CMHT Team Leader

The post holder will provide leadership, managerial and supervisory responsibility to a group of practitioners working as a multidisciplinary team including nurses, social workers, OT's and Psychological Therapists. providing assessments and interventions within adult community mental health services.

The numbers of staff supervised will determine how the workload is managed between active clinical work and management responsibilities.The post holder will assist the clinical manager and work alongside the other team managers in continually developing the service and ensuring the delivery of an Community Mental Health Team

Partnerships will include GPs, other mental health services, learning disability services, social care, physical health services, consultation to professionals in the primary care services and other adult mental health services including the voluntary sector.

Please note that this job description serves to provide an illustrative example of the duties and responsibilities the post holder may be expected to undertake during the course of their normal duties. It is not therefore an exhaustive list; the post holder will therefore be required to undertake other responsibilities and duties that are considered to be commensurate with the band.

Priority areas for this post will be agreed annually via the appraisal process.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value differenceWe Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needsWe Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partnersWe will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 4500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate's best interest to apply as soon as possible.

Qualifications

Experience