Job Description

Lewisham CMHT is a well-established, highly experienced and supportive team, comprised of Community Psychiatric Nurses, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychologists and Social Workers.



The team aims to guide service users towards realising an optimum level of functioning and support them to maintain good mental health.



The post holder will work as Care Coordinator for a caseload of service users in the local community who have complex mental health difficulties, and also work with their carers where applicable.



The post holder will be expected to have excellent self-management skills, and also work collaboratively within the team. The post holder must be able to formulate flexible, robust and holistic care plans with service users and/or carers, to work well under pressure, be experienced in dynamic risk assessment, and also to have excellent communication skills.



We would welcome applications from Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers who have significant experience and who are looking to develop new community skills and expertise in older adults.

About the location:

You will be based at 91 Granville Park, Lewisham, London, SE13 7DW



Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.



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 valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

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 support 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 a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes



Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars



Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites



NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services



Wellbeing events



Long service awards



Cycle to work scheme



Season ticket loan



Childcare vouchers



Staff restaurants



We look forward to receiving your application



We are looking for a Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker/Care Coordinator. For a more detailed job description and person specification please see the attachments in the documents section.