Job summary
- Main area
- Early Intervention Serv - Lamb - LEOCAT
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7130430-LF
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lambeth Early Onset Community Mental Health Team
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
Job overview
Lambeth Early Onset (LEO) is a borough wide community service working in Lambeth with people experiencing first episode psychosis. The team is part of the research based Early Intervention Model and works intensively with service users and carers for up to three years, promoting social inclusion and recovery. The team consists of professionals skilled in supporting people experiencing psychosis and includes care coordinators (occupational therapists, nurses and social workers), psychiatrists, psychologists, vocational and employment specialists, and an admin team.
We are passionate about supporting people with psychosis and use a holistic approach and psycho-social interventions to do so. We are looking for candidates that share this passion and that are committed to improving the lives of those experiencing mental health difficulties.
LEO is currently under-represented in terms of staff from Black and Ethnic Minority backgrounds and we would strongly encourage people from these backgrounds to apply. Successful applicants will be selected on merit; however, we are committed to using Positive Action to increase the diversity of our workforce.
The Trust encourages and welcomes applications from people with lived experience of mental health challenges. We see this as valuable experience and recognise the necessity of including people with lived experience in our service.
Main duties of the job
We are the Lambeth Early Onset (LEO) Team and we are seeking a skilled and experienced clinician to undertake our Advanced Practitioner role. This is a permanent position open to qualified and registered: nurses, occupational therapists and social workers.
The role of Advanced Practitioner includes both the supervision of around 4-6 care coordinators in LEO, and also care coordinating a caseload of around 10-15 service users. This a unique and highly sought-after position as it gives clinicians the opportunity to undertake management and supervision responsibilities, whilst also still undertaking frontline work with clients
The successful candidate will be joining a cohesive and supportive team that enjoy working with each other, and we are looking forward to welcoming more enthusiastic and passionate colleagues.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are an innovative service and use creative approaches to try and meet the needs of the diverse community that we serve. This includes using the Tree of Life Approach, recovery stories, and the Open Dialogue approach.
This role includes the following:
- Providing clinical supervision to staff
- Managing a complex caseload of clients
- Supporting the Team Leader in the oversight of the referral pathway in and out of the service
- Supporting the Team Leader in recruitment
- Deputising in the Team Leader’s absence
- Acting as a clinical lead for the service
- Completing assessments for newly referred adults who may be undergoing their first psychotic episode
- Undertaking risk assessments regularly
- To assertively outreach difficult to engage service users
- To involve families and carers in treatment plans where appropriate
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification with affiliated professional registration – RMN with NMC registration or Occupational Therapist or Social Worker with HCPC registration (A)
- Evidence of continuing professional development e.g. relevant training (A)
- Significant post registration experience in a mental health setting (A)
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in relevant psycho-social intervention
- Leadership and management or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking a leadership role (A)
- Experience of working with people experiencing psychosis (A/I)
- Experience of working in an Early Intervention or At Risk Mental State service (A/I)
- Experience of care coordination / case management (A/I)
- Experience of providing supervision in a clinical setting (A/I)
- Experience of using psycho-social interventions (A/I)
- Experience of working in a community setting (A)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking a service improvement/evaluation project (A/I)
- Experience of recruitment and selection of staff (A)
- Experience of using psycho-social interventions
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of CPA, Community Care Act, Carers Act, Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation as application to practice
- Specialist knowledge of the Early Intervention Model evidence base
- Knowledge of race and gender issues as they pertain to people with serious mental health problems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse complex issues/problems, provide guidance and make decisions
- Competent in providing clinical supervision
- Skills in mental health and risk assessments
- Skills in crisis management
- Ability to provide care that is sensitive to the needs of minority groups
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of carrying out CBT
- Experience of Group facilitation
- Experience of Change management
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
- Imogen Hooper
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 228 7200
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