Team Leader - Baldock, United Kingdom - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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Baldock, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Are you passionate about getting it right for children and young people in care?

Do you want to be part of a unique short-term service to support children in mental health crisis, prevent their admission to hospital or enable timely discharge from hospital and successfully move them on to a settled placement?

Do you want to be part of a Multidisciplinary team with integral Health, Social Care and Psychiatry expertise.


With Innovation at its heart, We are looking to recruit a team who want to be fundamental in the success of this first of its kind service In Hertfordshire.


This is a joint funded Ofsted registered children's home operated through an integrated health and social care staffing model to care for Children Looked After.


The home will provide up to 4 beds (3 short stay, one emergency in a separate annex) for children with mental health presentations who are repeat attenders at A&E /S136 suite or at risk of /or have had admission to Tier 4 provision.

The service will also admit children as a step down from Tier 4 provision.

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.

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:


Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it


JOB SUMMARY


New Farm House is an Ofsted registered children's home operated through an integrated health and social care staffing model (HPFT and HCC Social Services) to care for children looked after.

The home provides 4 beds for children with mental health presentations who may be repeat attenders at A&E /S136 suite or at risk of /or have had admission to Tier 4 provision (psychiatric inpatient unit).


The home uses the ARC theoretical framework (Attachment, Regulation and Competency) and Non-violent resistance interventions and ethos in the provision to create a warm and nurturing environment to enhance wellbeing of the CYP.

Training is provided and all workers are expected to work within this framework.

The post-holder will work within professional guidelines and under the clinical and professional supervision of a Clinical Lead alongside the Registered Manager.


The post holder will deliver a high quality service working with service users and staff to ensure practices that respond effectively to both individual and service need.

The role will provide effective clinical leadership to ensure all nursing staff receive the appropriate supervision and support in conjunction with an agreed professional development plan.

The post holder will adhere to Ofsted regulations and take the lead in the absence of the Registered Manager.


Furthermore, the post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining team systems and processes for effective operation of the team, including outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.

Clinical Responsibilities

  • To ensure effective nursing assessment and provision of a high standard of care within the
  • To provide mental health expertise, clinical support and direction for complex or high risk cases and support with escalating concerns with cases through the appropriate routes.
  • To take an active role in implementing preventative measures and clinical deescalation and management for children within the home to prevent crisis and AE attendance.
  • To provide a safe and containing environment that will help stabilise the mental health of children experiencing a mental health crisis in order to allow them to return to their original placement and thus enhance placement stability
  • To act as a positive clinical lead to ensure there is shared risk management and support in the management of children and young people in the New Farm.
  • To manage and develop the team who can meet the changing needs of the service user.
  • To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models a
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