Team Manager - Older People’s Intensive Home Treatment Team | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bexleyheath Centre Kent, DA6 8DX |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7260680/277-7260680-AAC |
Summary
Bexley Intensive Older People Home Treatment Team is a multidisciplinary team, providing a service during the week at 8am -8pm hours and during the weekend 9am-5pmto individuals in mental health crisis with the principal aim of providing an effective alternative to older adults inpatient care. This involves intensive clinical work over short periods of time to prevent the need for admission or facilitate safe early discharge.
The Intensive Home treatment team works in close collaboration with the other elements of the crisis services, Mental Health Liaison, Crisis line, as well with older people in-patient and community mental health teams, local authorities and emergency services.
The post holder will provide line management and clinical & operational leadership to the Bexley Intensive Home Treatment team, working closely with members of the team to maximise effectiveness and efficiency of service provision. The post-holder will ensure that the team delivers a high-quality service and collaborates effectively with other clinical teams within the older adult mental health directorates, and with partnership agencies. The post-holder will be responsible for maintaining effective communications with senior clinical and managerial personnel to ensure positive working relationships and contribute to service improvement initiatives.
To co-ordinate the activities of the team on a shift basis, prioritising and appropriately delegating all referrals for assessment.
To deputise for the team manager as required.
To provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff and students within the team.
To participate, and where required to do so, take a lead in agreed clinical and strategic projects associated with the provision of the assessment service. This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary in line with targets and NSF requirements.
To participate in the collection of robust data relevant to the activity of the team.
To assist the team manager in identifying and dealing with potential areas/events/situations, which may have an impact on the financial expenditure or reputation of the team.
To take responsibility for ensuring that staff within the team are deployed to meet prioritised needs.
To provide staff rotas ensuring the service is covered by appropriate skill mix and addressing service needs.
To demonstrate the ability to analyse, respond and lead staff through difficult situations as appropriate.
To participate in the planning and development of the service and sound financial management skills
To undertake the investigation of incidents and compile of reports as required to do so and within set deadlines.
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
To be responsible for the full bio psychosocial and risk assessment of clients presenting with a wide variety of mental health conditions. Following this, the post holder will be responsible for the formulation and planning of care / treatment.
To be clear that the patient is under the older community mental health team
To consider all necessary sources of information in formulating the assessment and care plan.
To ensure that effective communication is always maintained with the overall manager for Intensive Home Treatment for Older Peoples alerting them to any concerns raised without delay.
To be fully conversant with statutory and non-statutory services in the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich,
To be responsible for the setting and maintaining of standards of care.
To liaise with community and in patient teams regarding gate keeping of patients to offer an alternative to hospital admission and to expedite early discharge from in patient service
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in reviewing risk assessment/ management and care plans.
To carry out assessments of mental capacity and use this to inform appropriate treatment decisions.
To arrange the safe and timely transfer of clients to Oxleas older in-patient wards and units required.
To participate in the evaluation of the service in conjunction with the Senior Management Team and Quality and Audit Departments.
To liaise and consult effectively with all necessary personnel from the acute trust, Oxleas mental health teams, other mental health providers, community health services and the emergency services.
To communicate effectively and in a respectful manner with service users and carers.
To utilise evidence-based care.
To co-ordinate and prioritise referrals to the team and all other team activities on a shift basis.
To hold continuing accountability for the nursing care and management of all patients under the care of the Intensive Home Treatment Teamona shift basis.
To be accountable for one’s own practice and that of junior colleagues for whom one has supervisory responsibility.
To provide a comprehensive consultation - liaison service to teams and individual clinicians within the acute trust (emergency department and general wards), particularly in assisting them to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where patients are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviours.
To always makes sure that patient confidentiality.
To ensure that all organisational, policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.
To ensure good teamwork and working relationships with patients, carers, relatives, other professionals and the public.
To ensure that clinical supervision is used to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.
To ensure that own practice and that of junior staff remains within legal, ethical and professional parameters and is open to scrutiny from peers.
To hold a current, valid first level registration with the Nurses & Midwives Council
To ensure that staff training records are maintained.
To work at all times to actively promote the Trust’s Equal Opportunities Policy and to challenge discriminatory practices and behaviour
Management responsibilities
To co-ordinate the activities of the team on a shift basis, prioritising and appropriately delegating all referrals for assessment.
To deputise for the team manager as required.
To provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for junior staff and students within the team.
To participate, and where required to do so, take a lead in agreed clinical and strategic projects associated with the provision of the assessment service. This will include planning, implementing, reviewing and revising these projects as necessary in line with targets and NSF requirements.
To participate in the collection of robust data relevant to the activity of the team.
To assist the team manager in identifying and dealing with potential areas/events/situations, which may have an impact on the financial expenditure or reputation of the team.
To take responsibility for ensuring that staff within the team are deployed to meet prioritised needs.
To provide staff rotas ensuring the service is covered by appropriate skill mix and addressing service needs.
To demonstrate the ability to analyse, respond and lead staff through difficult situations as appropriate.
To work with colleagues to develop and promote the service’s philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives, taking responsibility for specific areas of policy and strategy delivery as required by management.
To participate in the planning and development of the service and sound financial management skills
To undertake the investigation of incidents and compile of reports as required to do so and within set deadlines.
To ensure that all complaints are addressed effectively according to trust policy.
To demonstrate an understanding of disciplinary and other Human Resource processes.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025
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