South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Service Manager Mental Health Urgent Treatment Centre (MHUTC)
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Southwark Directorate: Service Manager for Mental Health Urgent Treatment Centre (MHUTC)
The Southwark Directorate is recruiting a dynamic and visionary Service Manager to lead a vital service within the urgent care pathway: the Mental Health Urgent Treatment Centre (MHUTC).
MHUTC is a new service in development, designed to provide rapid assessment and treatment for individuals in mental health crisis. The post holder will play a key role in co-producing its design and implementation with system partners and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Strategic and operational leadership across both services.
- Driving service innovation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborating across the urgent care pathway and supporting Trust-wide objectives.
We Are Seeking a Candidate With
- Proven operational leadership in mental health or urgent care.
- Strong clinical governance and quality improvement expertise.
- A strategic, creative mindset and resilience in fast-paced settings.
If you're passionate about improving urgent mental health care and want to join an ambitious, forward-thinking team, we encourage you to apply.
Job Description
Leadership and Management
- Provision of leadership to MHUTC team in conjunction with the Consultant and Team Manager to coordinate, develop, and manage the service’s strategic and operational plans.
- Management of the clinical teams to ensure integrated clinical, operational, quality, and financial outcomes are achieved within the service line.
- Joint accountability with the lead clinician to ensure good throughput management utilizing demand and capacity information.
- Exercising systematic clinical governance of their professional practice and that of the team.
- Provision of specialist components of the service by coordinating and planning, considering the training, skill mix, and experience of the team alongside the leadership team.
- To lead working with colleagues on the regular and systematic evaluation of care standards via formal audit or other methods, ensuring that any necessary changes are implemented. Use real-time data to drive daily operational decisions.
- To provide strong, effective, and decisive clinical leadership to Team leaders to ensure a high standard of patient care is achieved.
- To lead on the development and implementation of effective systems for monitoring and improving the quality of urgent care and performance across the MDT, as well as expected Trust KPIs for the pathway.
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Benefits Offered By SLAM
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated, and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
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Some Of Our Benefits Are Highlighted Here
- Generous pay, pensions, and leave: We offer a comprehensive pay, pensions, and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work-life balance: Flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development: There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through several programs such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programs.
For Further Details
For further details, please refer to the attached Job Description (JD).
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Olabisi Osimokun
- Job title: Associate Director for Urgent Care
- Email address: olabisi.osimokun@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07525237437
For an informal chat, please contact Olabisi.Osimokun@slam.nhs.uk
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