About this role
Job summary
The Team Lead will ensure that assessment, care planning and rehabilitation interventions are coordinated, person-centred, trauma-informed and recovery-focused. They will work with service users, carers, inpatient rehabilitation services, community mental health teams, social care, housing and supported accommodation providers to promote independence, social inclusion and safe transitions of care.
The postholder will provide operational and clinical leadership, manage and supervise designated staff, oversee referrals and caseload allocation, and ensure timely assessment and management of clinical and safeguarding risks. They will support professional development, quality assurance, effective documentation and delivery against agreed performance standards.
The role will contribute to rehabilitation pathway development and service improvement while maintaining a clear focus on ICRT's established community rehabilitation function, safe staffing, multidisciplinary decision-making and clinically appropriate patient flow.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for: Day-to-day clinical and operational leadership of ICRT; line management and supervision of designated staff; referral, allocation, caseload and clinical risk oversight
About us
North London Foundation Trustis committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy:
- 1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- 2. With our partners in North London and each b
orough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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
1. Clinical and Operational Leadership
- Manage the day-to-day functioning of the service, including clinical priorities, referrals, caseload allocation, workforce capacity and operational performance.
- Provide professional guidance and clinical oversight to multidisciplinary staff managing complex rehabilitation cases.
- Ensure effective multidisciplinary assessments, clinical formulation, care planning, risk assessment and review processes.
- Support staff in making clinically appropriate decisions, escalating concerns and managing competing priorities.
- Chair and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, complex case reviews, safeguarding discussions and rehabilitation pathway meetings.
- Promote a positive team culture based on professional accountability, compassionate leadership, reflective practice and continuous learning.
2. Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Lead the delivery of specialist rehabilitation interventions for service users with severe and enduring mental illness and complex functional and psychosocial needs.
- Promote practice that supports independence, self-management, meaningful occupation, community participation and improved quality of life.
- Ensure that rehabilitation interventions are informed by clinical assessment, multidisciplinary formulation, evidence-based practice and individual recovery goals.
- Support positive risk-taking where clinically appropriate, balancing autonomy, independence and safety.
- Promote service user involvement, shared decision-making, equality, diversity and social inclusion.
3. Referrals, Caseload Management and Patient Flow
- Oversee referral screening, assessment, prioritisation and allocation in accordance with agreed eligibility criteria and clinical need.
- Ensure caseloads are managed effectively, taking account of complexity, clinical risk, workforce capacity and staff competencies.
- Monitor waiting lists, unallocated cases and service capacity, escalating risks and delays appropriately.
- Work collaboratively with inpatient rehabilitation services, community teams and partner agencies to support timely and clinically appropriate care transitions.
- Identify barriers to discharge, rehabilitation progress and community placement, and coordinate multidisciplinary action to address them.
- Contribute to complex discharge planning, including supported accommodation, housing, social care and statutory aftercare arrangements.
- Ensure that decisions concerning rehabilitation provision and discharge are based on individual clinical and psychosocial needs.
4. Clinical Governance, Risk and Safeguarding
- Ensure robust clinical governance arrangements are maintained across the team.
- Oversee the quality and timeliness of clinical risk assessments, crisis plans, care plans and statutory documentation.
- Provide leadership in managing complex clinical presentations, safeguarding concerns and risks to service users, carers, staff and the public.
- Ensure the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding legislation and relevant professional guidance are applied appropriately.
- Support staff in identifying, assessing and managing risks associated with mental health deterioration, self-neglect, exploitation, substance misuse and vulnerability.
- Ensure incidents, complaints and safeguarding concerns are reported, investigated and escalated .
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Degree or master's qualification in Mental Health.
- A registered qualification in Mental Health such as Mental Health Nursing or Psychosocial, AHP or Social Care.
Desirable
- Relevant qualification in Psychosocial Interventions with people with severe and enduring mental health problems
Experience
Essential
- Experience in therapeutic engagement to patients in groups.
- Wide knowledge/ appreciation of a range of models of practice in social and health care.
- Knowledge of interventions and strategies which embrace social and health care needs.
- Minimum of 2 years' experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision
Desirable
- Relevant experience in Rehabilitation models of care.
Skills
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to prioritise work and complete within deadlines.
- Ability to practice in a variety of clinical and community settings and effectively work using group delivery methods.
- Team building.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to deliver appropriate clinical and managerial supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible approach to work.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Personable and amiable
- Clear and fluent communication within a multidisciplinary team
- Approachable
- Able to lead a team
Other
Essential
- Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the post
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
Lowther Road
1 Lowther Road
London
N7 8US
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)