Working at SLaM

What we can offer you

• About 4,800 people are employed at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) - some of whom are world leaders in their field.
• By coming to work at the largest mental health training institution in the country, you will have every opportunity to develop within your role, maximise your potential and develop new skills to progress within your career. Our joint working relationship with the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London also means we can offer you unrivalled opportunities to become involved in academic research.
• Having been received Improving Working Lives Practice Plus accreditation, we have made real progress in creating a flexible, health and supporting working environment where staff are treated fairly and feel involved.

As a member of staff we will offer you...

• Opportunities for life-long learning and continuing professional development through mentoring, secondments, taught courses as well as bursaries for clinical development programmes.
• A wide range of flexible working options to support your work-home life balance - from part-time working, term-time working and job share to annualised hours and flexible retirement.
• Support and information on all aspects of childcare including availability at our on-site nurseries, finding a childcare provider, finding emergency childcare and information about childcare vouchers and tax credits.
• Advice and assistance on where finding suitable accommodation.
• use of our professional multidisciplinary library to support you with your research and your  studies, offering online electronic resources, current clinical journals, books and  access to a wide network of  inter-libraries loans schemes.
• Access to our confidential occupational health and counselling services the opportunity to influence the work of the organisation as a ‘staff member’ of SLaM.

As an employer, we are committed to:

• Ensuring that current and potential employees are treated with dignity, respect and fairness.
• Promoting conditions in which employees can reach their full potential and maximise their contribution to the work of the Trust.
• Tackling any signs of institutional racism or any form of discrimination.
• Taking positive action to promote equal opportunities and raising awareness of the value of diversity in employment with managers and staff.
• Employing a workforce whose composition reflects that of the communities it serves.

We are committed to good practice in employing disabled people, and will:

• Interview all disabled job applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities.
• Ask disabled employees, at least once a year, what can be done to make sure they can develop and use their abilities at work.
• Make every effort to keep staff in their jobs should they become disabled.
• Ensure that key employees develop the awareness needed to make their commitments work.
• Review these commitments annually, to plan improvement and to tell all employees about our achievements and future plans.