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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Lead to join our Mental Health Crisis Intervention and Home-Based Treatment Team. This newly created post will strengthen clinical leadership, governance and patient safety within a fast-paced crisis service.
This is a Monday to Friday role with no unsocial hours or weekend working, supporting a positive work–life balance.
The service provides intensive crisis intervention and home-based treatment, offering a safe alternative to admission and supporting care in the least restrictive environment. Care is recovery-focused, trauma informed, patient-centred and delivered through multidisciplinary, evidence-based practice.
The team also delivers the NHS 111 option 2 mental health crisis line, providing timely triage and support. The post holder will hold clinical responsibility for its safe and effective delivery, ensuring high standards of access and oversight.
Working within the senior leadership team, the post holder will provide clinical leadership across the service under the guidance of the Senior Clinical Lead.
A key focus will be clinical governance, patient safety and assurance, maintaining robust systems for oversight and continuous improvement. The role will also drive innovation and service development, while building strong partnerships with police, ambulance, VCSE and wider health and care services to ensure coordinated, patient-centred pathways.
Main duties of the job
Lead development and oversight of a robust clinical governance framework, ensuring monitoring, assurance and continuous quality improvement
Provide clinical leadership for patient safety, including incidents, risk management, serious incident review and embedding learning
Support staff in complex, high-risk decision-making, ensuring safe, consistent and evidence-based care
Promote and embed evidence-based practice in line with current guidance and best practice
Provide clinical leadership across crisis intervention, home treatment and the NHS 111 option 2 line, ensuring safe, timely and consistent triage and assessment
Maintain oversight of caseloads, patient flow, admission avoidance and discharge planning
Monitor clinical standards, audit activity and performance, ensuring compliance with local and national requirements
Lead and work within a multidisciplinary team, promoting communication, shared decision-making and holistic care
Ensure clinical pathways and interfaces are effective, coordinated and patient-centred
Contribute to multi-agency working, including safeguarding and shared risk management
Act as a visible clinical leader, providing supervision, mentorship and professional support
Promote a culture of reflective practice, accountability and continuous learning
Contribute to service development, innovation and quality improvement, enhancing patient outcomes
Champion service user and carer involvement in care and service development
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please consider applying if you are eager to be part of an inspiring team and that you are both passionate and dynamic.
For further information please see attached job description and person specification before submitting your application.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to implement quality improvement programmes.
- Experience of leading change in a clinical environment.
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
Desirable
- A breadth of practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Qualifications, Education and Training.
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Registered Social Worker, State Registered O/T or Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses.
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
Desirable
- Evidence of policy implementation and development
- Leadership/management qualification
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
Essential
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced/expert level
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This advert is for Clinical Lead with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in Hull, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jul 2026.
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