Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Liaison & Diversion Team Manager
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Team Manager - Nottinghamshire Liaison and Diversion Service
We are looking for an innovative and motivated Team Manager to support in the development, leadership, and management of the Nottinghamshire Liaison and Diversion service.
About the Service
The service is a community-based multi-disciplinary team delivering assessment, sharing information, referring, and supporting vulnerable people of all ages at all points of the criminal justice system up until sentencing or diversion.
Service delivery is in line with the Liaison and Diversion National Operating model, though there is a lot of scope for innovative, creative thinking and implementation.
The overall aim of the service is to prevent health and social inequalities, offering support at the earliest point of the criminal justice system.
Key to this service's success is close partnership working with justice agencies, health and social care, and third-sector voluntary agencies.
Role Overview
If you would like a challenge and the opportunity to be an inclusive, creative leader and manager, this job may be for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver informed clinical and managerial support/advice to team members.
- Provide leadership and direct line management to a team of multi-professionals.
- Support the ongoing development of various pathways within the service and wider service developments.
Requirements
Suitable applicants will:
- Be a qualified RMN/RNLD, Occupational Therapist/AHP, or Social Worker or hold professional registration (such as BPS/HCPC).
- Have experience of working with people with mental health problems, particularly working with service users with complex presentations/engagement issues.
- Be reliable and motivated.
- Be skilled in undertaking detailed assessments to inform the service user's treatment plan and formulation.
- Be able to demonstrate high functioning in risk assessment/management.
- Have skills to contain and manage high levels of emotional distress and disturbance in self and others.
- Be a compassionate, person-centered individual who is hardworking and can be flexible in their approach.
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Benefits
- Access to robust clinical and managerial supervision and career development opportunities.
- Commitment to ensuring the staff in the team are well equipped to work with the complex service users accessing the service, with well-supported training and a range of access to robust supervision.
About Nottinghamshire Healthcare
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium, and high secure environments including prisons.
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As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority, and as such, we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service, and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network, Health and Wellbeing Champions Network, and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Nikki Chambers
- Job Title: Service Manager
- Email Address: nikki.chambers@nottshc.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0115 9529400
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