Job Description

The Pennine Care Community Rehabilitation Team is looking to recruit a motivated and enthusiastic Team Manager to lead our multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will have significant experience of working with people with chronic relapsing and remitting mental ill health, including experience of working across a number of secondary care services.



The team supports service users to transition from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to living in the community, supporting people to improve their quality of life and work towards achieving their goals. A further aim of the team is to reduce the length of inpatient stay for service users from both acute and rehabilitation wards, incorporating least restrictive practice and the NICE guidelines for complex psychosis.



The team has a strong emphasis on the Recovery Model, working with service users using a strengths based and trauma informed approach to maximise their independence and autonomy to improve their quality of life.



You will receive regular supervision and your personal development priorities will be shared and supported through our appraisal process.



The team is a trust wide service covering all five boroughs of Pennine Care and it is essential that you are able to travel across the whole footprint of the trust. We are currently based at Trust HQ in Ashton Under Lyne although this may be subject to change. Our core hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.



To provide line management and clinical leadership to the staff within the Community Rehabilitation Team.



To effectively manage the resources within the team and the allocation of workload.



To ensure the team adhere to national legislation, local policies and procedures and eligibility criteria.



To be accountable to the Operational Manager for the performance management of the team and for the quality of work provided by the team.



To contribute to service development in collaboration with the Operational Manager and wider team.



To actively contribute to the overall management of the Community Rehabilitation Team, and to ensure the service works to agreed objectives.



To provide strong leadership to the Community Rehabilitation Team to ensure it performs in the most efficient and effective way ensuring all key performance indicators are met, whilst providing a safe and high quality service.



To participate in the Bronze on call rota depending on service need.



We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.



Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.



All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.



If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:



Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.



Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance



Access to Continued Professional Development



Involvement in improvement and research activities



Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service



Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel



Essential Criteria



Occupational Therapist, Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse with current registration.



Experience of working with service users with serious mental health diagnoses and complex needs.



Experience of working with people who are deemed difficult to engage, who may have behaviours that challenge or may have substance misuse.



Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care and joint working with outside agencies.



Experience of providing day-to-day clinical leadership and / or operational management of a similar service



Experience in the provision of clinical and line management supervision and annual appraisal.



Experience of working with multi-agency child and adult safeguarding procedures



Experience of working to objectives, within a performance management framework



Working knowledge of current mental health legislation and guidance to include Mental Health Act and the Care Act.



Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems including crisis care.



Working knowledge of medication management



Knowledge of risk management issues



Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic and high pressure clinical environment.



Evidence of well-developed risk assessment, formulation and management skills



Evidence of well-developed team leadership and management skills including change management



Ability to represent Pennine Care rehabilitation services and build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders



Evidence of the ability to lead, motivate and manage a group of skilled staff.



Experience of governance processes, including responding to complaints and completing investigations following incidents.



Ability to produce written reports that are clear, unambiguous and produced with agreed timescales.



Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service need.



Desirable Criteria



Completion of Preparation for Mentorship / Practice Teacher / Fieldwork Educator qualification.



Management or leadership qualification, or training for supervision and staff development.



Experience of working within rehabilitation settings.



Experience of working in a forensic setting



Experience of managing budgets



Experience in chairing professional meetings



Ability to provide education and training to different grades of professional staff both informal and by formal presentation.



Please refer to the and Person Specification to give you the best chance of being shortlisted.