Team Leader - Bury, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Bury, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join our new Learning Disability Admission Avoidance Service, Radcliffe Place in Bury.

Our new service will offer people with a learning disability with or without autism specialist support targeted to avoid admission to acute care across Greater Manchester.

Working closely with stakeholders from across Greater Manchester this service will provide an additional option wherever less restrictive options providing a therapeutic environment and intervention plan are been considered.

The new service consists of a 4 bedroom model, will be operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and providing a range of specialised therapeutic interventions within a care setting with a tailored design.

Working closely with a specialist clinical team the post holder will support the Unit Manager in coordinating care delivered by specialist support workers.

We are looking for a Team Leader who can support leading a team in response to sometimes challenging situations, is an effective communicator and has clinical expertise.

The Team Leader will support in embedding our learning disability and autism operational standards and to further develop quality improvements.

The Team Leader will support the Unit Manager with the 24 hour operational management of Radcliffe Place.

Service User Experience:

Supporting the Unit Manager and multidisciplinary team, ensuring that their team are responsive to service user needs and that the clinical documentation is robust.

Supporting the Unit Manager to ensure that the team are working effectively both as individuals and as a team

This includes supporting:
recruitment, retention, development, and support and performance management of support workers.

Support with the management of local Governance Processes, including auditing and evaluating the services as required.

Proving team leadership into the management of the clinical environment and co-ordinate care.

To support staff with undertaking specialist assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care needs of all the service users.

To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students. To support the Unit Manager with recruitment, deployment and management of staff.

Pennine Care is a Mental Health and Learning Disability NHS Foundation Trust providing a wide range of care within the community and inpatient services across a large geographical footprint across Greater Manchester.

The Learning Disability Care Hub sits within the Specialist Network and consists of a number of teams that are friendly, caring and compassionate and strives to deliver outstanding care and treatment to service users with a learning disability and / or autism.

Our services have a strong multidisciplinary approach consisting of multiple professionals

Please see Job Description for full duties.

To promote a clinical environment that is conducive to recovery and the development of independence and social inclusion for patients within the service.

To lead and be responsible for the clinical management of the service with service users, who may present with complex behaviours that challenge.

To allocate and support individuals with delegated work and review progress as agreed. To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.

To work as a member of the MDT in the management of care and the response to changes in service users' health.

To support with making service improvements and continuous development of the service.

To be responsible for the provision of the necessary physical care to help service users i.e., personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical.

To be responsible for ensuring that customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, are actively respected and that service users are supported to fulfil these.

To be responsible for the provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.

To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.

To be responsible for the undertaking of physical observations as follows:
blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately.

To be responsible for the recording of all contacts with service users in case notes in line with Pennine Care NHS Trust record keeping policy.

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carer's, visitors, staff and others. To e