# Sun Clinical Lead (Service User Network Groups)

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Woolwich
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £72719.00 to £83505.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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.

**Job responsibilities**

- 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mental Health
- Group Programmes
- Leadership
- Training
- Clinical Governance
- Evaluation
- Project Management

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