Job overview

Our Mole Valley CMHRS team (Community Mental Health Recovery Service) is looking for a B7 Clinical Team Lead- NMC, HCPC (OT), SWE.

We are a Secondary Mental Health service offering assessments and evidence-based, time-limited treatments and psychological interventions for adults with severe and enduring mental health conditions. The core focus of our service is to promote recovery, independence, and self-management, helping individuals achieve their full potential within the community.

As Clinical Lead, you will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team that is welcoming, supportive, and dedicated to delivering high-quality care. Your role includes providing clinical leadership and supervision to all Band 6 clinicians within the CMHRS team. You will ensure the service operates safely, effectively, and efficiently as part of the wider mental health system.

Additionally, you will foster a culture that empowers individuals to actively participate in identifying, planning, and addressing their own needs. You will also deputise for the Service Manager when needed and undertake management responsibilities as required.

Main duties of the job

Ensure that clinicians within own care area maintain a sensible workload, the needs of which can be safely met within the time available, through supervision.

Participate in and lead meetings as appropriate.

Report all complaints and/or incidents relating to patients, relatives and/or staff within area as directed in accordance with the Trust’s Complaints Procedure, and ensure the Service Manager is informed. To co-operate with any investigations carried out. 

Promote effective liaison with all statutory and voluntary agencies concerned with Mental Health, ensuring an effective awareness of the role of the Primary Care Mental Health Senior Nurse Practitioner and its availability within Primary and Secondary Care ensuring that junior staff are supported and supervised to achieve this.

Deputise for the Service Manager as required in all areas detailed above.

Actively contribute to the development and review of Policies and Procedures based upon best practice/evidence to aid the development and efficient functioning of the Primary Care Mental Health Team.

Please refer the attached job description for full details.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

We look forward to receiving your application!