# Community Team Leader - Perinatal Mental Health > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-team-leader-perinatal-mental-health/98b617f7-a960-401a-9b77-3d5242d2be61 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-team-leader-perinatal-mental-health/98b617f7-a960-401a-9b77-3d5242d2be61.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £56,276 - £63,176 per annum inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-23T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-09T11:30:52.026Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Dugard_Way_London/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Mental_Health/Community_Mental_Health-v8069342 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8069342?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinician into a Team Leader’s role for Lambeth or Croydon teams. They will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place. The post holder will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery, CMHTs, Health Visitors and Voluntary sector. You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistent skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings. There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of services users at the centre of care delivery. The post holder will carry our clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the codes of Professional Conduct. The post holder will have a person-centred approach to practice. ### Main duties of the job Management of care and practice Management of Financial and Material Resources Management of Clinical Standards Management of Human Resources Management of Information and Communication Management of the Environment ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group. - To provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co-ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload. - Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff. All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines. - Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources. - Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies. - Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users’ dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals’ independence. - Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting Improving Working Lives within the confines of a safe service. ## Job Details We are seeking to recruit two enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident clinician into a Team Leader’s role for Lambeth or Croydon teams. They will have overall management responsibility for the delivery of care within an integrated community perinatal service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures. The post holder will lead a team of professional and support staff in the delivery of high quality evidence-based practice, ensuring that regular supervision and appraisal take place. The post holder will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery, CMHTs, Health Visitors and Voluntary sector. You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistent skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings. There is an expectation that the post holder will place the needs of services users at the centre of care delivery. The post holder will carry our clinical and managerial procedures to a standard that ensures safe and effective care, and complies with the codes of Professional Conduct. The post holder will have a person-centred approach to practice. ## Job Description Management of care and practice Management of Financial and Material Resources Management of Clinical Standards Management of Human Resources Management of Information and Communication Management of the Environment ## Responsibilities Ensure that all clinical practice is developed using up to date evidence base, ensuring that all staff have the appropriate skill base and supporting mechanisms to access training to work with the service user group. To provide assessment, care and treatment as a care co-ordinator to women held on the perinatal caseload. Ensure team finances are managed within allocated budget, including recruitment of staff. All absences, bank and agency are managed within budget and Trust guidelines. Communicate to all staff how they can contribute to the efficient management of financial and material resources. Set, monitor and evaluate overall standards of care and practice in the team in liaison with the Clinical service lead and Service Manager, Professional Advisors, and other agencies. Ensure that all practices and interactions in the team are based on the preservation and respect of service users’ dignity, individual and cultural identity, wishes (whenever possible) and are in accordance with the maintenance of individuals’ independence. Maintain the efficient use of staffing resources in the team, ensuring that staffing levels are safe, appropriate and contain the necessary skill mix, but recognising and supporting Improving Working Lives within the confines of a safe service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of managing clinical practice in a mental health service - Experience of implementing and monitoring standards of care - Experience of providing clinical and managerial supervision - Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team **Desirable** - Experience of working with pregnant and postnatal women and of using a variety of models and approaches to care - Experience of implementing significant changes in working practices ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Nurse-Mental Health or other professional registration such as Occupational Therapy & Social Work - Mentorship Course (or other relevant teaching/assessment course) - Evidence of continuing professional development **Desirable** - Master level qualification ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Specialist clinical knowledge relevant to the service, including evidence based practice. - Understanding of the role and function of other organisations providing services to people with mental ill-health. ## Documents - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [jd and person spec (pdf, 664.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10360625) - [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.