Enhanced Care Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
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Role summary
The Enhanced Care Team Leader will manage the operational aspects of the enhanced care team, which provides additional support to patients across wards and departments who require extra care due to various needs like unfamiliar surroundings, medication, mental health issues, or challenging behaviour. This role involves ensuring safe and sensitive monitoring of patients' physical and psychological wellbeing, building therapeutic relationships, and overseeing the deployment of the team. The post holder will provide professional leadership, contribute to service development, and ensure high-quality clinical support while working within budget and clinical governance guidelines.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration as an RMN/AHP/Social Worker with extensive experience of managing a caseload of patients.
- Educated to a degree level or equivalent experience in Healthcare service.
- Mentorship course
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in relevant area of speciality supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate teaching certificate/module.
- Relevant post registered qualifications
- Safeguarding Adults Level 3
- PNA
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to use own initiative and organise and prioritise own delegated workload
- Ability to demonstrate problem solving skills and to be flexible and adapt to changing situations
- Ability to function effectively under pressure and deal with the unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- [contact details removed] effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal) and good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively as a team player, as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Well-developed IT skills
- Ability to work autonomously without direct supervision
- Able to chair multi-agency meetings
- Knowledge and experience of clinical governance
- Knowledge of patient discharge processes
- Knowledge of healthcare funding processes
- Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to patient care
- Experience of taking part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Extensive experience of managing an area; including management of rotas, resources, budgets and staff.
- Experience in staff / practice development including undertaking appraisals, supervision and Personal Development Plans
- Recent Complex Care experience
- Evidence of working extensively within Mental Health Nursing / Social care settings
- Extensive experience of Mental Health Service Provision including the Mental Health Act 1983
- Experience of delivering/supporting training
- An understanding of local health and social care commissioning
- Evidence of participation in using recognised assessment tools
- Experience of conducting own projects successfully and follow through action
- Experience of working with patients with a dual diagnosis - drug and alcohol
- Education and Training
- Current professional registration as an RMN/AHP/Social Worker with extensive experience of managing a caseload of patients.
- Educated to a degree level or equivalent experience in Healthcare service.
- Mentorship course
- Management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing professional development in relevant area of speciality supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
- Post graduate teaching certificate/module.
- Relevant post registered qualifications
- Safeguarding Adults Level 3
- PNA
- Knowledge and Skills
- Ability to use own initiative and organise and prioritise own delegated workload
- Ability to demonstrate problem solving skills and to be flexible and adapt to changing situations
- Ability to function effectively under pressure and deal with the unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- [contact details removed] effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal) and good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively as a team player, as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Well-developed IT skills
- Ability to work autonomously without direct supervision
- Able to chair multi-agency meetings
- Knowledge and experience of clinical governance
- Knowledge of patient discharge processes
- Knowledge of healthcare funding processes
- Knowledge of relevant legislation relating to patient care
- Experience of taking part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Extensive experience of managing an area; including management of rotas, resources, budgets and staff.
- Experience in staff / practice development including undertaking appraisals, supervision and Personal Development Plans
- Recent Complex Care experience
- Evidence of working extensively within Mental Health Nursing / Social care settings
- Extensive experience of Mental Health Service Provision including the Mental Health Act 1983
- Experience of delivering/supporting training
- An understanding of local health and social care commissioning
- Evidence of participation in using recognised assessment tools
- Experience of conducting own projects successfu
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Enhanced Care Team Leader
The closing date is 18 September 2026
Job summary
The enhanced care team offer additional support across all the wards and departments for patients who may require additional support due to, unfamiliar surroundings, medication, mental health issues or challenging behavioural needs.
Enhanced care is an integral part of a therapeutic plan and ensures the safe and sensitive monitoring of a patients physical and psychological wellbeing, whilst building therapeutic relationships. Enhanced care could be supporting 'cohorted' or patients who require 1-1 support.
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Main duties of the job
They post holder be responsible for the effective and efficient operational management of the enhanced care team. The enhanced care team leader will be responsible for working within the set budget, clinical governance, and staff development and training.The post holder will be expected to provide professional leadership within the clinical area and provide direction, and inspirational leadership to all members of the multi-disciplinary team working with the enhanced care team. The post holder will be involved in the development of protocols / guideline
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