Team Leader
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT)
Date: 11 hours ago
City: St Albans, England
Contract type: Full time
Are you an experienced mental health clinician (Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist)?
Do you enjoy working in a fast pace, supportive team environment where no two days are ever the same?
Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?
We are seeking to recruit a Team Leader to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in North West Hertfordshire. This post is to manage and oversee all of the First Contact Assessments that come into the Dacorum and St . Albans teams. The post holder will review and triage all of the new referrals into the team, and oversee the process for booking service users into their First Contact Assessments. You will work alongside the other leaders in the team but will focus on the First Contact Assessments. You will manage some admin staff who arrange the bookings and support the wider team with the assessment processes.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
We look forward to hearing from you!
You must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
The Successful Candidate Will
In Return, We Can Offer You
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Woodward Job title: Service Line Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07796 261 057
Do you enjoy working in a fast pace, supportive team environment where no two days are ever the same?
Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?
We are seeking to recruit a Team Leader to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in North West Hertfordshire. This post is to manage and oversee all of the First Contact Assessments that come into the Dacorum and St . Albans teams. The post holder will review and triage all of the new referrals into the team, and oversee the process for booking service users into their First Contact Assessments. You will work alongside the other leaders in the team but will focus on the First Contact Assessments. You will manage some admin staff who arrange the bookings and support the wider team with the assessment processes.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and encourage applicants from people of all ages and backgrounds, such as those with lived experience of mental health difficulties.
We look forward to hearing from you!
You must hold a full valid driving licence and have access to a car to use regularly for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
The Successful Candidate Will
- work in collaboration with the Community Mental Health Services Manager and a multidisciplinary leadership team
- ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery
- deliver the services required under the National Service Framework for Mental Health
- be an experienced mental health clinician
- have excellent assessment and risk management skills
- embrace and drive change and innovation
- be skilled and intuitive communicator with experience of providing leadership
In Return, We Can Offer You
- 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
- Employee Assistance Programme
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
Our Trust Values Are
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Woodward Job title: Service Line Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07796 261 057
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