AHP Clinical Team Leader – Older Persons Mental Health

Job title:

AHP Clinical Team Leader – Older Persons Mental Health

Company

NHS

Job description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care – seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you requireJOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.YOUR APPLICATION
It is important that you complete a formal application form as CV’s alone will not be accepted.We can provide all our job application materials in alternative formats so that these are accessible to everyone. Should you require any documents within this job pack in an alternative format, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].PLEASE NOTE: If you use a hotmail, msn or yahoo e-mail account, you will need to check your “junk” mail regularly as these email providers will divert any communication from this Trust/NHS JOBS straight into your ” junk” inbox.Job overviewAHP Clinical Team Lead – Older Persons Mental HealthWe have an exciting opportunity within our Older Persons Mental Health Services for an Allied Health Professional Clinical Team Lead role. We are seeking an innovative, flexible, experienced and dynamic clinician to provide both clinical and managerial leadership to our AHP’s across the Julian Hospital older persons inpatient wards.We are looking for a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist with specialist clinical skills and senior decision-making skills with a passion for quality improvement and using national best-practice guidelines to influence clinical practice.You will be required to use your specialist clinical skills to support service users across a range of wards as well as your strategic skills to support with the development of the service. You will be supported to develop both your clinical and strategic leadership skills.This role will be based at the Julian Hospital to cover the Older persons inpatient wards. There will be also the opportunity to work with the Older Persons community teams to support and influence Community Transformation.Main duties of the jobWithin this role you will:

• Provide clinical leadership across the AHP professions.
• Provide line management supervision to the AHP Band 6’s in the team and ensure a structure is in place for the supervision and development of AHP Band 5’s and 4’s.
• Advocate for the AHP workforce whilst acting as a central point of contact for leading on decisions relating to Older Person’s AHP services.
• Provide specialist clinical input across the service to support with complex clinical cases.
• Lead the local AHP meeting and to work with the workforce to ensure outcomes from feedback are actioned.
• Review audits with the wider team to support the development of clinical practice.
• Liaise with the Clinical Team Leaders to share this information to support line management supervision.
• Role model and foster strong working relationships between the AHP groups, to ensure that care is integrated and results in the best possible outcomes for service users.
• Oversee the roster for AHPs to ensure that the clinical needs of the service are met.
• Support and manage the attendance and management responsibilities for the team.
• Liaise with the wider teams to inform them of changes to service provision in response to changes in the workforce

Working for our organisation

• Support the recruitment and induction of new AHP staff members.
• Work closely with the Locality AHP Lead and Principal Lead to support development of the service delivered in order to improve service and service user outcomes.
• Be the conduit for taking information to and bring back information from internal and external AHP forums.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.Why work for us? We have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong AHP networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPlease see the attached job descriptions for further information. The Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist Job Description is pending Job Evaluation so may be subject to amendments.Please note:

• Build close connections with each of the ward managers to gain input into the management of the AHPs.
• For the clinical aspects of this role you will not be allocated to a specific ward, instead you will be required to work flexibly and support across the service to meet the clinical needs.

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobsPerson specificationQualificationsEssential criteria

• BSc/MSc Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy
• Registered with the HCPC

Desirable criteria

• Qualification in advanced clinical practice
• For Physiotherapist (member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy / CSP) or if Occupational Therapist (member of Royal College of Occupational Therapists / RCOT)

KnowledgeEssential criteria

• Specialist clinical knowledge of AHP professions working in mental health
• Working knowledge of standardised assessment tools and outcome measures

ExperienceEssential criteria

• Experience of working within Older Persons Mental Health Services
• Experience of working as a practice educator

Desirable criteria

• Broad range of experience in a range of settings
• Experience of working within NHS
• Management experience

SkillsEssential criteria

• Effective analytical & advanced clinical reasoning.
• Complex Manual Handling skills

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT – Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.Employer certification / accreditation badgesApplicant requirementsYou must have appropriate UK professional registration.This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.Documents to download

• Job description (DOC, 583.0KB)
• Values Based Recruitment – Candidates Guide (PDF, 360.6KB)
• Reasonable Adjustments – NSFT (PDF, 197.5KB)

Expected salary

Location

Norwich

Job date

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 23:02:18 GMT

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