Team Leader Fulbourn, England
Job description
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities Work within the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team for Older People (CRHTTOP), providing clinical leadership on the matters relating to mental health interventions and line manage the mental health staff. Clinically supervise mental health practitioners within the CRHTTOP to ensure that there is excellent communication and planning for mental health interventions across the team. Ensure systems are in place to receive and prioritise mental health referrals to the team and delegation to staff members with the level of skill and competence required to meet patient need. Lead on the assessment and care planning/ interventions for patients whose needs may frequently be complex and multi-factorial in nature, collaborating with the integrated team, Advanced Practitioners/ medical colleagues, social services and other stakeholders involved in the transfer of care.
Engage proactively with key stakeholders (including for example General Practitioners, Advanced Practitioners, the Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, specialist services, Social Services, independent/ private sector providers, from within and beyond the organisation) to identify patients who require supportive intervention and case management to prevent avoidable hospital admission and enable those individuals to remain in their own home environment. Negotiate the timely transfer home for those patients whose presentation does not require them to remain within or transfer to the acute/community hospital environment. Work in collaboration with the integrated neighbourhood team to provide information, prepare patients and their families/ carers for changes in the patients condition and actively encourage and support decision making and choice for end of life care including the use of fast track and CHC processes. Prioritise and manage own workload to ensure responsive care/interventions by staff with the level of skill and competence to meet patient need and provide advice and support to team members regarding the care/ management plan.
Undertake assessments and reviews for appropriate patients; being responsible for ensuring case management plans are in place; have been delivered; and complete relevant documentation. Ensure own leadership style facilitates effective communication, collaboration and motivation of staff and partners to achieve effective transfer of care. To assess, receive and review data regarding patients who regularly attend/ are admitted to acute care, liaise with the patients; and relatives/ carers as appropriate; and utilise tools such as Risk Stratification to enable the identification of appropriate patients It is a condition of employment that you are currently a registered professional and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration. To work with the area mental health lead and peer group to develop and maintain countywide management systems to demonstrate effective delivery of integrated care
