Job summary
- Main area
- Early Intervention Service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7397446
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queens Resource Centre
- Town
- Croydon
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inc of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The postholder will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an Early Intervention in Psychosis model of service delivery, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The postholder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place. Furthermore, they will manage administrative and operational resources in a cost-effective manner, evaluating the standard of service delivered.
The postholder will co-ordinate multidisciplinary working, maintaining excellent communication and working relationships with all team members, and other services within the Trust, to ensure effective interface and continuity of care between disciplines and services. They will ensure that all referrals to the service are screened, that, where necessary, service users are provided with a full assessment of health and social needs and that aftercare is provided from the most appropriate service.
Lastly, the post holder will carry out clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.
Main duties of the job
Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting
mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group.
Oversee a service user's care pathway, utilising available resources and
Patient Journey framework and lead the team in its implementation. Ensure systems are in place to support user and carer-centred involvement in the planning and provision of care.
Ensure that staff receive regular supervision and appraisal, and are offered essential and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans, and the needs of the service.
Ensure that all service users are made aware of, encouraged, and assisted to use all services available to them.
Working for our organisation
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of mental health services to the people of Croydon, Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham as well as national specialist services. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Deputising for the Clinical Service Lead as required.
Establishing and building on excellent working relationships between other services within and external to the Directorate.
Ensuring that systems are in place which invite service users and their carers to comment on the quality of services they receive.
Ensuring pro-active engagement of the service with Research Projects
according to King’s Health partners tripartite mission. Implementation of the complaints procedure including investigation, response, and resolution.
Person specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- A working knowledge of all relevant mental health legislation including: Mental Health Act, Care Act 2014
- Knowledge and understanding of current issues in multidisciplinary practice
- An understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance
- Knowledge of the processes necessary for effective risk assessment and management
- Extensive knowledge of the principles or risk assessment and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an Early Intervention in Psychosis setting
- Post qualification training in psychosocial interventions or related subject
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification with affiliated professional registration – RMN with NMC registration or Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in relevant psycho-social intervention
Experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years experience, at band 6 or equivalent, using a range of clinical / managerial skills within mental health services
- Knowledge and understanding of the Early Intervention in Psychosis model of care.
- Knowledge and experience of working with young people experiencing psychosis and their families
- Experience of managing staff and providing supervision
- Experience of working with diversity, including with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds
Desirable criteria
- Experience of recruitment and selection of staff.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alvin Romero
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07711986525
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