Team Lead - Talking Therapies | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

This advert is for the post of Team Leader within Talking Therapies (previously known as IAPT). The post-holder will deputise for the Clinical Team Manager and will:

1. Support the development of staff within a high-pressured environment.

2. Hold a reduced caseload where required and deliver evidence-based interventions to clients

3. Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities

4. Develop, support and deliver training in innovative practice to staff

5. To raise awareness of the service with colleagues from external statutory and non statutory organisations

6. To take a lead role in a key area of service development which may include focus on KPIs;
Perinatal;
Long Term Health Conditions (LTHCs);
Older Adults; BAME / Diversity; LGBTQI+ etc. In line with service, trust, and national focus.

7. Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups

8. Provide line management and PACE/annual performance reviews

9. Support staff and the service to achieve key performance indicator targets

10. Contribute to Leadership and Team meetings

11. Support the service in improving the quality of service provision

12. Support with complaint resolution

This advert is for the post of Team Leader within Talking Therapies (previously known as IAPT). The post holder will have direct line management responsibilities for staff, and will sit under the Clinical Team Manager.

Clinical:
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service referral protocols, and refer appropriate clients on to the relevant part of the service or to external services. Ensure the appropriate formulation and implementation of NICE approved specialist psychological treatment occurs within the service, based on current guidance. Ensure psychologically based risk assessments and risk management plans are implemented in the service.

Managerial/ leadership.

Contribute to the on-going development of the service, ensuring that a range of interventions are available in line with the current evidence-base, providing an effective and efficient service, demonstrated by the achievement of KPIs.Provide one-to-one Line Management in line with service policies. Ensure staff receive appraisals and associated training in line with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Policy. To manage HR issues within the service.

Support staff and the service with performance elements. To keep all relevant records and information pertaining to area of responsibility and report information, where necessary your line manager, whilst working within the agreed administration procedures.

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 and 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 cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please note:

Evening work is likely to be required.

Please also see attached Job Description and Person Spec.

Professional

1. Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the employer and any regulating body, and keep up to date on new…