Islington Community Rehabilitation Team Manager/ Pathway Lead


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£53,751 to £60,651 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, N7 8US
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Nov 2026
Closing date:	25 Nov 2026

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Summary

1. Clinical and Operational Leadership - Manage the day-to-day functioning of the service, including clinical priorities, referrals, caseload allocation, workforce capacity and operational performance. - Provide professional guidance and clinical oversight to multidisciplinary staff managing complex rehabilitation cases. - Ensure effective multidisciplinary assessments, clinical formulation, care planning, risk assessment and review processes. - Support staff in making clinically appropriate decisions, escalating concerns and managing competing priorities. - Chair and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, complex case reviews, safeguarding discussions and rehabilitation pathway meetings. - Promote a positive team culture based on professional accountability, compassionate leadership, reflective practice and continuous learning. 2. Rehabilitation and Recovery - Lead the delivery of specialist rehabilitation interventions for service users with severe and enduring mental illness and complex functional and psychosocial needs. - Promote practice that supports independence, self-management, meaningful occupation, community participation and improved quality of life. - Ensure that rehabilitation interventions are informed by clinical assessment, multidisciplinary formulation, evidence-based practice and individual recovery goals. - Support positive risk-taking where clinically appropriate, balancing autonomy, independence and safety. - Promote service user involvement, shared decision-making, equality, diversity and social inclusion. 3. Referrals, Caseload Management and Patient Flow - Oversee referral screening, assessment, prioritisation and allocation in accordance with agreed eligibility criteria and clinical need. - Ensure caseloads are managed effectively, taking account of complexity, clinical risk, workforce capacity and staff competencies. - Monitor waiting lists, unallocated cases and service capacity, escalating risks and delays appropriately. - Work collaboratively with inpatient rehabilitation services, community teams and partner agencies to support timely and clinically appropriate care transitions. - Identify barriers to discharge, rehabilitation progress and community placement, and coordinate multidisciplinary action to address them. - Contribute to complex discharge planning, including supported accommodation, housing, social care and statutory aftercare arrangements. - Ensure that decisions concerning rehabilitation provision and discharge are based on individual clinical and psychosocial needs. 4. Clinical Governance, Risk and Safeguarding - Ensure robust clinical governance arrangements are maintained across the team. - Oversee the quality and timeliness of clinical risk assessments, crisis plans, care plans and statutory documentation. - Provide leadership in managing complex clinical presentations, safeguarding concerns and risks to service users, carers, staff and the public. - Ensure the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding legislation and relevant professional guidance are applied appropriately. - Support staff in identifying, assessing and managing risks associated with mental health deterioration, self-neglect, exploitation, substance misuse and vulnerability. - Ensure incidents, complaints and safeguarding concerns are reported, investigated and escalated .

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