collaboratively with, and have a sound working knowledge of stakeholders, including service users, families and carers, private providers and local mental health care teams will be essential. 
You will be joining a committed and dynamic team and will be fully supported and empowered to creatively develop many new ways of working towards building safe and responsive quality mental health services fit for the future. High personal resilience and a can-do attitude are essential. We would expect you to lead by example and be able to demonstrate our Trust values and behaviours.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need to have substantial clinical experience within a community mental health setting, demonstrate leadership acumen, and be able to work collaboratively across a range of partners.
You will have a strong sense of teamwork, be able to demonstrate how you have worked productively within a team and describe the values that matter to you. You will need to have a lot of initiative, creativity, flexibility, a good sense of humour, and to know how to engage with people to bring the best out of them. 
The role entails ensuring referrals into the ATS are triaged and managed within the agreed time scales and appropriate to clinical need. You will need to possess excellent assessment skills, as well as having working knowledge of mental health services and 3rd sector organisations. As this post is at the front end of our delivery service, you will need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to build trusting relationships with families, carers, local partners and within the NMHT.
The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teams and in a range of settings is essential.
The post holder will, in conjunction with other leads in the team, provide strong clinical leadership and expertise to the multidisciplinary team and NMHT, ensuring that high standards are maintained.
They will work closely with the medical team to ensure effective patient flow and discharge management is maintained.

Working for our organisation

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do. 
As a Lead in our team we can offer you:
Access to numerous wellbeing and support programmes
Excellent supervision programmes, with ongoing opportunities for leadership training and development
Flexible working patterns
Reimbursed parking
Child care vouchers
Access to a host of NHS discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
A position within a trust rated as ‘Outstanding’ for caring and ‘Good’ overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (dependent on length of NHS service) starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays
NHS Pension contributions

Additional Information
You will be expected to work across the Chichester, Adur, Worthing and Arun Neighbourhood Mental Health Teams (NMHTs).
This post has 2 shift patterns 8am - 4pm & 10:30am - 6pm, Monday to Friday.