Clinical lead

Job overview

Are you passionate about making a real difference in mental health care? Join our dynamic Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIPS) and help transform lives by delivering exceptional, evidence-based care to those who need it most.

What You’ll Do

• Be a clinical leader, guiding and mentoring staff while managing a complex caseload.
• Deliver specialist mental health interventions, supporting service users with both short-term and enduring conditions.
• Drive innovation and quality, shaping care pathways and implementing audits to keep standards high.
• Act as a key link across mental health services, primary care, and partner agencies to ensure seamless, person-centred care.
• Inspire and support the next generation of practitioners through mentoring and education.
• A qualified mental health professional (NMC, HCPC or equivalent) with experience in community mental health.
• Strong leadership skills and a passion for collaborative working.
• Expertise in evidence-based interventions and care planning for complex cases.
• Commitment to continuous professional development and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a forward-thinking team that values innovation and holistic care.
• Opportunities for career progression and specialist training.
• Make a tangible impact on service users’ lives and shape the future of mental health care.

• Act as a core member of the Early Intervention in Psychosis Service (EIPS), ensuring delivery of high-quality care and achievement of KPI
• Attend multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and service user reviews to support effective care planning.
• Provide clinical leadership and guidance to junior staff, particularly in managing complex cases.
• Contribute to the development and review of service user pathways. Implement and maintain clinical audit and evaluation systems to monitor team performance.
• Manage a defined complex caseload, conducting assessments, care planning, and evaluation using specialist mental health expertise.
• Work within a shared caseload framework, organising reviews, discharge planning, and liaising with carers and professional

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Act as a specialist adviser to nursing staff, occupational therapists, GPs, and primary care colleagues.
• Participate in senior team meetings, tribunals, and prepare reports for multidisciplinary forums.
• Mentor staff and support learning opportunities for those seeking experience within the team.
• Refer carers for assessment in line with the Care Act.
• Deliver care for service users with short-term and long-term conditions, including those with severe and enduring mental health needs under the Mental Health Act.
• Facilitate transitions between EIPS and other services, ensuring continuity of care and appropriate discharge

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.