0-4 PIMHS Community Team Manager Norwich, England
Job description
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
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Job overview
Are you passionate about infant and pre-school child development and looking for something different? Then now is the time to come and work for NSFT Ages 0-4 Parent Infant Mental Health service as Community Team Manager. We would value someone from a clinical background who is interested in infant mental health and enjoys service development. There is scope for someone in this role to be supported to also work clinically within the team and to receive training in parent infant models of support, thus keeping one foot firmly within the clinical work.
Our dedicated team is based on the outskirts of Norwich City Centre at Mary Chapman House, and work Monday to Friday, 9-5pm – with flexible working available if required. We can also offer this post as a secondment opportunity.
Infants need a sensitive, nurturing relationship to lay the foundations for lifelong health. If important relationships feel tense or strained, children struggle to feel secure, and can become overwhelmed by their emotions.
All parents find parenting hard and stressful at times, even more so if there are additional difficulties. For some parents, this can lead to worry, sorrow or feeling unsatisfied about their relationship with their child. It is during these times that parents need skills in connecting with their infant through watching, listening, and understanding them.
Main duties of the job
As part of the system wide parent infant strategy work, the 0-4 service is now working more closely with perinatal and maternal mental health services under the specialist service parental umbrella, as well as with the newly developed Family Hub Services. This move hopes to nurture the workforce and scaffold the training and development needs of the staff across all parts of the system, improving access to robust specialist clinical supervision and training opportunities as well as giving us the opportunity for combined triage, regular interface meetings and co-facilitated groups.
As Community Team Manager, you’ll be working alongside a Service Manager and clinicians including clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, and parent infant practitioners.
We are at the forefront of Parent Infant Mental Health Services transformation in Norfolk and Waveney - with the National conversation increasingly focussed on infant mental health this is a hugely exciting time to be working in these services. With community awareness about the challenges families of infants and young children face, the 0-4 Parent Infant Mental Health team focus support on the development of healthy relationships which promote emotional health and resilience.
You’ll work as part of our established team and will play a key role in ensuring the smooth delivery of our service including clinical/managerial supervision, ensuring compliance, and improving pathways.
Working for our organisation
Don’t just take our word for it, here’s what our carers/service users have said about us. '
“I felt truly understood and listened to here for the first time ever. My needs were met as well as the child which I didn't expect i.e., like that we were treated together rather than separately. The service has been amazing.”
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 0-4 Parent Infant Mental Health team are currently redesigning treatment pathways and provision, working together to progress through the Children’s Mental Health Transformation Strategy. We’re looking for a highly skilled and driven manager to support us to get there!
We are able to offer time limited direct work with children and their parents / carers, from parenting advice and psychoeducation through dyadic and parent only interventions including Circle of Security Parenting, video feedback interventions, play based interventions and psychological interventions as appropriate to the needs of the relationship.
You will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team and partner organisations to improve the emotional health and development of infants and pre-school children who are experiencing emotional difficulties, through dyadic or family-based interventions. The role will include management oversight of assessment and intervention, the use of routine outcome measures and safeguarding practices.
Our practitioners’ role is to support the parent in developing their relationship with their baby or young child by providing short-term therapeutic work to improve their interaction and relationship.
The service offers direct support for families experiencing early difficulties whose needs cannot be met by universal services alone, in the form of targeted work with parents/carers.
We are looking for a dynamic and solution-focused team player who is passionate about high quality care. You will be outcome driven and able to work collaboratively with our organisational partners across Family Hub Services, Perinatal Services, CAMHS, Healthy Child Programme, Early Childhood and Family Service, Adult Community Mental Health Services, Health Visiting and other agencies to deliver a unified and safe service to babies, young children and their parents or carers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing degree or equivalent, Dip SW or Dip OT or equivalent, or HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
- Higher degree or postgraduate certificate in area of clinical /therapeutic practice
- Post basic teaching qualification
- ILM certificate in management or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate experience at a senior clinical level including staff management/supervision experience.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of providing leadership in a Mental Health care environment including service development.
- Experience with risk assessment and ongoing management
- Mentoring Experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills.
- Competent assessment skills, relevant to profession
- Effective analytical and decision-making skills
- Care planning skills
- Competent and effective treatment skills.
- Able to effectively prioritise own workload
- Competent ICT skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects.
- Build on / develop further knowledge of psychosocial interventions
- Build on / develop further specialist knowledge of health promotion and recovery
- An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
