Secondment Clinical Lead - Adults Mental Health Team

Overview

Job locations: 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, RM3 0QA
.

We currently have a Secondment available due to maternity leave in our Older Havering Mental Health Team based in Gubbins Lane Harold Wood. We have invested in mental health worker posts, peer support workers posts and support time recovery workers to support the integrated team to work as one around the patient, their families and their social networks. Our vision is for this new investment to help start a new era in our mental healthcare provision at NELFT, making us among the most holistic, relational and person-centred services in the country.

This role encompasses supporting staff through clinical expertise and leadership to manage the Older Adult mental health team. It includes managing a duty rota, supporting staff and complex patients. The role includes attending and chairing MDTs, referrals and allocations meetings. There will be opportunities to supervise staff formally and informally. It will include management and support of the team s KPI s and supporting the manager as needed.

Our Values 2025 - 2030. Working with our colleagues, patients and carers, we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here y are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and equipment allocation. New starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers and attend drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes.

The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

Date posted: 30 January 2026

Pay scheme:
Agenda for Change

Band:
Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract:

Secondment

Working pattern:
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number: 395-HV006-26

26 Gubbins Lane;
Harold Wood; RM3 0QA

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role can be discussed at the interview stage.

Essential

• NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy
• Qualification in nursing or Occupational Therapy
• Current professional Registration
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Experience

• Minimum 4 years post qualification experience within a mental health setting
• Experience of working within community recovery or brief intervention services who treat and care for individuals in line with the Care Programme Approach and Care Act 2014
• Extensive experience of undertaking complex mental state assessment, risk and needs assessment with service users with severe and enduring mental illness
• Experience of providing managerial and clinical supervision to junior colleagues

Essential: completed training for students; taken students and supported placements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure to the DBS will be necessary. Certificate of Sponsorship:
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website. UK registration:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. See NHS Careers for details. Use of AI:
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address: 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, RM3 0QA