Services for Older Adults in North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) are undergoing widespread, innovative transformation. This includes the development of an Older Adults Home Treatment Team for the NLFT north boroughs. The post holder will manage the Older Adult Home Treatment Team covering the boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
You will be leading and managing a multidisciplinary team and working with other Older Adult Home Treatment Team and Adult Crisis Team managers to make sure that home treatment services are innovative and high-quality services which have the service users best interest at its heart.
The post holder will lead on governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.
To take operational day to day management responsibility at team level using performance management systems to ensure the effective delivery of contract activity.
Work with the Service Lead to deliver Integrated Governance requirements and be responsible for delivering governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure documents relating to clinical practice.
To oversee the provision of expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within the MDT
To ensure clinical staff maintain accurate and up to date records.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lydia Luutu Job title: Older Adults Service Lead Email address: lydia.luutu@nhs.net Telephone number: 02087025423
To provide leadership to the clinical governance agenda for the service, delegating and managing those undertaking development work including audit.
Monitor the work of staff in assessing and managing of service user care needs through reviewing initial data collection; monitoring of their progress; feedback; discussion and reports at care reviews or Dialog+ reviews with the clinical team.
To ensure that the physical health care needs of service users is assessed by team members and / or that on-going physical health monitoring / review of patients / service users takes place.
At all times to act in accordance with trust policies in relation to risk assessment - including adult protection and child protection issues; being aware of the necessity to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults at all times when working with patients / service users.
To have detailed knowledge, understanding and experience of Mental Health Law, including the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007), the Community treatment legislation, the Care Programme Approach (1995), the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and national service frameworks relevant to practice.
To be aware of personal accountability and responsibility in respect of ensuring that cleanliness standards and practices are maintained in the clinical environment and that these are compliant with PEAT, The Hygiene Code, CQC requirements and Trust Infection Control protocols and procedures.
