Dementia Assessment Service (South) Team Leader

The post holder will lead the Dementia Assessment Service by providing clear clinical and operational direction, ensuring that the service responds effectively to referral demand and delivers high quality assessment and diagnostic pathways. They will be responsible for the overall coordination of the team, setting priorities, maintaining oversight of daily activity and ensuring work is allocated and managed safely. This includes supporting clinicians with complex decision making, overseeing safeguarding activity and ensuring appropriate risk management and escalation processes are followed. The post holder will ensure robust supervision and professional support arrangements are in place for all staff, promoting safe practice, staff wellbeing and consistent standards of care. They will support workforce planning, manage performance issues where required and contribute to recruitment, induction and development of staff. They will take responsibility for operational processes including referral management, waiting list oversight, monitoring of access and flow, and implementation of actions to address service pressures. The role includes oversight of quality and governance activity such as incidents, complaints, audits and service improvement work, ensuring learning is embedded within the team. The post holder will work closely with the Service Manager and relevant internal and external partners to support integrated working and continuity of care for people using the service and their carers. The role does not hold a clinical caseload but provides leadership and oversight that enables safe, effective and sustainable service delivery.