Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Team Lead - Talking Therapies
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Team Leader Position at Talking Therapies South Liverpool
Overview
The permanent post is based at Talking Therapies South Liverpool. There are other Team Lead secondment/fixed term opportunities across our Liverpool Talking Therapies team*
Job Description
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.
Key Responsibilities
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Support and Development
- Support the development of staff within a high-pressured environment.
- Hold a reduced caseload where required and deliver evidence-based interventions to clients.
- Be familiar with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and be committed to equal opportunities.
- Develop, support, and deliver training in innovative practice to staff.
- To raise awareness of the service with colleagues from external statutory and non-statutory organisations.
- 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.
- Support the development of links with Primary Care, Secondary Care, GP’s and service users in non-statutory organisations, especially services supporting minority groups.
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Management and Leadership
- Provide line management and PACE/annual performance reviews.
- Support staff and the service to achieve key performance indicator targets.
- Contribute to Leadership and Team meetings.
- Support the service in improving the quality of service provision.
- Support with complaint resolution.
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Clinical Responsibilities
- 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.
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Managerial/Leadership Responsibilities
- 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 to your line manager, whilst working within the agreed administration procedures.
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About Mersey Care
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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rachel Munn/Natalie Mutton
- Job Title: Clinical Team Manager/Operational Manager
- Email Address: Rachel.Munn@merseycare.nhs.uk
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