Team Manager | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Mitcham, CR4 4TP |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7304176/294-COMM-7304176-JB |
Summary
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic manager to lead our Integrated Recovery Hub Team. You will be part of a multiprofessional service alongside a wider management group of staff, consisting of other Team Managers, Clinical Manager, Clinical Service Lead, and the wider Psychology and Medical workforce to provide excellent evidence-based care to adults across Merton with secondary care mental health needs.
This team is proactive in utilising multidisciplinary roles to provide recovery and outcome focused interventions to service users, whilst meeting targets.
The successful candidate will be an experienced mental health professional with knowledge and skills in leadership, managing staff, and be a team player committed to innovation and service development. The successful person will support the ongoing transformation of community mental health services. You will establish relationships and communication links with their local and external stakeholders and primary care networks.
This role requires the ability to multitask, incorporating service development, operational and people management as well as ensuring that data quality and the meeting of targets. Excellent communication, technical and organisational skills are essential.
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.
• To be responsible for the smooth and effective operational management and co-ordination of the IRH.
• To work in close partnership with the multi-disciplinary team to actively promoting team working.
• To have regular co-ordination meetings with the team to ensure that the separate elements of team accountabilities are fully addressed.
• To hold full managerial responsibility for all individual IRH staff members (excluding the doctors) ensuring the various disciplines work within an agreed operational policy and providing support and consultation in the process.
• Working closely with the consultant psychiatrist, to ensure that all medically qualified members of the team adhere to operational policies and fully engage in the multi-disciplinary process.
• To work collaboratively with the administration manager manage and supervise administrative and secretarial staff in the team.
• To ensure that all performance information identified as necessary is collected according to the timescale required.
• To ensure systems are in place to manage intake, allocation, caseloads and clinical review in the team.
• To carry through all agreed procedures in regard to staff disciplinary and sickness absence arrangements for both Trust and Social Services Systems as appropriate to the level of the post. Working with the Clinical Manager and professional heads of discipline where required to process these issues.
• To promote the Trust’s Equal Opportunities strategy and implement procedures to further this process.
This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025