Job Overview
Secondment Opportunity (3 months minimum)
This is a key opportunity for an enthusiastic and committed individual who has a flair for working within a changing environment: developing and introducing evidence based models of care and who places service users at the centre of their practice. We look to recruit an experienced individual who is self-motivated, articulate and can join our management team, ideally with a detailed knowledge of the Crisis Pathway.
As this is a 3 month secondment, all applications must be with the approval of your current line manager who should be willing to release you and hopefully be able to backfill, knowing this is a 3 month internal secondment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will positively promote and develop a consistent, safe and high quality service and will actively lead the continuing development and delivery of this innovative and creative service.
This team manager will work collaboratively with stakeholders in Thames Valley Police (TVP) and Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) and across the mental health service and is accountable to the Crisis Pathway Service Manager. The post holder has responsibility for ensuring optimum performance within the teams, for monitoring service quality and developing services to meet national and local policies, targets and evidence-based practice.
This is a fast-paced role managing both teams and you must be able to provide a highly responsive service to our collaborative working partners in TVP and MKUH. Excellent communication and motivation skills are essential, as is the ability to promote strong leadership. A successful and competent track record as a Band 7 Senior Practitioner or equivalent is required.
Working for our organisation
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post-holder will have leadership and operational responsibility for managing the Mental Health Hospital Liaison Team with the Consultant Psychiatrist. The post-holder would be expected to work collaboratively with the Consultant Psychiatrist and with the Lead Clinical Psychologist in delivering a comprehensive high quality and user friendly service to Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH).
The post-holder will be jointly responsible for coordinating all work generated by or referred to the team. This would include work originating from the Emergency Department and all wards and outpatient services and any “new and innovative areas” as the service continues to develop.
The post-holder will be jointly responsible for ensuring that a responsive service is delivered at all times. This would include ensuring that structures are in place to guarantee rapid access to high quality evidence based assessment and treatment across MKUH.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree/ diploma level with a relevant qualification or equivalent experience.
- Clinical/post graduate management qualification or equivalent level of experience and proven ability to perform at this level
- Full driving license and use of a car for business purposes.
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate management training/qualification desirable
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of and demonstrable achievement in managing health/social care services.
- Management of resources and good track record with change management, efficiency savings and financial recovery plans.
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders in the redesign of services.
- Experience of project management and imaginative planning.
- Experience of managing a diverse practitioner team (multi-sites).
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of modernising services without additional resources.
- Lived experience of mental health issues
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders
- Ability to present information clearly.
- An open and facilitative style of leadership which can be adapted when necessary to ensure delivery of objectives.
- An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and nonclinical risks.
- Good project management skills and the ability to see through tasks to their successful conclusion within timescales and budgets
- Good performance management skills combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
- Ability to analyse and interpret performance and financial information, excellent numerical and presentational skills.
