Job Description

Our innovative Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service is seeking a creative and enthusiastic Community Team Manager to join our team.

We are a new service, based at Hellesdon Hospital, covering the Norwich, North Norfolk and South Norfolk area. We provide assertive support to adults with complex psychosis, to help them achieve their Recovery-focussed rehabilitation goals. The team is a pioneering multi-agency project, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology, psychiatry and pharmacy), we have fully-integrated substance misuse support from Change, Grow, Live (CGL), social workers from Norfolk County Council, recovery and peer support workers from Together, and mobile legal advice from Norfolk Community Law Service.

We pride ourselves on being a healthy and supportive team, and have received positive feedback from our staff. You can find out more about the work we do on our Twitter page @NSFTRehab.

The role of Community Team Manager is really important to the ongoing success of our service. We’re looking for a dynamic individual with excellent leadership skills to work innovatively and confidently. We are looking for someone who can communicate in a professional manner with a wide range of people to achieve the best outcome. The successful candidate will work closely with other senior rehabilitation colleagues including medical, psychology, social work, and allied health professional colleagues.

We are looking for someone who is passionate and knowledgeable about the care of adults with complex psychosis and rehabilitation needs, and their families. This post will provide you with the opportunity to develop and work within a specialist MDT setting, where you will hold a small caseload. You will also be responsible for supporting individual staff with developing their performance in their clinical work, and assisting with sound decision-making, safeguarding and quality assurance.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about governance and providing good quality care. You will be involved in supporting governance such as audit and best practice in line with Nice Guidelines and the Royal College of Psychiatrists “Quality Network for Mental Health Rehabilitation Services” community rehabilitation standards.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more details on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interviews are due to take place on Thursday 25thMay, but please note this date is provisional and may be subject to change. You will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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