Islington Community Rehabilitation Team Manager/ Pathway Lead | North London NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£53,751 - £60,651 Per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, N7 8US
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	11 Nov 2026
Closing date:	11 Dec 2026

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Summary

The Team Lead will ensure that assessment, care planning and rehabilitation interventions are coordinated, person-centred, trauma-informed and recovery-focused. They will work with service users, carers, inpatient rehabilitation services, community mental health teams, social care, housing and supported accommodation providers to promote independence, social inclusion and safe transitions of care.

The postholder will provide operational and clinical leadership, manage and supervise designated staff, oversee referrals and caseload allocation, and ensure timely assessment and management of clinical and safeguarding risks. They will support professional development, quality assurance, effective documentation and delivery against agreed performance standards.

The role will contribute to rehabilitation pathway development and service improvement while maintaining a clear focus on ICRT’s established community rehabilitation function, safe staffing, multidisciplinary decision-making and clinically appropriate patient flow.

Responsible for: Day-to-day clinical and operational leadership of ICRT; line management and supervision of designated staff; referral, allocation, caseload and clinical risk oversight

North London Foundation Trust is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each b

orough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

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, rehabilitationprogressand community placement,and coordinatemultidisciplinary action toaddress 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.

- Ensurethe Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding legislation and relevant professional guidanceare 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 .

This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Nov 2026

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