Clinical Service Lead - London, United Kingdom - South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This is a wonderful moment to join our Trust. Southwest London & St.

George's is going through the exciting journey of transforming our community mental health services with substantial investments that will strengthen provision across all our boroughs.

The Adult Community service line is advertising for a full-time Clinical Service Lead (band 8a), for Richmond.

If you want to live locally and work locally, with an employer that offers flexible and agile working with great development and carer progression opportunities, then this may be the role you

About the team:

The Adult Community service line delivers care to adult mental health clients across the five boroughs of the Trust. The service line employs over 700 staff, and we care for up to 12,000 patients a year.

Our services include community single point of access teams, recovery and support teams, IAPT and primary care services, early intervention teams, complex needs services for personality disorders, clozapine clinics, psychotherapy and psychology services.

You will be working closely with colleagues across the Richmond Borough (internal and external) and wider Trust Community Service Line to deliver high standards of patient centred care within key quality domains.

We embrace agile working and support clinical managers to work flexibly around the needs of their services. The principle working locations for the Merton Clinical Manager is the Wilson Hospital, Mitcham.

The Trust provides subsidised parking fares for all our substantive staff.

Benefits:

We offer a number of excellent staff benefits and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance,we support a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working, job sharing, termtime working, compressed hours and working from home.
Career development,there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Subsidised car parking
You can park at any of our sites at a reduced rate of £20/month.
NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Eye examinations
Looking after your health
Cycle to work scheme
Car lease scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants

For a full list of our benefits please visit

The post holder will deputise for the clinical manager in their absence
Participate in the Trust On-Call Senior Manager rota and ensure that all concerns are escalated appropriately
Ensure there is compliance with professional bodies code of conduct as well Trust policies and procedures and support the management of employees performance, attendance and any breaches of discipline.
Support the Clinical Manager and team leaders to manage poor performance and develop the confidence and skills of team leaders to ensure that staff performance, sickness and absence are effectively managed.
Alongside the Clinical Manager the post holder will take a lead on the delivery of the quality aspects of community transformation.
In conjunction with the clinical manager the post holder will support safer staffing establishment and appropriate skill mixes in community settings
Implement an effective local retention and recruitment strategy for the borough and to take a lead in ensuring that all new staff receive an effective induction so that they may fully meet the requirements of their role.
Support the Clinical manager to regularly review existing staffing and ensure resources are deployed in the most appropriate and efficient ward ad identify staff shortages or exceptional demands and act accordingly.