Lambeth Single Point of Access Team Leader

Lambeth Single Point of Access (SPA) are a team of mental health professionals, support workers and social workers who can help you access one of three Living Well Centres. These offer short and longer term support from our teams of clinicians, social workers, people with lived experience and support workers; or if appropriate, whether a team that can visit you if you require mental health crisis support within 24 hours; as well as other services and community groups who can support you.

We are a part of the Lambeth Alliance, and we have a close interface with a variety of SLaM services, other statutory organisations (inc. social care) and voluntary sector.

The Lambeth Living Well Network (LWN) Alliance brings together Certitude, Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group, Lambeth Council, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Thames Reach organisations to deliver an innovative way of providing mental health support for those who need it in the Lambeth Borough; a fully integrated and coordinated mental health system which focuses on people’s strengths and supports their whole health and wellbeing.

As part of our journey to realising a fully integrated system, we have set up 3 Living Well Centres in Lambeth. The SPA is the front door for mental health services in Lambeth.

We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic candidates, with strong leadership skills and a commitment to delivering high standards of care.

You will be expected to lead and manage the team, work in partnership with the clinical expert and other senior members of the team to provide management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community team, in accordance with trust and Alliance policies and procedures. You will co-ordinate multidisciplinary working, maintaining excellent communication and working relationships with all team members, and other services within the Trust and the Alliance and to ensure effective interface and continuity of care between disciplines and services.

The post holder will take a lead in the development of identified areas of professional practice within the service to ensure high levels of clinical excellence and that training and professional development needs are met within the team.

Take responsibility for the provision of regular supervision and appraisal of identified team members, ensuring the delivery of high-quality evidence-based practice, within the overall structure of the team. To manage administrative and operational resources in a cost-effective manner, evaluating the standard of service delivered.

Working as part of the MDT you will ensure a timely, safe, effective and responsive service delivery in line with the LWN Alliance “three Big Outcomes” for people living in Lambeth who experience mental distress:

1. To recover and stay well
2. To make their own choices
3. To participate on an equal footing in daily life.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you are valued and appreciated, and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work-life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation, our staff benefit from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sara Dampier Job title: SPA Operational Lead Email address:

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