Hawthorn Recovery Unit Team Leader

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

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 key workers.

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

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• 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.

Key responsibilities

Clinical and Managerial Leadership

Staff management

Service Development

Recruitment

Quality Improvement

Resource management

Clinical interventions

• 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
• Further training - Leadership, supervision or mentoring, training
• Post graduate training relevant to older people and / or mental health

• 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
• Experienced using Rio patient electronic records and caseload management
• Experience of change management

• Knowledge of leadership and quality improvement
• Specialist knowledge relating to mental health care delivery including Dialog plus, Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding
• understanding of medication management including controlled drugs and FP10's

• 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
• Effective IT skills to use a range of electronic systems
• Specialist clinical skills developed through professional training eg health coaching, CBT, motivational interviewing

• Personal Resilience to manage varied and busy workload and complex clinical needs
• Highly committed to teamwork
• Confidence as a clinician and leader

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