Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for 1 permanent full time Band 7 Clinical Lead position to work within the Redbridge Home Treatment Team (RHTT) to support the continued development of the service. The successful candidate will fill in the role of RHTT Clinical Lead based in Tantallon House.
This role gives the successful applicant the opportunity to act as the lead clinician in a dynamic home treatment team and offer guidance, supervision and leadership to colleagues.
The role entails supporting our clients who are experiencing severe mental health difficulties towards recovery, by maintaining an empathetic and compassionate approach that is based on evidence based interventions and support.
You will need to have a minimum of three years post-qualification clinical experience in mental health, where a degree of autonomous working is required. They should be able to demonstrate the ability to work on their own initiative, have good time management skills and be able to prioritize workload effectively.
You will need to demonstrate well developed leadership and interpersonal skills especially when handling conflict and crisis, and should have the appropriate skills to demonstrate a good risk management.
Main duties of the job
1. Champion transformation and transition between all services, with the service user, family and network, ensuring service users and carers are fully engaged in the development and delivery of mental health services.
2. Support staff on specific areas including Safeguarding concerns, adult social care reviews, allocation of work, health and safety etc.
3. Lead by providing a range of interventions and assessments for service users, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration their physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify their abilities and areas of difficulty.
4. Ensure that risk assessment/management procedures are implemented including Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adult Procedures.
5. Ensure that the team meet their KPIs such as Dialog, News, Care Plans, Risk Assessments, Supervisions, Appraisals and caseload numbers are managed through zoning meetings and time transfers of care.
6. Taking the lead in the MDT and Clinical Review Meetings and following up on action plans.
7. Be responsible for organising and prioritising own caseload in the day to day allocation of work, whilst being able to work flexibly to meet the needs of their service users, relatives, carers and the service.
8. Deputise when required in the absence of the Team/Service Lead and delegate appropriately to more junior team member
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have coproduced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 per annum (pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
9. Provide a range of intervention and assessment of patients, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration assessment of the patient’s physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify the patient’s abilities and areas of difficulty.
10. To deputise when required in the absence of the Team Manager and delegate appropriately to more junior members of staff, support workers.
11. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
12. Provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various intervention methods where appropriate.
13. To participate and take a lead role in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
14. To facilitate the development of a positive and ‘supportive’ team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
15. Have specialist knowledge in the field of adults mental health in order to carry out assessments and interventions which are underpinned by relevant theoretical approaches whilst ensuring regular evaluation of the care plan.
16. To oversee decisions made by the team in the day to day running of the service and escalate any complex / high risk issues to the team manager.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
17. Degree Level Qualification in Nursing, Social Work and Occupational Services
Desirable criteria
18. Leadership Course, QI involvement or training project lead, Non medical prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria
19. Minimum 3 years experience as B6 in a mental health crisis team, or MHWT, B7 experience on inpatients
20. Extensive experience undertaking complex mental state assessments, risk assessments with service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
21. Experience of providing managerial and clinical supervision to junior staff
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
22. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
23. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
24. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
25. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.