North London NHS Foundation Trust
Memory Service Team Leader
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Band 7 Team Leader Position
A Band 7 Team Leader position is available within the Haringey Memory Service at St Ann’s Hospital, Tottenham. This role is suited to an experienced and enthusiastic mental health practitioner with a strong interest in older people’s mental health and dementia care. The post offers the chance to contribute to the development of the newly implemented Dementia Diagnosis to End of Life pathway.
Role Summary
The successful candidate will provide expert clinical and managerial leadership to a skilled multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care for older adults requiring memory assessments and support. Responsibilities include leading service improvement initiatives, meeting local and national performance targets, and conducting assessments and follow-up reviews for patients with complex needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide professional, clinical, managerial, and supervisory leadership to the Haringey Memory Service team
- Be responsible for screening referrals to the service for assessment and diagnosis and assume responsibility for the coordination of referrals to team members and their workload management.
- Chair Haringey Memory Service referral meetings, business meetings, and service development forums
- Ensure the Haringey Memory Service is adequately and safely staffed within the agreed establishment
- Develop and implement effective supervision and appraisal systems for all staff ensuring the implementation of the Knowledge & Skills Framework
- Ensure effective communication is established within the team and external departments, e.g., regular staff meetings, attendance at Head of Department meetings. OMG and appropriate Service Line meetings.
- Participate in the development of pathways within the Directorate to ensure joint working across services in the delivery of care to patients.
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Experience and Skills
- Experience in older adult care, multidisciplinary working, and applying organisational protocols is essential.
- Strong communication skills, confidence in presenting, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively with internal and external partners are required.
- The role also involves contributing to system updates and implementing new processes aligned with Trust priorities.
Opportunities for Professional Development
This Band 7 position offers significant opportunities for professional development, including staff management, project involvement, and supporting team performance and growth.
About North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)
NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy
- 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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
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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.
Our Values
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
Working Conditions
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 falls 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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Uttara Mandal
- Job title: Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address: u.mandal@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02087026300
Best contact via email as she may not be able to answer your calls readily due to clinical responsibilities.
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