Assistant Clinical Lead

Job overview

Band 8B Assistant Clinical Lead Role (ACL)- Permanent

Assistant Clinical Lead – Crisis Care Home-Based Intensive Support Team

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Alder Hey is seeking to recruit an Assistant Clinical Lead (ACL) to support leadership within the Home-Based Intensive Support Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Service Leadership: Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team (MDT), ensuring high-quality clinical care and operational effectiveness.
• Strategic Development: Support the long-term planning and sustainability of the service in line with Trust and service goals.
• Partnership Working: Collaborate with external partners across health, education, and local authority sectors to deliver integrated care.
• Clinical Supervision: Provide clinical and operational supervision to team members, promoting best practices and professional development.
• Performance Oversight: Contribute to service performance monitoring and improvement, under the guidance of the Clinical Lead.

Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for a motivated, confident leader with a passion for improving children and young people’s mental health services. The role requires strong communication skills, the ability to work across organisational boundaries, and a commitment to clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

The Assistant Clinical Lead is a key member of the Crisis Care Community Division Mental Health Services Leadership Team based at Alder Hey Children's hospital and will be responsible for the clinical management of their MDT in addition to providing clinical supervision to assigned clinicians.

The post will support clinical, strategic and performance leadership for the service and will also perform responsibilities delegated by the Clinical Lead as appropriate, including being responsible for designated areas of service development and leadership tasks – this will be guided by the Clinical Lead and the Service and Trust’s vision.

Clinically, the post holder will support staff via clinical supervision and operational supervision to ensure the team are supported to provide clinical intervention of the highest standard.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL MANAGEMENT / CLINICAL LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE Clinical Management

• To support team members to assess, treat and discharge children and young people effectively.
• To ensure appropriate data is completed by clinicians within their MDT e.g. Routine outcome measures and other clinical documents.
• Oversee safe use of equipment and resources
• Conduct appraisals of staff within the team (Performance & Development Reviews)
• Identify training needs and coordination of continuing professional development in conjunction with the wider Leadership team
• Provide clinical supervision support to staff from own and other services /teams as agreed with the Clinical Lead