Community Mental Health Hub Team Leader

Please review the attached Job description for more information about the role. 1. To be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age presenting with high risk and high complexity. To assess for health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty. 2. To prioritise time and workload, in a flexibly manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training. 3. To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy. 4. To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies. 5. To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and pro-active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery. 6. To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability. 7. To provide professional leadership and supervision to members of the Community Mental Health Hub, including management of sickness and absence, performance and conduct policies, and compliance with statutory and mandatory training. 8. To work in partnership with senior managers in the MDT, including the team managers, service managers and consultants, to support the management and development of the services within the Hub, including KPI's. 9. To develop effective working networks and partnerships with community agencies to address the holistic needs of service's users 10. To undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development including identifying own learning needs