Primary Care Mental Health Team Leader Neighbourhood 3

Maudsley Learning; Bromley; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as the Primary Care Mental Health Team Leader with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. This role involves leading a dedicated team in delivering vital mental health services and ensuring high-quality care for adults in the Bromley area, with opportunities for professional growth and development.

Qualifications

• Hold a professional qualification.
• Experience in primary care and community mental health settings.
• Knowledge of legislative guidelines regarding mental health.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the integrated neighbourhood Primary Care Mental Health Team.
• Supervise a multidisciplinary team and manage referrals.
• Ensure a high-quality, safe, and effective service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Coordination

Clinical Governance

Risk Management

Education

Professional Qualification

Membership of a Professional Body

Mentorship or equivalent

Job description

Primary Care Mental Health Team Leader Neighbourhood 3

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 334-NUR-7018784-LF-A

Site Churchdown MH Centre Town Downham, Bromley Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 16/06/2025 23:59

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join us as the Team Leader for Primary Care Mental Health Team (PCMHT) Neighbourhood 3 . We are looking for an experienced mental health practitioner; nurse, social worker or occupational therapist.

The team is made of a diverse MDT, we offer teaching sessions, space for reflective practice and an opportunity to be a champion in your chosen areas.

You will be leading the Primary Care Mental Health Team to deliver timely assessments, care planning and evidenced based health and psychosocial care interventions to the adult population in Lewisham with mental health needs. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to oversee the interface directly with partner agencies including Primary Care, Secondary Care and MIND to ensure effective service delivery and discharge planning.

The PCMHT’s are now working directly with Primary Care and sharing the same electronic record system and the successful candidate will receive training. The team works with our newly developed Care Process Model to ensure our patients and carers receive standardised care.

Main duties of the job

• To lead and co-ordinate the work of an integrated neighbourhood Primary Care Mental Health Team ensuring the provision of safe, effective, high-quality community services in line with statutory requirements and local policies.
• You will directly supervise a muti-disciplinary, multi-agency team of health, social care and voluntary sector professionals operating from a community-based site.
• You will ensure the efficient triage, assessment and allocation of referrals.
• You will maintain an overview of the safe and effective work of the team ensuring the continuous flow of service-users through the system.
• You will ensure and enhance liaison with GP practices to maximise on new and growing links and collaborative working.
• You will oversee safe working practices and effective agile working directives for the team as a whole.

Working for our organisation

The PCMHT service offers a wide range of medical, psychosocial and psychological evidence-based interventions in line with NICE guidelines . PCMHT also offers culturally sensitive approaches appropriate for the diverse population which it serves .

The teams are the single point of access for most sources of referrals which they review, triage and assess as indicated . There is also a large advice and consultation function to colleagues in primary care, this includes advice and signposting .

Following assessment some patients will follow the clinical pathway requiring s hort term support focused on engagement and stabilization (EAS).

As part of the stepped care approach, the service also offers short term psychologically informed interventions and may provide a gateway to more specialist longer-term psychological therapies where indicated .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· 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.

· Lead the team in setting, implementing and monitoring realistic and achievable objectives in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service.

Person specification

Education and Qualification

• Hold a professional qualification
• Membership of a Professional Body
• Evidence of recent continued professional development.
• Mentorship or equivalent.
• A commitment to completing quality improvement training.

Experience

• Experience of research based/reflective practice e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence-based practice.
• Experience of providing a range of clinical interventions, including triage and assessment, to people in the designated care group with a variety of health problems.
• Experience of working consultatively with professionals.
• Experience of working in an MDT setting.
• Experience of working with and addressing issues of diversity including experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Experience of risk management and safeguarding
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of developing and facilitating teaching programme for staff.
• Experience of working in a community mental health setting.
• Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in adult mental health.

Knowledge

• An understanding of the relationship between primary and secondary care services.
• Awareness of racial and diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
• Knowledge of key legislation and guidelines in relation to statutory mental health responsibilities, including Safeguarding Adults, Young people and children.
• An understanding of the stepped care model of delivery of psychological therapies for depression, anxiety and personality disorder.
• Ability to provide quality care that is responsive to service user needs, without close supervision.
• Theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatment.
• Knowledge of the theory of psychological models, such as CBT, DBT, or MBT.

Skills and Abilities

• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills including communicating complex, highly technical and sensitive information to clients, their families and colleagues.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate and to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive and/or challenging behaviour.
• Good organisational skills.
• Skills in emotional resilience: able to cope in difficult interpersonal situations.
• Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
• Accredited practitioner skills in at least one model of psychological therapy.
• Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes and improvements to services.
• Specialised clinical skills, e.g. group work, anxiety/anger management, family work skills

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe’

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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.