Job overview

To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination  between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
Head of Service
Service Manager
Pathway Lead
Multidisciplinary Team
Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.
• To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap 
around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.
• To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.
• To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.
• To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.
• To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
• To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
• To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes.

Main duties of the job

• To support the team during the transformation and implementation process, to ensure that services offer access for both service users and to physical health care assessment, specialist physical health support and relevant non statutory organisations. 
• To establish effective safety planning processes and ensure that delegated local health and fire safety responsibilities are met as required by statute, regulation, legal obligation, and trust policies.
• Work with the Service Manager to ensure that staff are compliant with 
systems and processes to protect young children and vulnerable adults. 
Undertaking safeguarding processes in accordance with policy.
• To identify training needs in conjunction with the local workforce plan 
• To review referrals to the team on a regular basis, ensuring that allocation of new cases occurs in line with team policy. Recognising service users as individuals will foster collaborative working with other agencies in joint working; agreeing the best approach to meeting individuals’ mental health, physical health, and recovery, social, spiritual, and recreational care needs. 
Ensuring that care provided respects equality and diversity that is supportive of service users and their carers. 
• To respond to complaints or other concerns as they arise and in accordance with trust policy, and in conjunction with the Services Manager.

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:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough 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.
4.  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.