Clinical Team Lead - Mental Health & Wellness Team North
This role gives the successful applicant the opportunity to act as the lead clinician in a dynamic mental health team and offer guidance, supervision and leadership to colleagues, including our team of care coordinators.
The role entails supporting our clients who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties towards recovery, by maintaining an empathetic and compassionate approach that is based on evidence based interventions and support.
Champion transformation and transition between all services, with the service user, family and network, ensuring service users and carers are fully engaged in the development and delivery of mental health services.
Support the transformation of pathways to support the best pathway of care for all service users.
Support staff on specific areas including Safeguarding concerns, adult social care reviews, allocation of work, health and safety etc.
Lead by providing a range of interventions and assessments for service users, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration their physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify their abilities and areas of difficulty.
Ensure that risk assessment/management procedures are implemented including Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Procedures. This includes being able to act as Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) in Safeguarding cases and having the ability to make appropriate decisions.
Provide specialist clinical advice on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods.
Supervising staff through caseload managing.
Be responsible for organising and prioritising own caseload in the day to day allocation of work, whilst being able to work flexibly to meet the needs of their service users, relatives, carers and the service.
Deputise when required in the absence of the Team/Service Lead and delegate appropriately to more junior team member
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham Essex
Higher Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London – 15% of basic salary, with a minimum of £4,551 and maximum of £5,735, pro rata for part time staff
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Come and be part of one of our integrated mental health & wellness teams in Waltham Forest. These new teams merge assessment and early intervention and recovery teams, removing the need for a two-tier service and no more hand off of patients from one service to another. We have had new investment in mental health worker posts, peer support workers posts and support time recovery workers to support the integrated team to work as one around the patient, their families and their social networks. Our vision is for this new investment to help start a new era in our mental healthcare provision at NELFT, making us among the most holistic, relational and person-centred services in the country.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.