Job overview
The North Islington Core Team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to join the service on a secondment basis as an Interim Team Manager.
This is a fixed term post for 6 months.
The successful applicant will be a qualified and registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist. You will have extensive experience working in a community setting with individuals experiencing psychosis and of working in partnership with their families and their wider support network.
The successful applicant will be expected to provide strong clinical leadership, with an emphasis on service development, partnership working and risk management. The post involves providing clinical and line management to staff, chairing clinical meetings, and allocating work to the team. There will be a strong focus on meeting local performance targets as well as meeting national Key Performance Indicators.
The successful applicant will be well supported by the Service Manager and the wider Divisional Management Team. Applicants are advised the selection process will comprise of a written test and
interview.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Samantha Barclay, Service Manager 07812 494858
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.
Why choose to join the Partnership?
• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse
• To take operational day to day management responsibility at team level to
ensure the effective and safe service delivery.
• To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including Dialog +, records management, health and social care data entry, practice development, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints, safeguarding and risk assessments
• To provide leadership and line management to the team and support them in delivering high quality, outcome focussed care.
To promote a culture that fosters staff involvement and a progressive attitude to service improvement.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Louise Cantrell
Job title: Service Manager
Email address: louise.cantrell@candi.nhs.uk
Telephone number
07970 404 620
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Nov 2024