West London NHS Trust
Team Leader
The closing date is 15 November 2026

Job summary
An exciting opportunity to help shape a new specialist community mental health service in Hounslow.

Band 7 Clinical Team Lead | 6-Month Secondment or Fixed-Term Opportunity
Hounslow Intensive Outreach & Rehabilitation Team (HIORT)
An exciting six-month opportunity to provide clinical leadership and help shape a developing specialist community mental health service in Hounslow.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Band 7 Clinical Team Lead to join our newly formed Hounslow Intensive Outreach & Rehabilitation Team (HIORT) on a six-month secondment or fixed-term contract.

HIORT brings together our established Community Rehabilitation (CRS) and Assertive Outreach (AO) pathways into one integrated multidisciplinary team. This is an important development for Hounslow, building on the strengths and expertise of both services while retaining the distinct clinical approaches required by each pathway.

As our Clinical Team Lead, you will play a key role in supporting the team through this important period of development.

Working alongside the Band 8a Team Manager and wider multidisciplinary colleagues, you will provide visible, supportive clinical leadership across both pathways. You will support staff development, effective caseload management, clinical decision-making and the establishment of consistent, safe and recovery-focused ways of working.

Main duties of the job
This is a hands-on clinical leadership role. Alongside your leadership and first-line management responsibilities, you will retain a small caseload of people with highly complex needs and work alongside practitioners when clinical situations require senior support. We are looking for someone who enjoys being close to clinical practice, supporting colleagues and finding practical solutions to complex challenges.

Over the six-month period, you will have a real opportunity to make a difference. You will help strengthen clinical standards, embed effective multidisciplinary working across rehabilitation and assertive outreach, and contribute to developing a positive, compassionate and accountable team culture.

You will be a registered mental health professional with a strong background in community mental health and experience supporting people with severe and enduring mental health needs. You will bring sound clinical judgement, confidence in managing complexity and risk, and an approachable, supportive leadership style.

This opportunity may particularly appeal to an experienced Band 6 practitioner looking to develop their clinical leadership and management experience, or an existing Band 7 seeking an opportunity to contribute to the development of a new service.

If you are looking for a new challenge and would welcome the opportunity to help shape HIORT during this important stage of its development, we would love to hear from you

About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Details
Date posted: 12 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year, per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 6 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 222-LS-Man-217
Job locations: Heart of Hounslow Health Centre, 2nd Floor 92 Bath Road, London, TW3 3EL, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training

• Essential: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, with current live registration with the NMC, HCPC or Social Work England.
• Essential: Post registration training and continuing professional development relevant to psychosis, rehabilitation or assertive outreach.
• Essential: Training in supervision, mentorship or practice education.
• Desirable: Training in psychosocial interventions or Thorn.
• Desirable: Family therapy or family work training.
• Desirable: Training in substance misuse or dual diagnosis.
• Desirable: Degree or postgraduate qualification relevant to the care group.
• Desirable: Evidence of leadership or management training, or a willingness to undertake this.

Knowledge & Skills

• Essential: Detailed understanding of psychosis, rehabilitation and assertive outreach approaches and their impact on service users and carers.
• Essential: Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other legislation relevant to this client group.
• Essential: Skills in risk assessment and risk management, including in situations of high clinical complexity.
• Essential: Skills in engaging and sustaining contact with people who are reluctant or difficult to engage.
• Essential: Understanding of the needs of diverse communities and skills in engaging with people from a range of backgrounds.
• Essential: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing, presentation and IT skills.
• Essential: Ability to work autonomously, prioritise competing demands and make decisions under pressure.
• Desirable: Skills in psychosocial interventions. Knowledge of dual diagnosis models and of working alongside substance misuse services.

Experience

• Essential: Post registration experience at Band 6 or equivalent in a community mental health setting, working with people with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Essential: Experience of holding and managing a complex caseload, including assessment, care planning, risk management and review.
• Essential: Experience of providing clinical and management supervision to qualified staff.
• Essential: Experience of undertaking appraisals or Personal Development Reviews.
• Essential: Experience of day-to-day staffing management, including rostering, annual leave and sickness absence.
• Essential: Experience of incident reporting and review, and of contributing to investigations, complaints and safeguarding processes.
• Essential: Experience of maintaining clinical records on an electronic patient record system, and of monitoring record keeping standards within a team.
• Desirable: Experience of working within a rehabilitation or assertive outreach service.
• Desirable: Experience of deputising for a manager, or of holding day to day operational responsibility for a team.
• Desirable: Experience of Healthroster or a comparable rostering system.
• Desirable: Experience of RiO or SystmOne.
• Desirable: Experience of leading or contributing to service change and quality improvement.
• Desirable: Experience of working with supported accommodation and housing providers.
• Desirable: Experience of working with people who use substances.
• Desirable: Experience of audit, research or teaching.

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Motivated, flexible and resilient in approach.
• Essential: Able to lead and motivate a team through a period of service change.
• Essential: Reliable, organised and able to hold responsibility consistently.
• Essential: Committed to inclusive practice and to supporting staff wellbeing.
• Essential: Able to build good relationships with service users, carers, staff, other professionals and external partners.

Other

• Essential: Ability to travel independently across the borough to undertake community visits, including to people's homes, supported accommodation and hospital sites.
• Essential: Ability to work safely in community settings, including lone working in line with Trust policy.
• Essential: Willingness to work flexibly across extended operating patterns should the service model change.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: West London NHS Trust
Address: Heart of Hounslow Health Centre, 2nd Floor 92 Bath Road, London, TW3 3EL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Service Manager, Belinda Manyumbu, belinda.manyumbu@nhs.net, 07484543424

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