Out of Hours Night Manager - Crisis Pathway

The Out of Hours Manager (OOM) will be responsible for the coordination and management of the staffing resource of a range of services inclusive of:

Acute Liaison Mental Health Services in Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals

Crisis Houses

Working with partners including Mind, Northamptonshire Police and EMAS

Reporting to the Service Manager within the Crisis Pathway

Leading, managing and coordinating the out of hour services within the crisis pathway

Ensuring safe and effective delivery of services

Support and manage complex cases

Rota management

The role will involve working closely with the OOMs who are based in the Adult Inpatient Service and there will be times where cross cover may be required.

Being on the on-call rota

Line managing staff

Providing supervision and reflective practice to staff

Being a point of escalation for the teams out of hours

Communicate and work effectively with partner agencies

Audits and ensuring standards of care are being met within the teams

Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade and/or hours of work at the post holders initial place of work or at any other of the Trusts establishments.

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.

We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.

Qualifications

Essential: - Holds Qualification for role (RMN/OT/SW); - Post qualification experience in mental health crisis role

Desirable: - Management qualification

Experience

Essential: - Experience of supervising others in previous roles

Desirable: - Able to work across multiple service - experience in management