Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0298
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Building, Chase Farm
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,631 - £68,623 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
MHCAS Manager(North)
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
The North London NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit motivated and experienced MCHAS Service Manager who are keen to make positive changes within nursing inpatient settings.
The post holders will be accountable for the allocation, deployment, prioritisation and delivery of nursing strategy and for implementing and reviewing systems, policies, standards and procedures that ensure the provision of high-quality services with frameworks agreed by the Trust. The post holder has overall responsibility for the management and development of integrated North MCHAS Service.
1 Please submit your detailed application highlighting your nursing leadership skills, and experience as relevant to the role and person specification.
Main duties of the job
The post holder, leading a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional Mental Health Care service, is responsible for ensuring that the team operates to the requirements of the service operational policy/strategy and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will have a leadership in developing pathways of care and collaborative working to meet the mental health needs of service users.
In carrying out this role the post holder, working with Team Managers, will make best use of the resources available to them in the monitoring of service and individual performance; ensuring that at all times best use is made of health and social care resources. Working closely with the Head of Service they will have responsibility for ensuring the delivery of high standards of quality care within the service.
Working for our organisation
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
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?
Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff, and visitors.
- 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 allowance and NHS pension scheme
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will effectively lead on governance and audit within the service, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.
As an experienced manager the post holder will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and professional development, overseeing the development of clinical practice to ensure that delivery of care is regularly reviewed and that service improvements are implemented when necessary.
This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The job holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Head of Service, which are appropriate to the grade.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with extensive experience of Management and knowledge of Inpatient services
Education and Experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level or Equivalent
- Sound practical experience of the provision of mental health services
- Experience of managing a team and working directly with Human Recourses
- Experience of using Quality Improvement methodology to implement positive change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of writing reports and undertaking investigations
- Leadership Qualification
- Evidence of managing change to support staff well being
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial management experience in a senior capacity managing the provision of care for people with mental health or substance misuse issues in an in-patient or community care setting.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Runa Bhoobun
- Job title
- Senior Service Lead Adult Acute Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07792768718
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