Clinical Lead

Job overview

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse seeking a new role?

The Oxford Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) plays a vital role in delivering urgent mental health crisis assessment, intervention, and home treatment to people experiencing acute mental health difficulties. Our aim is to provide timely, compassionate, person-centred care in the least restrictive environment wherever it is safe and appropriate.

Our Crisis Team operates within a dynamic, fast-paced, 24/7 service across Oxfordshire. We are seeking an experienced Registered Mental Health Professional to join us as a Crisis Clinical Lead on a full time basis.

We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic clinician with excellent leadership, clinical decision-making, and communication skills. The successful candidate will provide visible clinical leadership, supporting staff to deliver safe, effective, evidence-based care. They will be confident in managing complex presentations, undertaking robust risk assessments, coordinating urgent interventions, and working collaboratively with patients, carers, and partner agencies to achieve the best possible outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity for a clinician who is passionate about urgent mental health care, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and is committed to supporting others while driving continuous service improvement.

Main duties of the job

As a Crisis Clinical Lead, you will provide visible clinical leadership and operational support to the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), ensuring the safe, effective, and responsive delivery of urgent mental health care. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will support clinicians to deliver high-quality assessments, interventions, and care planning for people experiencing a mental health crisis.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing day-to-day clinical leadership and professional support to the multidisciplinary Crisis Team.
• Undertaking and overseeing comprehensive mental health, psychosocial, and risk assessments.
• Supporting clinicians to develop, implement, and review evidence-based care plans and crisis interventions.
• Promoting safe clinical decision-making and care in the least restrictive environment.
• Providing clinical supervision, mentorship, and support to registered and unregistered staff.
• Working collaboratively with inpatient, community, primary care, emergency services, and partner agencies to ensure seamless care.
• Leading on safeguarding, risk management, and clinical governance in line with Trust policies.
• Supporting Team Managers with service development, quality improvement, audit, and workforce performance.
• Acting as Clinical Shift Coordinator and deputising for the Team Manager when required.
• Promoting innovation, continuous learning, and a culture of compassionate, person-centred care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.