Team Leader - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Monitor and work with the team to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality.

To direct and supervise all staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.

To take the lead in setting standards for care based on sound research findings and to ensure that the ward team maintains high standards.

To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care ofthe ward team.

To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through qualification and experience to impart sensitive information e.g./ diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their families and to offer support to other staff to do this.

To ensure that team resources are managed appropriately to maximise care and efficient work patterns. This will include tasks such as management of attendance, annual leave and the use of extra resources.

To use skills gained through qualification and experience to communicate with members of your team in the implementation of change and in the interest of good,cohesive team working.

To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress or psychiatric symptoms in service users or where there is resistance in staff.

This may include situations where English is not the firstlanguage.

To liaise with other professionals offering services within the ward to ensure good communication and high standards of service user care.

To use skills gained through experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings.

To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by appropriate guidance and supervision of the team.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health care record.

Supervise and monitor the entries made by team members through performance management and audit. To provide reports and statistical returns to a variety of Trust departments as requested.