Job summary

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We are looking for a Band 7 Team Manager to lead our Central Referral Hub (CRH), Unscheduled Care Service (UCS) and Inreach team within our Mental Health Services for Older People.

This is a fantastic opportunity for those with a wealth of experience in nursing and management who want to make a significant change in the community with the aim of helping older people improve their quality of life and avoid unplanned hospital admissions.

As the Team Lead, you will need to possess sound clinical skills and the ability to formulate collaborative care plans. A high standard of written and verbal communication is essential.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We also offer:

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support

Main duties of the job

We are currently engaged with our colleagues within the Mental Health Directorate of Leicestershire Partnership Trust in our Step up to Great strategy, as we seek to develop and transform mental health services. You will be involved in leading the teams in these exciting new developments.

For this role you must demonstrate both nursing and management experience as well as have excellent communication and organisational skills with a drive to make a positive impact within the team and this community group.

You will be using your knowledge of health and social care services as well as services offered by the community and voluntary sector, to guide your teams to support people to link with services and help overcome any barriers they might encounter.

Together with your team you will provide a comprehensive, efficient, and effective support service to the wider multi-disciplinary team supported by an agreed work plan.

We offer excellent benefits including the opportunity to work in a hybrid setting to meet the needs of the neighbourhood team.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.