Harrow Htt Team Leader - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The purpose of this role is to provide strong clinical direction and leadership (and along with the Manager, management responsibility) to all staff members in the Home Treatment Team to ensure that patients and their carers receive high quality mental health care (as an alternative to inpatient care).

The post-holder will be instrumental in ensuring team members feel well supported and developing and sustaining good relationships with other parts of the service promoting Crisis Resolution working.

Vaccination

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users and we will therefore be seeking proof of vaccination or medical exemption during the recruitment process.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post holder will:

Manage nurses, social workers and other staff on a daytoday basis ensuring high quality assessments and interventions are provided to patients and their carers.
To have an oversight of the Team's caseload, providing clinical advice to staff and ensuring safe transfer of care.

Along with the Manager, ensure adequate staffing levels and appropriate deployment of staff and resources.

Continuously liaise with other parts of the service and external agencies regarding patient's care, promoting effective communication and working relationships so patients also experience a more seamless service.
To provide education and training both within the Team and to external teams regarding effective crisis resolution in the community involving carers / significant others and ensuring a high standard of risk assessment.
To ensure all staff within the Team have high quality supervision ensuring high standards of care.

We are a very dynamic team. we have 2 band 8 managers who do job share.

the team has 5 other band 7 so you will have the chance to work closely with them and learn form the management experience.

we have 8 band 6 and 2 band 5 as well as 4 band 4.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

OVERVIEW OF MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ensure practice is in accordance with Codes of Professional Conduct and Mental Health Legislation, which respects differences in respect of gender, sexuality, religion, culture and disability.
Maintains an environment in which there is equal opportunity and a commitment to antiracist, antidiscriminatory and antistereotyping practise.
Always act in a manner as to promote and safeguard the interests and well being of patients, their carers / significant others and colleagues
Along with the Manager, be responsible for the day today operational functioning of the Team. To deputise for the Manager in their absence.
Participate as an active member of the Team, accountable for your practise and work in partnership with other health care professionals, patients and others in the delivery of care. This involves assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of care plans / care programs and the setting of standards of care.
Plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of a health and social care assessment and home treatment service for those in crisis as an alternative to inpatient admission. This includes managing and prioritising referrals and ensuring staff attending have suitable skills and experience and work is matched to level of experience and skills.
Support team members in the management of particularly complex or distressing cases jointly visiting with them and reviewing care plans.
Demonstrate within the Team, clinical leadership and knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions available to reduce distress for individuals experiencing an acute mental health crisis

These can include:

Supportive Counselling
Social Systems Interventions / Family Work
Brief Interventions / Problem Solving / Using CBT techniques
Medication (with education and support)
Practical help and support at home for patient / carers
Health Promotion
Coordination of the patient's care and ensuring they / carers have adequate support from other services and are receiving benefit entitlements
Act as a role model in the practise area, encouraging staff in their practise of thorough assessments with information from others, involving the patient's social system in care planning and thinking creatively with others to find solutions.
Ensure continuous discussion and overview of Team members work to encourage reflection / team review to keep standards high and help staff feel well supported.
Ensure the provision of Clinical Supervision to all grades of staff (via structures for individual supervision and availability of group supervision) and be responsible directly for supervision of Band 6 workers.
Facilitate a learning environment within the Team by arranging educational slots for Team members and others to