Ei Team Leader - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen with the Lambeth Early Intervention Service (LEO) to work with people experiencing a First Episode of Psychosis.

LEO is one of the largest MDTs in the borough working closely with other mental health services and agencies across the borough of Lambeth, including stakeholders in the Lambeth Alliance.

The post holder will bring excellent organisational and leadership skills as well as extensive experience and clinical knowledge.

LEO provides a comprehensive service to people who may be experiencing a first episode psychosis in Lambeth. The applicants will be committed to working within the recovery approach to deliver NICE concordant care.

We value diversity and want our teams to represent our population in Lambeth. With that in mind we welcome applicants who have lived experience as well as those from a BME background.

The post holder will be a highly experienced practitioner whowillhave overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an Early Intervention in Psychosis model of service delivery, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.

The post holder will work in collaboration with an excellent leadership team.

To lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place.

The role will require that all staff members are aware of the principles of an EI service model of care and that interventions are concordant to NICE guidance.

To manage administrative and operational resources in a cost-effective manner, evaluating the standard of service delivered.

To co-ordinate multidisciplinary working, maintaining excellent communication and working relationships with all team members, and other services within the Trust,

The post holder will carry out clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care delivery to our population.

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM.

It's important to us that you are valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers

Management of Care and Practice

Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
Oversee a service user's care pathway, utilising available resources and Patient Journey framework and lead the team in its implementation.
Ensure systems are in place to support user and carercentred involvement in the planning and provision of care.
Ensure that staff receive regular supervision and appraisal, and are offered essential and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans, and the needs of the service.
Ensure that all service users are made aware of, encouraged, and assisted to use all services available to them.
Ensure that the requirements of all mental health legislation are met with particular regard to the Mental Health Act 1983 (including amendments and Code of Practice) and Community Care Legislation (eg. CPA, Supervision Registers and Supervised Discharge etc), NSF, Child Protection and NHS Plan, Care Act 2014, and ensuring that all practices are within the guidelines set by the NMC and are in accordance with Trust policy.
Ensure that the Better Access to Early Interventions standards are upheld by managing an efficient referral system and supporting the delivery of the range if intervention recommended by the NICE guidance.

Management of Financial and Material Resources