Job Introduction
Assessment Team Manager
Competitive salary
Home based with travel across England
Gray Healthcare provides dedicated quality care to people with a variety of complex needs to enable them to live independently in their own homes and achieve their goals. Due to our unique offering, we continue to expand the business and wish to appoint an Assessment Team Manager to manage and clinically support our team of expert assessors, alongside carrying out assessments.
A qualified mental health or learning disability nurse, occupational therapist or social worker you will have a solid background in the assessment of people with a range of complex needs as well as team management experience and good clinical supervision skills.
Our Assessment team each cover a specified geographical patch, carrying out detailed clinical assessments ensuring that we are in a position to deliver individualised support packages. The Assessment Team support the operational teams to develop the packages of care. Internally you will be a key part of the clinical team and work closely with the Clinical Director and the Commercial Director and externally with a range of commissioners, case managers and professionals.
As a passionate professional you will have in-depth experience of assessing and working with people with a variety of complex needs around their mental health, learning disability, ABI, personality disorder, autism and forensic backgrounds. You will have an understanding of continuing healthcare or transition of individuals moving from hospital/residential settings into the community and a collaborative, solutions-focussed approach to any issues associated with this. You will use your applied knowledge of the Mental Health Act, CTO’s and the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Best Interest Decision making to inform the direction of packages in your remit.
You will be an innovative thinker and natural communicator with strong report writing skills and computer literacy and an ability to work under pressure. Travel will be required as part of the role and along with being a car driver, an organised and flexible approach with the ability to stay overnight as required will be critical.
Main Responsibility
What’s in it for you?
This is a critical senior role supporting the organisation’s expansion and as we grow so will the role, it’s remit and the chance for you to develop and influence.
As Assessment Team Manager you will receive a competitive salary with additional car allowance, 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays, a healthcare cash plan along with regular supervisions with peers and our clinical lead, clear succession plans and CPD opportunities and professional registration fees are paid for.
If you would like to discuss this post, please call Neil Berrington, Clinical Director on 07919 991758.
Gray Healthcare are committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply.
Gray Healthcare reserves the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications.
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Gray Healthcare – A Disability Confident Employer
At Gray Healthcare we value everyone’s contribution. We want the best people to work with us to help us deliver the best service to people we support. If you have lived experience of disability or ill health we recognise the value that this brings. We want to encourage everyone to apply for our roles, regardless of their disability, and we have committed to making all reasonable adjustments possible to ensure that we attract and recruit the best candidates.
As a Disability Confident Employer we are committed to:
- Offer interviews to all applicants who best meet the minimum requirements for a role and who have a disability.
- Providing short-form and easy-read job descriptions upon request
- Accepting job applications in formats that enable candidates to demonstrate their suitability for the role in the best way they can
- Making all reasonable adjustments requested
This role will require travel around the south of England, car allowance will be provided.
If you would like to request us to make reasonable adjustments then please contact our Recruitment Team on 0151 255 2830 or email Recruitment@grayhealthcare.com and we will be happy to discuss how we can support you through the recruitment process.
About the Company
Our Approach
Here at Gray Healthcare we believe that no person should remain in an acute or long stay hospital environment for a day longer than is medically necessary. We do not discriminate with risk history, we work beyond the label and prioritise the individual and their right to live in the community. We are a company passionate about delivering truly person-centred support and are looking for a Support Worker who shares the same ethos. We are guided by our values in all that we do, We are inspiring – we believe in providing individualised support that meets peoples’ needs and enables them to achieve their goals. We collaborate – we believe that the best outcomes are achieved when we work together with shared aims. We are unique – we provide market leading, high quality and bespoke support that exceeds standards. We innovate – we challenge ourselves to be pioneering and find new ways to support people better. We are honest & transparent – we base our relationships on trust and openness regardless of how uncomfortable this may be.