Operational Team Leader

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can offer you:

- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- “In our Gift” providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

The Staffordshire Community Perinatal Mental Health Team (PMHT) provides specialist assessment and support for women across South Staffordshire, providing clinical interventions to women experiencing mental health difficulties, and those at risk of developing mental health difficulties up to two years after baby's birth. The service supports women experiencing moderate to severe mental health conditions.

The Team Leader will work alongside a large multidisciplinary team, providing operational leadership of the service with some clinical input also. This will include:

- Day to day management, supervision, and co-ordination of designated staff.
- Be responsible for monitoring sickness, annual leave, flexitime arrangements, appraisal, personal development planning and informal disciplinary matter.
- To be responsible for designated staff members target setting and performance management.
- Maintaining own clinical competencies by working clinically 10% of the week.
- To deputise for the Service Manager as required.

**You will need to have the following key skills and experience**:

- Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience of working in a mental health setting.
- Have a genuine passion for working with women and families within the perinatal period.
- Be able to work well in a team, across services and systems.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

The post holder carries day to day responsibility for the operational management and delivery of services within the Perinatal Service based in South Staffordshire in line with the Trust Values. The post holder will ensure that a high quality service is delivered within this specialist area and that all National and Trust targets and standards are adhered to including the recording of information within the IT systems. The post holder will be responsible for the management of staff within the team, leadership, the delivery and delegation of management supervision and ensuring appropriate clinical / professional supervision takes place as per Trust Policy. The post holder will also carry out clinical shifts to maintain clinical competencies for 10% of their time. In conjunction with the service manager and multi professional partners they will develop the provision and quality of perinatal services for patients. This will demonstrably reflect the principles of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, cost effectiveness as well as Trust and National Policy.

Please see attached job description for further information.