Clinical Team Leader; Community Addictions

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring and creative people to come and join us and work within an exciting and fast paced environment that provides high quality addictions and recovery care to a diverse service user group. We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Clinical Team Leader to lead the multi-disciplinary team in Richmond, clinically supervising a mixture of nurses and recovery workers who provide assessments, care planning, treatment and support to people with drug and alcohol issues to promote health, independence and recovery.

The team also works with volunteers and peer mentors to enhance the offer.

To undertake clinical and management responsibility for the nurses and recovery workers in Richmond Community Drug and Alcohol Service and have an operational overview on the day to day running of the service. This will include ensuring the service is safe and effective, delivers on all performance targets and achieves positive outcomes with clients.

The Team Leader will as part of a senior management team oversee the on-going development of recovery focused and evidence based interventions in order to meet the needs of a group of service users with multiple complex physical, psychological and social needs across Richmond. It is vital that the post holder has effective leadership skills, can implement and manage change, has a proactive approach to communication and is skilled in developing links and maintaining partnership arrangements with other services across the borough, as well as within the Consortium.

Currently the Richmond service is based in Twickenham, very close to the high street and local amenities, and less than a ten minute walk from the local train station. The Richmond team join Wandsworth colleagues at our Battersea site (close to Clapham Junction) for weekly training and travel is reimbursed for this.

We champion Freedom To Speak Up locally, as well as actively ensuring an inclusive and anti-racist stance within the workplace and the work we do.

SLaM Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone
2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; we currently also provide substance misuse services for the residents of Bexley and Lambeth as well as within Kings College Hospital.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Jane Eastaway

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