Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Sun Clinical Lead (Service User Network Groups)
The closing date is 22 November 2026

Job summary
The SUN (Service User Network) clinical lead plans delivery and development of SUN groups in Oxleas Trust including training staff, planning and overseeing delivery and leading evaluation in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.

The postholder will also lead development of Sun members forums and Sun community in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

• Planning training programme and observations for Sun facilitators, supporting operational managers to plan rotas, ensuring clinical governance of groups including supervision of groups and training of supervisors.
• Planning evaluation of Sun Groups including qualitative and quantitative feedback from Sun members and facilitators and quantitative data on attendance and impact on crisis contacts.
• Planning staffing and expansion of Sun groups and ensuring this is an integral part of delivery in treatment pathways in mental health services.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Details
Date posted: 12 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £72,719 to £83,505 a year pro rata per annum inc
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 277-8353714-CMH
Job locations: Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich, SE18 3RG, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities

• To take a lead on setting up Sun groups in Bexley and Greenwich and developing Sun groups in Bromley including setting up operational processes, clinical governance and supervision structures in each borough consultation with the Sun clinical lead.
• Supervision of Sun groups facilitators
• Regular report on the progress of the SUN group roll out and any risks of these plans to the Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care Adult Mental Health and relevant stakeholders.
• Evaluate and develop a model of Sun Group Delivery in Adult Mental Health
• Updating the Sun Group operational Policy
• Develop structures for operational management, Clinical governance and clinical supervision.
• Ongoing training programme to ensure the continued development of staff trained to facilitate Sun groups
• To oversee operational processes for Sun groups in each of the three boroughs
• To liaise with operational lead from the borough adapt teams to book rooms and to organise rotas for the groups in each borough.
• Work alongside operational lead in each borough to ensure referral processes are maintained
• To work with clinical lead to ensure clinical supervision structures are set up in each borough. Be up to date and proficient in the use of social media and virtual technologies to support this work.
• To plan ongoing training on an annual basis for new facilitators
• To gather, analyse and use workforce and other data to underpin plans and evaluation
• To keep stakeholders up to date on project progress and risks
• To develop an inclusive approach to the Sun model monitoring staff and service users involvement from diverse backgrounds creating a psychologically safe environment for the groups and advocating the principles of trauma-informed care
• To maintain a strong focus on collaboration and coproduction of the workstream; ensuring all projects understand service User and staff needs and views
• To receive and provide training as appropriate to the role in line with national developments in Sun group model.
• To undertake service evaluation, audit, research and policy development.
• To work as an autonomous professional within appropriate professional guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.
• To work as an autonomous professional within BPS and HCPC or other profession specific guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by principles and policies or procedures of the service, taking responsibility for interpreting policies within defined parameters.

Person Specification
Professional Qualification (Essential): Professional Qualification (Psychological Therapy, OT, Social work, nursing); 5 years post qualification in Mental Health Setting
Clinical Experience (Essential): Experience of working in Mental Health services with severe mental illness including personality disorder; Experience of leading group programmes in mental health setting
Leadership (Essential): Experience of managing and supervising staff; Experience of leading a project or area of service development
Skills and abilities (Essential): Experience of delivering training to staff

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Memorial Hospital, Shooters Hill, Woolwich, SE18 3RG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: http://oxleas.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Head of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care, Dr Lucy Hickey, lucy.hickey1@nhs.net, 07789615536

Supporting documents
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality and diversity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.