Clinical Lead

Job overview

We are looking for Clinical Leads across our Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units.

The Clinical Leads will provide advice, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the teams and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in adult mental health inpatient settings.

They will work closely with other members of the wider multidisciplinary team and service users to initiate, develop and implement effective pathways and approaches to meet the needs of the service users.

Main duties of the job

Providing advice, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision & training to teams.

Provide experienced clinical knowledge, assessment and support in the development of complex assessments and formulation.

Have excellent clinical and risk assessment skills, whilst also applying a holistic approach to assessing the health and social needs of people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.

Clinical Leads will be responsible for referring and signposting to secondary mental health services, or alternative statutory or non-statutory agencies, and will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Work closely with other members of the wider multidisciplinary team and service users to initiate, develop and implement effective pathways and approaches to meet the needs of the service users.

Planning and developing services as well as contributing to programmes of research and audit in line with NICE and other national guidelines for clinical development and current Trust practices.

Clinical leads will be required to support in the provision of learning to a variety of educational levels.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.

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.