Job summary
- Main area
- Management
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0318
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St. Ann's Hospital
- Town
- Haringey
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Haringey East Core Community Team Manager
Band 8A
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an existing band 8a or aspiring band 7 to gain experience of leading a busy Mental Health Community Team and locally support the Transformation to further develop the Integrated Core Community Team with new roles, including new Voluntary Care Sector provision.
You will jointly be providing overall leadership for the Service to ensure it delivers high quality client care that is integrated with other local Haringey services and will be jointly responsible for managing staff and non-staff budgets for identified areas of responsibility.
Main duties of the job
You will be the ideal person for this role if you are:
- Keen to support the transformation of Community mental health services.
- Able to bring your management experience to facilitate a high standard of responsive care within a multidisciplinary team for people experiencing a complex mental health problems.
- Passionate about providing and improving the pathways and journeys for our patients and service users at the right time and place to meet their needs.
- A registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, clinical psychologist or Social Worker working at band 7 or band 8a.
- Experienced in understanding the changing NHS environment and its implications for service improvement.
- Able to provide effective oversight of a busy community team
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of both the Mental Health Act (1983) and Care Act 2014.
- Flexible with looking beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries and organisations to implement the new models of care aligned with this project.
- Enthusiastic with leadership skills that can influence, motivate and involve individuals and teams.
- Able to nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally.
Working for our organisation
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration (Social Worker, Registered Nurse, Registered OT, Clinical Psychologist)
- First Degree
Desirable criteria
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 5 years post- qualification experience in mental health using a range of leadership and management skills in a management role within a multidisciplinary team.
- Handling complaints Investigation
- Experience of reviewing incidents
- Experience of overseeing capability and disciplinary processes.
- Effective budget management for both staff and non-staff.
Desirable criteria
- Consultation & negotiation with commissioning authorities
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 Care Act 2014
- Risk management experience
- Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
- High level of analytical clarity
- Written and verbal skills for face-to-face work with clients, letter and report writing and multi- disciplinary negotiations and discussions
- Ability to make and maintain autonomous professional decisions
- Knowledge of audit tools and protocols
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Should include team working, interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive “can do” attitude and a positive attitude to change
- Ability to build and lead effectively a large multidisciplinary skilled, multi- faceted team
- Ability to enthuse others, co-ordinate and motivate a team
- Ability to manage conflict effectively
- Experience of recruitment and selection of staff
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Uzosike
- Job title
- Haringey Community Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07827667053
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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