Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 294-COMM-7217881-JB
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £70,387 - £80,465 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Clinical Manager (Wandsworth)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
A unique opportunity has arisen for Clinical Manager in Wandsworth Community Services. The Clinical Manager is one of the Borough Leadership quartet and as such, works closely with the Clinical Service lead, Borough Associate Clinical Director and lead for Psychology and Psychotherapy, to ensure delivery of high quality, safe and effective services that provide positive experience outcomes for service users, carers and staff.
The post holder will be a registered clinician, the post holder will take a lead role in partnering borough stakeholders within the wider health and social care environment.
Interviews are expected to take place on 19 or 20 June, 2025 tbc
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will ideally have experience of working within the community mental health setting with strong people skills and change management experience.
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· The post holder is expected to clinically and operationally lead and manage the delivery of high-quality services in a defined area, within available resources and in line with the Trusts governance framework.
· To ensure the quality of clinical care within their defined areas
· At all times to role model effectiveness working with colleagues, holding self and colleagues to account appropriately and demonstrating personal commitment to the delivery of high-quality services.
· To be accessible to lead and promote quality and to empower and enable staff/teams to develop and maintain their skills and competencies in order to retain a sustainable workforce.
· To promote evidence-based practice, including Identify risks and take corrective action in line with the trusts integrated governance framework, including responding to Serious Incidents (SIs), Incidents, complaints and communications, ensuring timely and thorough Page 2 of 9 investigation, disseminating recommendation, and monitoring that actions are fully implemented.
· To take a key role, by actively contributing, in the planning and delivery of the business objectives, service plans and change projects, ensuring customer focus, consistency, quality, and cost effectiveness.
· Contribute to external groups and specific projects and work streams as required within the local health and social care community.
· The post holder will take part in the on-call rota.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Clinical – must hold a valid Registration with a professional body.
- Educated to Masters Degree(MSc)level qualification or professional/clinical equivalent
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Recent management related training or senior managerial professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of employment legislation
- Significant management and or leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- In depth current post registration clinical experience within a wide range of clinical specialities
- Proven ability to competently directly manage a Ward/Team
- Extensive knowledge and expertise across a number of areas e.g. clinical, infection control, nutrition, safeguarding
- Experience of concurrently managing a wide variety of projects
- Significant professional leadership, especially professional development, clinical governance and supervision and appraisal
- Track record of involving and motivating staff to improve performance
- Senior management experience in a health or social care setting including high level negotiation and partnership forming
- Experience of managing multidisciplinary teams in a health environment
- Leading projects to successful outcomes
- Experience of successfully identifying, planning, implementing and evaluating a range of services according to the needs of the people it serves
- Experience of service development/service review and leading on successful implementation of change
- Experience of successfully managing integration and modernising services
- Experience of effective financial management
- Evidence of producing business cases and RCA reports
Desirable criteria
- Significant management and or leadership training
- Experience of research, publication and presentation
- Experience of quality improvement projects
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of best practice in inpatient and community care settings and the benefits and challenges of joint working between social services and health
- Knowledge of national policies and recent changes within the health and social care economy
- Knowledge of relevant legislation
- Strong leadership skills including true ability to influence, negotiate, provide clarity and take difficult decisions
- Computer literate
- Ability to demonstrate budget management skills including financial planning and management of CIPs
- Ability to manage time and working successfully in a high-pressure environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective report writing and presentation skills
- Evidence of managing high-risk situations effectively
- To have the ability to deliver complex and difficult messages in a manner that is clear and delivered in line with the Trst Values
- Knowledge of Human Resources and Workforce policy and procedure that supports the development and the performance of their team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of effective redesign and improvement methodologies
- Knowledge of workforce developments in clinical settings /operational services
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
- Lou Hellard
- Job title
- Head of Service Delivery
- Email address
- [email protected]
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