Team Manager

Are you an inspiring and compassionate leader with a passion for improving outcomes for young people experiencing acute mental health difficulties? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation, collaboration and high-quality care are at the heart of everything you do?

We are seeking an exceptional Band 8A Team Manager to lead our Adolescent Outreach Team (AOT)--a dynamic, multidisciplinary service supporting young people aged 12-18 who present with acute mental health needs and significant levels of risk. The team provides intensive, community-based interventions designed to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, promote recovery, and keep young people safe within their families and communities.

The Team Manager will provide operational co-ordination and leadership for specialist and targeted Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS). Key to this will be managing performance, co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary decision and allocation processes, contributing to team capacity/job planning and prioritisation of CYPMHS resources in response to need.

• To be the operational team manager, line managing all non-medical staff within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective processes where this is delegated.
• To be responsible for overseeing the team governance in order to meet the requirements of the CQC
• Under the direction of the Service Lead to be responsible for leading and managing a modern, efficient mental health community service for a defined population in accordance with commissioned services.
• With the support of the:
  Leadership team;
  Senior Practitioners; and the Medical Consultant Lead, to lead and manage the delivery of high-quality effective evidence-based interventions which lead to positive outcomes for service users and carers.
• To lead by example, motivating and empowering others and promoting positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between all services involved in the care process.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

The post-holder, working in partnership with the Team Consultant Psychiatrist(s), Clinical Team Lead and the Senior Service Manager will ensure excellent clinical standards are maintained within the team, and ensure the best use of available resources by delivering positive outcomes for individual service users and their families. They will also be responsible for the contributing to the continued development of the service, working…