Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative & passionate Clinical Team Manager to work within the community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a newly forming team.
The post holder will promote effective relationships with a range of key partners and stakeholders by working collaboratively to ensure services are fit for purpose in meeting the needs of the community now and into the future.
The post holder will be responsive to the evolving and changing needs of the population, the workforce, and the NHS, utilising a dynamic and pragmatic approach to problem-solving and considering the best approaches & solutions to complex matters.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team and be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties. The team is currently based in Huyton, but this may change due to team expansion.
The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.
The post holder will be aligned to CERT and may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams, providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ensure continuity of quality service provision.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, as well as specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Job description and person specification outlines the main responsibilities of the role. Please do contact the team should you wish to have an informal conversation about the role in more detail.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained) e.g. RMN, RNLD, OT, SW. Desirable criteria Evidence of education to degree level or evidence of performance to equivalent level. Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria Management and supervision of staff. Effective team working within a multi-agency framework. Managing complaints/compliments. Effective change management. Positive leadership of a team. Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches. Audit and research practices relevant to clinical area. Assisting with effective budgetary management. Evidence-based and experience of reflective practice. Values
Essential criteria Continuous Improvement. Accountability. Respectfulness. Enthusiasm. Support. High professional standards. Responsive to service users. Engaging leadership style. Strong customer service belief. Transparency and honesty. Discreet. Change orientated. Skills
Essential criteria Effective leadership qualities and management styles. Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively. Ability to communicate in a variety of settings. Ability to formulate relevant reports. Delegation and coordination. Resource and budget management. Clinical and management supervision. Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines. Mentorship skills and record keeping. Flexible approach/creative thinking. IT skills. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details, in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You 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 & Person Specification (PDF, 391.8KB) OH Risk ID (PDF, 392.6KB) A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB) Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB) Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)
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We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative & passionate Clinical Team Manager to work within the community Enhanced Rehabilitation Team.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a newly forming team.
The post holder will promote effective relationships with a range of key partners and stakeholders by working collaboratively to ensure services are fit for purpose in meeting the needs of the community now and into the future.
The post holder will be responsive to the evolving and changing needs of the population, the workforce, and the NHS, utilising a dynamic and pragmatic approach to problem-solving and considering the best approaches & solutions to complex matters.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team and be flexible in terms of travel to undertake duties. The team is currently based in Huyton, but this may change due to team expansion.
The post-holder carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards of care within that team.
The post holder will be aligned to CERT and may be required to work flexibly across all divisional sites to provide response to the service needs of the physical and mental health clinical teams, providing cover as directed by the Service Manager to ensure continuity of quality service provision.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, as well as specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Job description and person specification outlines the main responsibilities of the role. Please do contact the team should you wish to have an informal conversation about the role in more detail.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained) e.g. RMN, RNLD, OT, SW. Desirable criteria Evidence of education to degree level or evidence of performance to equivalent level. Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria Management and supervision of staff. Effective team working within a multi-agency framework. Managing complaints/compliments. Effective change management. Positive leadership of a team. Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches. Audit and research practices relevant to clinical area. Assisting with effective budgetary management. Evidence-based and experience of reflective practice. Values
Essential criteria Continuous Improvement. Accountability. Respectfulness. Enthusiasm. Support. High professional standards. Responsive to service users. Engaging leadership style. Strong customer service belief. Transparency and honesty. Discreet. Change orientated. Skills
Essential criteria Effective leadership qualities and management styles. Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively. Ability to communicate in a variety of settings. Ability to formulate relevant reports. Delegation and coordination. Resource and budget management. Clinical and management supervision. Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines. Mentorship skills and record keeping. Flexible approach/creative thinking. IT skills. Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details, in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You 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 & Person Specification (PDF, 391.8KB) OH Risk ID (PDF, 392.6KB) A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB) Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB) Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)
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