Sun Clinical Lead (Service User Network Groups): Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 72,719 to 83,505 £ / Year

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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 .

Person Specification

Professional Qualification

Essential

  • Professional Qualification (Psychological Therapy, OT, Social work , nursing
  • 5 Yeas 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 an project or area of service development

skills and abilites

Essential

  • Experience of delivery 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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Closing Date: 29 November 2026

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