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Location

Barking, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

There has never been a more exciting time to join our team of designing and delivering Adult Mental Health services in Barking & Dagenham! We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly skilled Allied Health Professional, Nursing or Social care Professional to join us as Head of Adults Mental Health Service in B&D. The service benefits from two Heads of Service whose roles complement each other to cover a portfolio of adults mental health service. It is envisaged that one role will focus on Place based services and the other on more Borough wide services.

This is an exciting time to join our team to ensure holistic and patient focused care is delivered.The successful applicant will support the Assistant Integrated Care Director in leading the transformation of services within the Community Adults Mental Health Transformation Programme. They will have extensive experience of working within and managing Community Adults Mental Health Services.

This role will provide overall managerial responsibility for the effective operational running of the three Mental Health & Wellness Teams, Early Intervention in Psychosis Service, Talking therapies, Older adults and memory services and Community learning disabilities service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, positive, motivated and highly committed individual who can work with us to support the work of these services.

As part of transformation to our services we have created fullyintegratedmulti disciplinary teams that include Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners, Peer Support Workers and Psychologists.

Our Mental Health and Wellness team are innovative, people centered and compassionate multi disciplinary teams which include colleagues from Primary Care, Local Authority and the voluntary sector.

This role will be instrumental in ensuring a coproducedholistic approach and willsupport teams to work cohesively and improve outcomes of Mental Health Care; they will enable teams to help our patients to identify and implement meaningful solutions to improve their health by using a whole system approach.

In alignment with the Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults, we intend for our teams to be trauma informed and person-centred, putting relationships back into the heart of care.

We encourage applicants who are keen to develop their skills in supporting and developing services and who enjoy working autonomously and with a ‘Quality Improvement’ mind-set. This post is open to both health and social care who registered with either Social Work England, HCPC or NMC.

To support transformation we have embedded an extensive matrix of training and development opportunities - For further information around development available in this post please contact Sangita Lall.

It is essential you have substantive experience of management within a mental health service.

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum).

We offer a network of support to enable you to effectively perform the duties of your role. We will provide you with regular supervision, team meetings, access to your clinical community of practice as well as support from colleagues within the MDT and wider trust network activities.

We are striving to make NELFT a fantastic place to work and we offer a range of employee benefits, please see our careers page at

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Click the link below to watch our video and get an insight into what it is like to work at NELFT within our Barking & Dagenham services, and the career opportunities that are available

Working for NELFT in Barking and Dagenham - YouTube
For further details / informal visits contact:

Name:Sangita Lall
Job title:Assistant Director Adults Services (B&D)
Email address:[email protected]
Telephone number: 03005551200 extension 67226

Additional contact information

To arrange an informal visit or call please contact:
Sian OConnell Personal Assistant to Sangita Lall Assistant Director Adults Services (Barking and Dagenham) NELFT
Email: [email protected] 03005551200 ext 58771

This advert closes on Wednesday 28 Feb 2024

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Salary

£4,313 per month