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Job overview

Due to the departure of the current post holder, we now have a vacancy for a Band 7 Team Leader at the Norris Green Hub.

The successful candidate will work as part of the management team at the hub which includes 5 band 7 team leaders. The successful candidate will be able to access support from both the Operational Manager and their band 7 colleagues, the team itself is well established team with a skilled multi-disciplinary group of staff including a Senior Advanced Practitioner, Occupational Therapists, Consultants and Primary Care Mental Health leads. 

Our staff within the team pride themselves on delivering exceptional mental health care.

The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality team leadership across the different MDT's, supporting Community Transformation and leading staff to embed new ways of working to support the community we serve.

There is an emphasis on transformation work that drives contemporary mental health care and the development of how CMHT's are going to be expected to perform in collaboration with the Integrated Care Team model.

The successful candidate will be supported in their role and encouraged to develop the role and their professional skills. We strongly encourage interested candidates to visit, call or spend some time with us finding out about the work and values of the team as part of the application. 

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and managerial leadership within a CMHT across the North Liverpool catchment area. To work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent approach to the care of Service Users.

To build effective relationships with other care providers and ensure that views of Service Users, Carers, relatives and friends are given appropriate recognition.

To influence and shape evidence based clinical practice and to take a lead role in the implementation and support change

To operate in a role that is primarily therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with Service User in a variety of care settings.

Working for our organisation

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.