Bexley Psychosis Pathway Team Manager | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Erith, DA83EE |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6193694/277-6193694-CMH |
Summary
The post holder will be responsible for managing and leading Bexley Psychosis Pathway’s ICMP Team.
The post holder will take a lead role in developing this pathway in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team, service manager and operational manager. The service is going through an exciting phase of evaluating the model and pathways.
The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership for a multi-disciplinary clinical team, providing a high-quality service within the resources available, within a defined area.
The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.
The post holder will participate in, and influence efforts, across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management, and assure safe transitions of care in the community.
The role will include the provision of strong leadership to the team.
The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:
• Management and leadership of pathways including referrals, assessment, and treatment.
• Performance monitoring and management
• Deliver a service within the agreed budget ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
• Take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy.
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts
• To ensure that there are forums within clinical teams for the dissemination and embedding of learning points from complaints and serious untoward incidents.
• Respond to communications regarding team issues.
• Ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the team’s business.
• Support the Trust’s reputation and that of all senior colleagues, maintaining a positive attitude with strong commitment to results.
• Promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust’s key policies on Equality and Diversity and use of recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems.
• Ensure that job plans are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.
• Deputise for the Operational Manager as and when required.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Performance Management:
To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities.
• Assume overall management accountability for the team.
• Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy.
• Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required.
• To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service.
• Establish, develop, and contribute to service developments within the locality and wider directorate.
• Understand the Trust’s key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group.
• To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes, and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety.
• Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are always followed.
• Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team(s).
Management Responsibilities
The Trust’s success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to:
• Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those.
• Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets.
• Authorised signatory, including travel expenses and payroll change forms.
• Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trust’s HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity, and optimum performance.
• Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development.
• Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery.
• Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy.
• Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums. and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback.
• Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level.
• Undertake other duties delegated by the Operational Manager in keeping with the scope and authority of the job description.
• Actively participate in the development of policies and procedures pertaining to the service
• Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery.
• To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024
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