Team Lead - London, United Kingdom - West London NHS Trust

West London NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

H&F CRS is a multidisciplinary, community based service responsible for providing on-going holistic assessments, treatment and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness living in the community; in high and medium supported accommodation units and some in their own homes.

The team also facilitates step down of service users from acute in-patient units and from out of area placements (including repatriation).

H&F CRS enables, where possible, service users to be cared for in a less restrictive setting.

This Team Leader position will support and lead the team to effectively generate flow of service users through the pathway and to achieving living with greater independence.

The post holder will lead the Hammersmith & Fulham Community Mental Health Rehabilitation Team.

This is a multidisciplinary, community based service responsible for providing on-going holistic assessments, treatment and support to clients with severe and enduring mental illness living in the community; in high and medium supported accommodation units and some in their own homes.

The team also facilitates step down of service users from acute in-patient units and from out of area placements (including repatriation).

The service will enable service users with severe mental health problems to be cared for in a less restrictive setting and they will receive intense rehabilitation.

The post holder will support and lead the team to effectively generate flow of service users through the pathway and to achieving living with greater independence.

The post holder will provide effective managerial and clinical leadership in the team and will coordinate and lead on management of referrals into the team and will provide line management and supervision of staff.

The post holder will be involved in implementation of evidence based clinical practice and continued professional development of staff, participate in research and lead on QI projects within the team.

The post holder will provide support and mentorship to new staff, students and other health care professionals in the team.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives.

We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We're rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

As the Team Leader, you will provide effective managerial and clinical leadership in the team and will be responsible for supporting the Team Manager in providing high quality services within the resources available.

In return you can expect some of the following:

Additional Birthday Leave & Wellbeing Leave per year (Trust criteria applies)
Access to Praise Platform (supporting peer to peer recognition)
Recognition events for staff groups
Financial Wellbeing workshops with support/guidance
Reflective Practise session

H&F CRS is based close to public transport with a short walk to the office. The area is vibrant with access to various retailers, food outlets and the all-important coffee shops