Team Coordinater Lincoln and Gainsborough

The Lincoln Older Adult Community Mental Health Team have a new and exciting opportunity to join the team in a Band 7 Leadership Role. This role is to provide and support the team with clinical expertise and to develop a service to meet the needs of the older adult population in the Lincoln and Gainsborough Locality. We require someone to lead the team to deliver of high-quality evidence-based care to older adults experiencing both functional and organic mental health problems. This role is a second band 7 within the Lincoln and Gainsborough Team.

The team is based at Lincoln and maintains excellent communication and close working supportive relationships with the wider OA CMHT across Lincolnshire. There is active involvement in Neighbourhood Teams and Place Based Teams as part of the Community Transformation Agenda.

We are currently reviewing our service model and this role will be a key leader in our next steps of clinical, organisational change and delivery. The post holder will have a sound clinical knowledge to support this change and support us in shaping our services to enhance patient and carer experiences.

We are seeking a leader who has a mental health nursing, social work or AHP qualification. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate experience required to support this role and an understanding of the agenda’s relating to Mental Health Care Needs of the Older Person for mental health and Memory Pathways within the service.

The post holder will support the Service Manager in providing effective frontline management of the multi-disciplinary community Mental Health team. In agreement with the Service Manager, the post holder will provide leadership and, in working in partnership with users will ensure access to the full range of specialist assessment and interventions.

Communicating with families and carers is a key part of this post. Ensuring that the team are involving families and carers in the patient care plans and care delivery is especially important. As the team coordinator you will have excellent listening skills and this skill will need to be applied to all the people that you are in contact with.

You will lead a team that comprises of Consultant Psychiatrist, junior doctors, senior mental health practitioners, AHPs and a Dementia Support Service. This will include taking responsibility for managing resources within defined budgets, managing performance indicators and supporting the clinical team to provide and evaluate programmes of care to ensure that our patients and carers are receiving the level of care required by our service.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future.

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

You will have experience at a senior level including experience of managing or supervising junior staff. You will be able to evidence ongoing professional development relevant to a leadership role and a working knowledge of delivering service improvement initiatives would be beneficial.
- To provide a high standard of clinical care in one’s own practice and the team’s practice.
- To work flexibly across a 5 day-a-week service.
- To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.
- To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.
- To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.
- To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans,