Job Introduction
We are looking for a Step 2 Senior Team Leader in the Kent & Medway NHS Talking Therapies Service.
This is an excellent opportunity to help lead and shape our Step 2 service as part of a close-knit and supportive Senior Team. As a Senior Step 2Team Lead you will manage, supervise and lead a team of Step 2Team Leaders, provide assessments and low intensity treatment and contribute to the operational development and clinical management of the Step 2 service. There will also be the chance to be involved in projects to improve service delivery.
Please note this is a hybrid role working in the Kent & Medway area.
Key Experience required:
Essential:
- IAPT Low intensity Worker/PWP Cert/Dip
- Demonstrable post-qualifying experience of delivering Low Intensity interventions
- BABCP/BPS registered
- Experience of risk-management
- Undertaking Clinical Audit, including action planning
- Experience of providing line management
- Experience of providing supervision
- Commitment to improving and striving for clinical excellence and customer service
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work individually or within a team and foster good working relationships
- Adaptive to change
- An awareness of and commitment to supporting and facilitating diversity and inclusion
Desirable:
- Experience of leading a team to deliver evidence-based interventions
- IAPT Low Intensity Supervisor Training
- Able to analyse information and write reports and present and argument
- Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
- Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
- Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
- Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
- Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
- Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
- Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
- The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.
Vita Health Group
Attached documents
- K&M Step 2 Senior Team Lead - FINAL January 2024.docx