Job summary

NELFT's Intensive Home Treatment Team have an exciting opportunity for a team leader to join the team, covering Kent and Medway.

You will be a team leader of a skilled MDT including support workers, nurses, social workers, therapists, and a consultant. The pathway will be delivering evidenced based interventions to support young people presenting in mental health crisis with the aim of reducing admissions to psychiatric inpatient units and offering early discharge support from tier 4 units.

You will work closely and collaboratively with the community and inpatient matrons, NELFT professionals, KCC, schools and other partner agencies. You will offer clinical and managerial supervision to the team, offer clinical and operational guidance where necessary, attend, represent and lead professional and MDT meetings and develop audits and new processes to support the delivery of the enhanced treatment pathway alongside the matron.

You will also have the opportunity to work alongside and support the other pathway team leaders within the crisis pathway covering the crisis assessment and triage team, short stay services (including the health based place of safety) and the inpatient unit at KMAH.

Main duties of the job

The team are operating a hybrid model of working across both office and agile working. The position is for a pathway team lead to work 3 long days across 7 days in a 4 week rolling pattern.

This post is suitable for registered nurses, social workers or therapists with the relevant experience in mental health crisis, community or inpatient services. You should enjoy working within a busy and challenging environment, and must be able to work effectively under pressure. You must have a thorough knowledge of mental illness, evidenced based therapeutic interventions and clinical risk assessments and must be competent in the utilisation of a model of positive risk taking that supports the patient's independence and autonomy.

About us

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

NELFT's Intensive Home Treatment Team have an exciting opportunity for a team leader to join the team, covering Kent and Medway. Please see the attached Job description and person specification for further information.

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for some job roles, and this will be identified through filtering questions at the start of any job application on the Trac recruitment system.

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