Clinical Team Leader

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic Team Leader who can bring energy into the team. You will have excellent assessment and care planning skills to enable you support both the Nurses and Doctors in carrying out their role.

As the successful candidate you will have the ability to promote social inclusion and recovery principles in the team's work with service users and carers.

You will thrive in working with people from diverse backgrounds and be able to promote equality of access to service and outcomes.

You will be required to provide datasets, engage in closing and investigating complaints and serious untoward incidents.

You will be part of evaluating service by reviewing, auditing and providing breach reports.

To ensure the national targets for response times is met accordingly

To be responsible for the day to day clinical leadership, management, operation and performance of

the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT), ensuring the service provided is in accordance with the

Lambeth Alliance philosophy and objectives, and the Mental Health Strategy of Guys and St Thomas’

NHS Foundation Trust.

To be responsible for ensuring that the MHLT functions as an integral part of the borough services

and for the establishment and maintenance of effective communication with all relevant personnel

and agencies, both internally within the Trust, externally with a range of agencies and in particular

with St Thomas’ Hospital

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.

We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.

The core philosophy of the Core24 Mental Health Liaison team is:

“We take a professional, honest, caring and open-minded approach. We encourage and support choice. We are prompt and will take time to listen, work collaboratively with you and stick to our word. We respect differences”

This is in line with the trust’s core values:

I will be caring, kind and polite.

I will be prompt and value your time.

I will take time to listen to you

I will be honest and direct with you.

I will do what I say I am going to do.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nyasha Kajawu Job title: Clinical Service Lead Email address: nkajawu1@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07775255898