Bank, Band 7 Team Leader

We are currently seeking an experienced Team Leader, at Band 7 to work via a Bank Contract, based in Borehamwood, for the Community Adult Mental Health Services. You will be joining our Temporary Staffing Team within HPFT - Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the Community Mental Health Services Manager, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery and provide day-to-day management, leadership and supervision to a multi-disciplinary community mental health service team.

The Team Leader will manage nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. You will also maintain a clinical role and/or a caseload dependent on sector need. The Team Leader will ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues, that professional practice meets standards set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.

HPFT provides services for service users with mental health, learning disability and children’s and adolescent mental health problems. Applicants should have some experience of working in a healthcare setting.

All applicants need to be able to evidence their current registration with NMC, GSCC, HPC or Social Worker England.

The post holder will provide day-to-day management, leadership and supervision to a multi- disciplinary community mental health service team.

The Team Leader will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures. The Team Leader may on occasion deputise for the Community Mental Health Services Manager in his or her absence, as agreed with the Service Line Leader.

You will plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of a health and social care assessment, care management and treatment service to service users within the designated community mental health service area, including overseeing referrals and ensuring that there is an even and appropriate distribution of work across the team, based on the experience of team members.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. Feedback from our staff about working for the Trust is very positive and, in the NHS national staff survey, we regularly see a high percentage of staff saying their role makes a difference to our service users and that they would recommend the Trust as a place to work. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: KAYLEIGH HAMMOND Job title: Team Leader Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07971639506