Team Leader (Engagement, Activity & Physical Health)

Job summary

Greyfriars Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is a ten-bed ward, specially designed for people whose psychiatric condition requires them to be treated in a specialist environment for a brief period of time.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual to lead a multi-disciplinary engagement team, with an ability to plan, implement and audit a range of activities to a small number of adults with serious and enduring mental illness. The successful candidate for this role will have the opportunity to lead the highly successful Engagement Activity and Physical Health (EAP) team on Greyfriars.

The successful candidate for this role, will be responsible for the managerial leadership for up to 5 WTE EAP team members. This will involve offering and completing regular supervision and appraisals, in line with Trust policies. Overseeing the creation of the EAP team rota, allowing for staff to have access to up to 12 weeks of rota.

As a senior clinical member of the Greyfriars team, the EAP team leader will also be expected to support, screen and complete referrals for patients who may be referred to the ward in line with their current risk profile.

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Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will be required to provide clinical leadership to an acute mental health service, which provides interventions across a seven-day period and therefore outside of traditional office hours. This will involve assisting in the clinical practice development for up to 5 WTE from the EAP Team, including physiotherapy, exercise and health and activity co-ordinators.

This role will also rely on the successful candidate spending around 60% of their time involved in clinical activity including assessment, individual and group treatments. This clinical work will require the candidate to utilise the conceptual framework of the EAP Team to underpin clinical practice. Supporting the planning and implementation of specialised EAP individual/group interventions to achieved specific therapeutic goals.

We provide a service to our patients 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, so we are looking for flexible people who would like to work on this rewarding service to cover shifts throughout the week at varying times of the day.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Surveygives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.