Team Leader Hemel Hempstead, England
Job description
The Hertfordshire NW Wellbeing Team delivers talking therapies to people experiencing anxiety problems and depression. Our team consists of High Intensity CBT Therapists and Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners, social worker, trainees and administration staff. You will need an understanding of the key objectives for IAPT, and a passion for developing and supporting people.
This is a unique opportunity for a qualified health professional (e.g. nurse,
occupational therapist, social worker or someone with clinical IAPT experience) to join our established team based in St Albans and Hemel Hempstead
This first line management role may be an exciting step for you from a practice role into operational management. Secondary care and primary care IAPT experience can both be of real value for this post. You will work together with another team leader and the service manager, and alongside our clinical leadership team, focused on the day to day operational management, leadership and supervision of the team.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…”
The Wellbeing Team Leader will work in collaboration with the Service Manager to ensure that the highest possible standards of practice and service delivery are maintained. As part of this, the post-holder will have a key role of managing clinical and non-clinical operational systems and processes within the team
They will use their developing management experience to lead on service changes and developments.
They will help lead a multi disciplinary team, with involvement of service coordination, staff wellbeing, supervision, client support, complaints and service improvement.
They will have opportunity to maintain a positive and supportive team culture, following trust values and to respond actively to the needs of the team.
