About this role
Job summary
A Band 7 Team Leader position is available within the Haringey Memory Service at St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham. This role is suited to an experienced and enthusiastic mental health practitioner with a strong interest in older people's mental health and dementia care. The post offers the chance to contribute to the development of the newly implemented Dementia Diagnosis to End of Life pathway.
The successful candidate will provide expert clinical and managerial leadership to a skilled multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care for older adults requiring memory assessments and support. Responsibilities include leading service improvement initiatives, meeting local and national performance targets, and conducting assessments and follow-up reviews for patients with complex needs.
Experience in older adult care, multidisciplinary working, and applying organisational protocols is essential. Strong communication skills, confidence in presenting, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively with internal and external partners are required. The role also involves contributing to system updates and implementing new processes aligned with Trust priorities.
This Band 7 position offers significant opportunities for professional development, including staff management, project involvement, and supporting team performance and growth
Main duties of the job
Provide professional, clinical, managerial, and supervisory leadership to the Haringey Memory Service team Be responsible for screening referrals to the service for assessment and diagnosis and assume responsibility for the coordination of referrals to team members and their workload management. Chair Haringey Memory Service referral meetings, business meetings and service development forums Ensure the Haringey Memory Service is adequately and safely staffed within the agreed establishment Develop and implement effective supervision and appraisal systems for all staff ensuring the implementation of the Knowledge & Skills Framework Ensure effective communication is established within the team and external departments, e.g., regular staff meetings, attendance at Head of Department meetings. OMG and appropriate Service Line meetings. Participate in the development of pathways within the Directorate to ensure joint working across services in the delivery of care to patients.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme Excellent internal staff network The post holder will be aligned with our values:
We Are Kind We Are Respectful We Work Together We Keep Things Simple We Empower We Are Proudly Diverse In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description Job responsibilities
Assess service users referred with memory problems using the agreed assessment protocol and tools.
All interventions (assessment and post diagnosis) to consider any specific physical, cultural, psychological, spiritual and age-related needs.
Work collaboratively with other service providers health, social/community and voluntary, including using social care procedures to directly request community services when appropriate.
Contribute to the delivery of non-pharmacological post diagnostic interventions.
Maintain own personal and professional status by ensuring the requirements laid down by the relevant professional body (HCPC/NMC) e.g., registration and continuity of professional development.
Have an informed knowledge and understanding of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, and its application to the care and treatment of people with dementia and cognitive impairment, and therefore be able to offer appropriate advice to service users and their carers.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Professional qualification; occupational therapy, RMN (3 years post qualification) Must be currently registered with appropriate professional body Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable
Management and Leadership training Further study in the field of Dementia care Additional qualification in physical health care and psychopharmacology and medication management
Experience Essential
Minimum of Three years post registration experience including mental health and older people Minimum of two years' experience working with people with dementia and their carers at Band 6 level Experience of supervising/appraisal of junior staff/learners
Desirable
Working experience in a community mental health setting Experience of managing a team/service Budget and resource management
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing Ability to use and provide effective supervision in accordance with Trust policy Understanding and application of the use of IT systems in Health care organizations
Desirable
Knowledge of the role of Memory Services in supporting people with dementia and their carers Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of evidence-based assessments and care planning for service users of a Memory Service Able to deal with difficult situations e.g. dealing with challenging behaviour and/or emotional patients or carers
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address St Ann's Hospital
St Ann's Road
London
N15 3TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)