Team Leader

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Croydon; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 7 Clinical Team Leader in the Croydon Neighbourhood Centre transformation. This role provides senior clinical and operational leadership within a community mental health setting, ensuring safe, person-centred care and effective patient flow.

As transformation completes by 2026, successful candidates will be reallocated to Neighbourhood Centre teams.

Qualifications

• Senior clinical and operational leadership within Neighbourhood Centre.
• Expert clinical oversight, risk management and escalation pathways.
• Service development, quality improvement, and governance.
• Staff development and inclusive team culture.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensure safe, effective patient care and smooth patient flow.
• Oversee risk management and escalation processes.
• Drive quality improvement, audits and governance.

Job description

Candidates to please note Croydon is currently undergoing transformation into Neighbourhood Centres. This role is currently advertised for the Croydon Assessment and Liaison Team (A&L), however the three successful candidates will be reallocated to a Neighbourhood Centre teams before the end of 2026.

• On transformation into Neighbourhood Centres the successful candidates will transition into Team Leader roles.

Team Leader

Band 7 Clinical Team Leader provides senior clinical and operational leadership within the Neighbourhood Centre. The role ensures the delivery of safe, effective, person‑centred mental health care in a community mental health environment.

The post‑holder offers visible, accessible leadership, supporting the multidisciplinary team with expert clinical oversight, risk management, and high‑quality assessment processes. They are responsible for ensuring smooth patient flow, timely decision‑making, and robust escalation pathways.

A key part of the role involves service development, quality improvement, audit leadership, and governance, alongside supporting staff development, competency growth, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture aligned with Trust values.

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.