Clinical Service Lead - Southwark Home Treatment Team

An opportunity has arisen for Clinical Service Lead for Southwark Home Treatment Team. Based at The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill.
The role involves managing the Borough's Home Treatment Service working closely with the Right care Team, Acute Referral Centre, Liaison and Community Teams to ensure early intervention in crisis and reduction in the reliance on bed based services for people in mental health crisis.
The Home Treatment Teams provide 7 day a week, crisis assessment and intensive home treatment to patients with the aim of preventing admission where possible or if admission is required facilitating earlier discharge. The Service Manager post is Monday to Friday 9-5 with some flexibility required. You will also be required to participate in the Trust wide on-call system.
The post holder will provide leadership within the borough for ensuring smooth interface working between services to ensure timely admission and discharge from hospital.
The post holder will provide line management and clinical & operational leadership to the team, working closely with the Consultant and Advanced Practitioners within the team to maximise effectiveness and efficiency of service provision. The aim is to ensure integrated clinical, operational, quality and financial outcomes are achieved within the service line.
Please see attached JD for further information., To provide demonstrable assurance that the resources available achieve efficiencies, reduction of waste and improvements in clinical quality.
To measure outcomes to demonstrate achievements against care pathway standards.
To promote the engagement of carers and families in the care pathway.
Responsible for ensuring high levels of operational effectiveness, including throughput, resource utilisation and the attainment of performance targets within service lines.
To work in partnership with housing providers, faith organisations day centre staff, outreach teams and other agencies providing support to the client group
For further details , please see attached JD., To ensure the delivery of service within the resources available whilst maintaining the quality of service provision
To identify commercial opportunities within the clinical service and seek to achieve income Leadership
To support the development of a culture that promotes leadership through coaching
To line manage and performance manage team leaders/managers in accordance with Trust standards and protocols
To assist in recruiting, motivating, training, developing and retaining appropriate staff enabling them to have the skills, expertise and discretion to function effectively in their roles
Provide demonstrable assurance that staff have the appropriate skills and competence to deliver high quality care
To demonstrate clinical competence and role model effective clinical care delivery
To recruit/develop team leaders/managers who meet the organisational standards and measure performance against leadership and management competencies adopted by the Trust
To be a visible leader and be accessible to clinical staff, services users and carers.
To deputise for the General Manager as required.
For further details, please see attached JD.
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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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.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
+ Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
+ Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
+ Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
+ Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
+ Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
+ NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
+ Counselling services
+ Wellbeing events
+ Long service awards
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Season ticket loan
+ Childcare vouchers
+ Staff restaurants