Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
26 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Ability to travel independently across the borough to undertake community visits, including to people's homes, supported accommodation and hospital sites.
- Other
Ability to work safely in community settings, including lone working in line with Trust policy.
- Other
Willingness to work flexibly across extended operating patterns should the service model change.
- Experience
Post registration experience at Band 6 or equivalent in a community mental health setting, working with people with severe and enduring mental illness.
- Experience
Experience of holding and managing a complex caseload, including assessment, care planning, risk management and review.
- Experience
Experience of providing clinical and management supervision to qualified staff.
- Experience
Experience of undertaking appraisals or Personal Development Reviews.
- Experience
Experience of day-to-day staffing management, including rostering, annual leave and sickness absence
- Experience
Experience of incident reporting and review, and of contributing to investigations,
- Experience
complaints and safeguarding processes.
- Experience
Experience of maintaining clinical records on an electronic patient record system, and of monitoring record keeping standards within a team.
- Knowledge & Skills
Detailed understanding of psychosis, rehabilitation and assertive outreach
- Knowledge & Skills
approaches and their impact on service users and carers.
- Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other legislation relevant to this client group
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in risk assessment and risk management, including in situations of high clinical complexity
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in engaging and sustaining contact with people who are reluctant or difficult to engage.
- Knowledge & Skills
Understanding of the needs of diverse communities and skills in engaging with people from a range of backgrounds.
- Knowledge & Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing, presentation and IT skills.
- Knowledge & Skills
Ability to work autonomously, prioritise competing demands and make decisions under pressure.
- Personal Qualities
Motivated, flexible and resilient in approach. • Able to build good relationships with service users, carers, staff, other professionals and external partners.
- Personal Qualities
Able to lead and motivate a team through a period of service change.
- Personal Qualities
Reliable, organised and able to hold responsibility consistently.
- Personal Qualities
Committed to inclusive practice and to supporting staff wellbeing.
- Qualifications & Training
Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, with current live registration with the NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
- Qualifications & Training
Post registration training and continuing professional development relevant to psychosis, rehabilitation or assertive outreach.
- Qualifications & Training
Training in supervision, mentorship or practice education.
Desirable
14 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience of working within a rehabilitation or assertive outreach service.
- Experience
Experience of deputising for a manager, or of holding day to day operational responsibility for a team.
- Experience
Experience of Healthroster or a comparable rostering system.
- Experience
Experience of RiO or SystmOne.
- Experience
Experience of leading or contributing to service change and quality improvement.
- Experience
Experience of working with supported accommodation and housing providers.
- Experience
Experience of working with people who use substances.
- Experience
Experience of audit, research or teaching.
- Knowledge & Skills
Skills in psychosocial interventions. Knowledge of dual diagnosis models and of working alongside substance misuse services.
- Qualifications & Training
Training in psychosocial interventions or Thorn.
- Qualifications & Training
Family therapy or family work training.
- Qualifications & Training
Training in substance misuse or dual diagnosis.
- Qualifications & Training
Degree or postgraduate qualification relevant to the care group.
- Qualifications & Training
Evidence of leadership or management training, or a willingness to undertake this.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to help shape a new specialist community mental health service in Hounslow.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical Team Lead to join our newly formed Hounslow Intensive Outreach & Rehabilitation Team (HIORT).
HIORT brings together our established Community Rehabilitation (CRS) and Assertive Outreach (AO) pathways into one integrated multidisciplinary team. This is an important development for Hounslow and an opportunity to build on the strengths, expertise and experience of both services, while retaining the distinct clinical approach each pathway needs and creating a more joined up offer for people with complex and enduring mental health needs.
As our Clinical Team Lead, you will be right at the heart of this development.
Working alongside the Band 8a Team Manager, and our wider multidisciplinary colleagues, you will help bring the new team together and shape how we work in practice. You will provide visible, supportive clinical leadership across both pathways, line manage and develop staff, support effective caseload management and clinical decision making, and help us establish a positive, accountable and compassionate team culture.
Main duties of the job
This is a hands-on clinical leadership role. Alongside your leadership and first line management responsibilities, you will retain a small caseload of people with highly complex needs and work alongside practitioners when clinical situations require senior support. We want someone who enjoys being close to clinical practice, supporting staff and finding practical solutions when things are difficult.
There is a real opportunity to make your mark. As HIORT develops, you will help us strengthen our clinical standards, embed effective ways of working across rehabilitation and assertive outreach, improve the experience of people using our services and ensure that staff feel supported to deliver excellent care.
You will be a registered mental health professional with a strong background in community mental health and in working with people with severe and enduring mental health needs. You will bring sound clinical judgement, confidence in managing complexity and risk, and the ability to lead people with warmth, clarity and accountability.
If you are ready for your next leadership challenge and excited by the opportunity to help build and shape a developing service, we would really like to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Team Leader with West London NHS Trust in Southall, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Team leader role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Oct 2026.
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