Sun Clinical Lead (Service User Network Groups) | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£72,719 - £83,505 pro rata per annum inc
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Woolwich, SE18 3RG
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	12 Nov 2026
Closing date:	12 Dec 2026

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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.

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 .

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

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.

This advert closes on Sunday 29 Nov 2026

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