Access Team Lead - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lambeth Talking Therapies is looking to recruit a new Access Team Lead to join our team as a fixed term secondment cover post.

Initially this will be for 3 months (September-November 2023) with the possibility of extending to 12 months.

You will work closely with the rest of the management team to promote and support the delivery of the service.

We are a friendly, supportive and innovative team of individuals.

We are committed to supporting the development of our staff who come and work for us by providing high quality supervision and opportunities for development.

The post:

- leadership role in a key department
- help set the future direction of the service, and lead on making it happen
- clinically supervise HIs and PWPs
- clinical caseload as senior therapist

Band 8A + Inner London Weighting

The people:

- qualified and experienced HI therapist

IAPT supervisor

- a track record of managing projects and improving services
- energy, drive and a passion for providing the best care

Lambeth Talking Therapies is a friendly, creative, social team. We support each other to work hard, and there are lots of opportunities to take on responsibilities and develop.

High-Intensity Therapists receive specialist CBT supervision and training delivered by senior staff as well as the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma - a national centre of clinical excellence and research innovation within SLaM.

Most staff members are working up to two days in the office and the rest of the time remotely, we plan to continue some remote working longer term, as well as having time in our bases in Brixton, Stockwell and Streatham.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

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.
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
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Access to SLaM counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Staff restaurants

Key Responsibilities:

PLANNING, MANAGING AND EVALUATING THE DELIVERY OF ACCESS SERVICES WITHIN LAMBETH TALKING THERAPIES
Assessing the service need at triage, and current and future capacity requirements
Planning and managing the recruitment process to meet this need
Monitoring and evaluating service activity and outcomes
Managing the induction, training and development of Access staff
Liaising with SPA and STS to ensure that clients are appropriately referred between services and receive a safe and high quality service with minimum duplication and uncertainty
Developing and updating policies and procedures for the delivery of high quality clinical services
Commissioning and monitoring external provision of triage services as agreed
TEAM MANAGEMENT
To agree job plans, performance targets and development goals with your team through the appraisal process, and monitor and support staff in their achievement
To foster a supportive and performance focussed team ethos through your interaction and communication with the team, your own behaviour, team meetings and supervision
To provide day to day line management for your team (annual leave, sickness etc)
To induct new team members, agreeing job plans, and ensuring that they are trained and supported to do their jobs, and meeting them regularly to support their development and performance
Ensuring good twoway communication between your staff and the service management, through monthly team meetings and informal links
SERVICE LEADERSHIP
To share responsibility for the direction and development of the service, taking an active role in the monthly service management meeting, leading team and whole team meetings
To provide regular reports on the activity and performance of the Access team, and any issues that need attention
To identify aspects of the service, which could be improved and initiate and implement service development projects.
To take the lead in agreed areas of development and service delivery