Recruiting for a Team Leader to join our Mental Health service in Enfield!

GBP 25,475 per annum plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more working 40 hours per week. This is a Fixed Term Contract until March 2021 with a possible extension.

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, energetic and committed Team Leader. The Barnet, Enfield & Haringey (BEH) Recovery House is funded by the NHS and is an alternative to hospital. The service consists of a 12 bed unit for vulnerable adults in acute crises for up to 14 days. The Service works very closely with the local CRHT Teams (Crises Resolution and Home Treatment Team), with mental health nurses visiting the site twice a day, a community psychiatrist once a week, an occupational therapist 3 times a week and a clinical psychologist by weekly. The role involves a large amount of close partnership working with the Trust, more specifically, with the local hospital wards, the CRHT team, the bed management team, Resettlement Team as well as other agencies. The role is highly suitable for those wishing to pursue a career as a social worker or psychology. Previous staff have gone onto other roles within the NHS, such as assistant psychologists, social workers, care coordinators and mental health associates.

Job Overview:
Team Leaders will be fully involved in all aspects of the day to day management of their designated contract/service, including line managing the relevant front line staff. Leadership and competence development in direct reports is a key responsibility of the role. You may also carry caseloads of service-users requiring support. The Team Leader will work within a strengths-based, recovery-orientated, change and outcomes focused approach that promotes service-users, families and communities as responsible co-producers of health, well-being and recovery. The post holder will support the Manager in the continual development and improvement of service delivery, including the implementation and delivery of Foundations of Recovery, and in creating strong working partnerships with Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey (BEH) Trust. They will work closely with the service/operations manager to ensure that the service delivers on all targets, both financial and those around the quality of the service.

Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure the service fulfils its role within the acute mental health care pathway through overseeing the delivery of recovery-based interventions and support. Work collaboratively and proactively with the team and external stakeholders within the local area
- Ensure that services are fully coordinated and are working collectively towards the achievement of recovery goals, and positive outcomes for each individual service-user and promote independent living
- Ensure services and duties are delivered in compliance with the law and relevant national and local policies quality, standards and guidance, including the CQC, and other quality standards
- Demonstrate experience and confidence in liaising with other agencies, attending ward rounds, review and discharge meetings
- Successfully lead and motivate the team to ensure the championing of and maintenance of a positive local culture within the service, working to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all your employee issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution
- Deliver effective supervision, reflective practice and team meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting and communication flows up/down are effective
- Carry a small caseload of service-users, depending on the needs of the service. Develop key business relationships with all appropriate external parties to ensure service delivery excellence and maximise new business opportunities in own patch
- Work with manager to set targets and monitor performance of the team
- Participate in and monitor the initial and continuous assessment of needs and ensure that support planning is carried out in line with assessed needs of the service-user

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:
- Experience of operational delivery of a service
- Understanding of complex mental health
- At least 1 year relevant management experience
- IT Skills - proficient in Microsoft Office software
- Through understanding of risk management planning and support planning
- Incident management
- Leadership to the team and acting as a positive role model at all times
- Supervision to Support Workers
- Experience of working in partnership with the NHS mental health teams

Desirable:
- Relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Knowledge of payroll
- Experience of working within Mental health

For the full job description, please visit our Look Ahead website.

We are looking for a Tenancy Sustainment Worker to deliver intensive housing management at our Young Peoples Foyer based in Torbay.

We are committed to offering short term housing and support to young people aged 16-24 years old who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Our role is to help young people settle from often chaotic lifestyles, start doing something productive towards employment, education or training, teach them the basic life skills required to live independently and help them resolve some of the issues that brought them into supported housing in the first place.
We are looking for someone who is resilient and able to work with this client group to help them address the issues in their lives and move forward onto independence.

In return, we provide a generous entitlement to paid holiday increasing with length of service, a choice of pension schemes, a healthcare cash back plan, and great opportunities and support to develop your career.
This role is being offered on a full time basis, working 37  hours per week on a rolling rota, to include weekend working.  Bandwidth hours will be 8am to 8pm.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointment to the post will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

You will be part of a well established team who work with young people resident at the Foyer. You would be expected to deal with any accommodation issues the young people may have and signpost them to the appropriate course of action.  You will work closely with the Foyer Manager to ensure that building safety is maintained, organising remedial works and repairs with contractors. 
 
 Intensive housing management tasks may vary from ensuring that LiveWest customers have access to appropriate services, support and accommodation of a good standard to explaining the licence, tenancy agreement and project rules or working closely with partners to resolve anti social behaviour.
 
The purpose of the role is to work collaboratively with support colleagues to ensure that customers are able to maintain their excluded licence and tenancies and can access services that are appropriate to their needs in line with our strategic aims, values, policies, and operational standards, and to maximise outcomes for customers and LiveWest.
 
Knowledge of benefits and welfare reform is essential.  You will need to have a good understanding of young people’s needs, safeguarding and emotional and mental health issues. 
 
The most important part of this role is to have pride in your work and have a positive attitude, a proactive approach and the confidence to support a diverse range of people.  You will be able to balance your passion and commitment with good organisational skills, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries. 
 
Now is an exciting time to join LiveWest, the largest housing association in the South West.  We are a leading developer of affordable and social housing in the South West. With 36,000 homes, and ambitious plans to develop a further 16,000 properties over the next 10 years, we have a vision to build real social change in our region, one front door at a time.

To assist and deputise for the head chef and supervise and train residents allocated to the kitchen as part of their drug/alcohol recovery programme, providing meaningful and challenging work for them. To ensure that nutritious meals are provided and that food hygiene and Health and Safety protocols are adhered to. You will have relevant qualifications for working in catering or demonstrable cooking experience; the sensitivity to work alongside men in their recovery journeys; the ability to manage your own workload and stay calm under pressure and a solid Christian faith and the ability to be an appropriate role model to our client group.

As Yeldall Manor is a Christian organisation operating a Christian programme, it is an occupational requirement (in accordance with Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010) that the successful candidate is a committed and practising Christian. This position is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check. If you are in recovery, a minimum of two years’ demonstrable clean time is required.

Please see the Job Description for additional information.

Full- or part-time to suit. Daytimes only (no evenings). To include some weekends.

Would consider temporary, permanent, or fixed-contract.