Team Lead- Eating Disorders

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Team Lead Post

NEWLY CREATED POSTS FOR SERVICE EXPANSION

Job Overview

Our service is expanding further, and we are delighted to be recruiting for a team lead o support the Team manager with their operational duties. This role is an exciting operational role and we are looking for candidates with experience in Mental Health with aspiration to progress in their career and to work in a fast paced innovative service. Please contact us for more details about the role. Candidates need to be qualified clinicians with core professional registrations (NMC, OT, Social Work, Clinical/Counselling Psychology, BABCP CBT).

Main duties of the job

We are ideally looking for a post holder who will have experience of working with adults and children within a life span eating disorders service. The Post holder will need to be experienced in working with or managing teams with adults and young people and families who have had an eating disorder or other complex mental health diagnoses. The Candidate will need to be passionate about delivering high quality care to complex mental health services and be innovative in their approach to developing new services and pathways within the transformation agenda. The post holder will need to be registered with a professional governing body and have experience in managing staff and teams.

You will be entitled to annual leave and bank holiday entitlement based on years of NHS services. Due to service needs, annual leave will predominately need to be taken within school holiday periods. 

Working for our organisation

Probationary PeriodThis 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). . Please ask us about more information during your interview.

Starting with NELFTNELFT 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. New starters will have the opportunity to 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 CEME Campus, Rainham, Essex, RM13 8EU (please note: in order to travel to this destination you will have to make the Dartford crossing and be aware of the ULEZ charges). Candidates will need to have business insurance when travelling by car to claim both travel and above charges on expenses.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Operational support to Team manager 

1) Support with recruitment; including review of job applications, interviewing, and planning induction package.

2) Sickness and absence management; including return to work meetings, staff wellbeing meetings and referrals to occupational health.

3) Roster management, support with annual leave requests; flexible working requests and study leave.

4) Organising and chairing meetings.

5) Undertaking audits as required by the service.

6) To contribute to audit and research.

7) To monitor and guide the team in ensuring we meet safety benchmarks set by NELFT and the CQC, as well as ensuring delivery of interventions are carried out in line with NICE, guidance with Routine Outcome measures to monitor the efficacy of intervention.

8) To support Operational Leads with day to day running of the service including monitoring governance and compliance.

9) Act up in the absence of the Operational manager for short periods.

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.

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.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

Relevant graduate qualification with recognised professional body A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject ( Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)

Desirable criteria

A minimum of a second-class Bachelor’s degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard in a relevant academic subject ( Psychology, Education, Childhood development, Social Work etc)

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial Band 6 experience within a Mental Health setting or equivalent

Desirable criteria

Relevant mental health experience Experience in NHS or equivalent service

Experience of providing Clinical Supervision

Essential criteria

Extensive experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision

Desirable criteria

Managerial or leadership training

Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively within a team

Desirable criteria

Demonstrate the importance of good record keeping and working in line with local policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of risk management, ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.

Desirable criteria

To guide the team to ensure safety benchmarks are met regarding delivery of interventions in line with NICE guidance and the use of ROMS

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.