Mental Health Rehabilitation offers: a whole systems approach to recovery from mental illness that maximises an individual’s quality of life and social inclusion by encouraging their skills, promoting independence and autonomy in order to give them hope for the future and leads to successful community living through appropriate support .
The Sussex Community Rehabilitation Pathway provides high quality, safe and effective rehabilitation for adults with psychosis and complex mental disorder across Sussex. The team works collaboratively with patients who meet NICE guidance service criteria to deliver personalised rehabilitation in their local area to:
- Support a personally meaningful recovery
- Improve subjective quality of life
- Enable social inclusion and participation in the wider community to achieve personal recovery goals
Key Duties
- To be responsible and provide effective leadership for a clinical team providing a high-quality service within the resources available within a defined area, and specifically to deliver on the following key areas :
- To coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on;
- Management of referrals including delivery of care
- Performance monitoring and management
- Line Management and supervision of staff.
- To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope ensuring maximum value in terms of clinical and cost effectiveness.
- Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team
- To carry a clinical caseload as agreed with service manager and to take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting staff in management of such cases.
- To ensure that the team functions in line with the care group core business.
- To coordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the service manager.
- To respond to SUIs as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
- To respond to SVAs as appropriate
- To respond to complaints
- To respond to communications regarding team issues
- To ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the team's business.
The team consists of Medics, Nurses, Social Workers, psychologist ,OT's, Dual Diagnosis worker, Admin , Peer support worker and support workers. The area covered geographically by the team is Adur, Arun and Worthing.
The team offers a supportive atmosphere and work well collaboratively together.
The Team Leader receives support and managerial supervision from the Service Manager and regular contact and support from the wider leadership Team and other community Rehab hubs in North West Sussex and Bognor.
Monthly leadership meetings take place and regular continuing professional development days.
- The post holder is responsible for leading and coordinating a team within a service area, delivered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Where an agreement with Local Authority Partners is in place (section 75 agreement) this will include relating to both organisations. In such instances the post holder is accountable to both organisations and may assume a lead role in Safeguarding Vulnerable Adult investigations.
- To ensure recommendations from Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs), near misses, complaints and other incidents are implemented across all disciplines within the team.
- Ensure feedback loops with the organization through team brief and other communication routes within the care group.
- To participate in working groups or service development forums to develop policies, protocols or guidelines relevant to multidisciplinary / multi agency clinical team and to ensure any such development is shared across relevant care groups or identified staff groups.
- Ensure quantitative and qualitative vital signs measures (relevant to your care group) are produced, monitored and reviewed with the team, ensuring staff involvement.
- Lead on designated projects as required
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