Job summary
The Team Leader role at Hawthorn Recovery Unit plays a key role in Older Adults Mental Health Service at the North London Foundation Trust.
A key aspect of the service is to provide timely and intensive interventions, allowing individuals to receive the treatment and support they need whilst remaining in their own home.
The post becomes available from April 2026 due to the current Team Leader retiring
This role will suit you ifyou are:
a confident clinician and leader
committed to providing high quality care
able to work at pace, problem solving and decision making clinically and at a team level
ready to take on an established and well respected service to lead and manage the next period of change as the service expands
We encourage you to get in contact and arrange an informal visit
Main duties of the job
Provides clinical and managerial leadership for the service.
Ensures the service is safe, effective and responsive to clinical need.
Promotes a positive team culture to strive for excellence in service delivery.
Responsible for recruitment ensuring that the team has safe staffing levels and that staff have the range of skills required to carry out their individual roles.
Manages timely patient flow through the service from referral to discharge, working closely with the Consultant Psychiatrists and keyworkers.
Uses a wide range of online systems for clinical, staff and resource management
Provides supervision, appraisal and training to support staff development
Manages a small clinical caseload carrying out assessments, treatment interventions and working with carers and family members
About us
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Clinical and Managerial Leadership
Staff management
Service Development
Recruitment
Quality Improvement
Resource management
Clinical interventions
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
Clinical and Managerial Leadership
Staff management
Service Development
Recruitment
Quality Improvement
Resource management
Clinical interventions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oA professional clinical qualification is required oDip BSc Occupational Therapy or oDip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing, or other AHP
- oCurrently Registered with appropriate professional body
Desirable
- Further training - Leadership, supervision or mentoring, training
- Post graduate training relevant to older people and / or mental health
Experience
Essential
- Experienced Clinician - Post registration experience up to at least Band 6 level Mental Health nurse/OT / AHP preferably in a mental health setting working with older adults with functional mental health needs
- Experienced in complex clinical risk assessment
- Experience of leadership
- Experience of Quality Improvement
Desirable
- Experienced using Rio patient electronic records and caseload management
- Experience of change management
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of leadership and quality improvement
- Specialist knowledge relating to mental health care delivery including Dialog plus, Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding
Desirable
- understanding of medication management including controlled drugs and FP10's
Skills
Essential
- Comprehensive leadership skills
- Ability to work at pace, prioritise workload and manage time effectively
- Ability to plan and problem solve clinically and at a team level
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessment and implement risk management plans.
- Ability to supervise and appraise staff
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective IT skills to use a range of electronic systems
Desirable
- Specialist clinical skills developed through professional training eg health coaching, CBT, motivational interviewing
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Personal Resilience to manage varied and busy workload and complex clinical needs
- Highly committed to teamwork
- Confidence as a clinician and leader
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oA professional clinical qualification is required oDip BSc Occupational Therapy or oDip/BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Nursing, or other AHP
- oCurrently Registered with appropriate professional body
Desirable
- Further training - Leadership, supervision or mentoring, training
- Post graduate training relevant to older people and / or mental health
Experience
Essential
- Experienced Clinician - Post registration experience up to at least Band 6 level Mental Health nurse/OT / AHP preferably in a mental health setting working with older adults with functional mental health needs
- Experienced in complex clinical risk assessment
- Experience of leadership
- Experience of Quality Improvement
Desirable
- Experienced using Rio patient electronic records and caseload management
- Experience of change management
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of leadership and quality improvement
- Specialist knowledge relating to mental health care delivery including Dialog plus, Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding
Desirable
- understanding of medication management including controlled drugs and FP10's
Skills
Essential
- Comprehensive leadership skills
- Ability to work at pace, prioritise workload and manage time effectively
- Ability to plan and problem solve clinically and at a team level
- Ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessment and implement risk management plans.
- Ability to supervise and appraise staff
- Excellent communication skills
- Effective IT skills to use a range of electronic systems
Desirable
- Specialist clinical skills developed through professional training eg health coaching, CBT, motivational interviewing
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Personal Resilience to manage varied and busy workload and complex clinical needs
- Highly committed to teamwork
- Confidence as a clinician and leader
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
