# Clinical Team Leader > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-team-leader/6424702d-f57e-4c89-a504-494bafcd5afe - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-team-leader/6424702d-f57e-4c89-a504-494bafcd5afe.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Catherine's Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical service manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (to cover 7 day service 8-8) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T14:40:47.662Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Wirral/Wirral_Community_Health_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Urgent_community_Response_Team/Urgent_community_Response_Team-v8298505 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8298505?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.wchc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity for a Clinical Team Leader within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service at Wirral has become available within The Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, the right candidate will provide operational and clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team delivering rapid assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and care to patients in their own homes. Working within the Community Integrated Response Team (CIRT), you will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred care for individuals experiencing a health crisis and at risk of hospital admission. You will lead and support a diverse team of healthcare professionals, promoting collaborative working and maintaining high standards of clinical practice. The role involves overseeing service delivery, managing resources, supporting staff development, and driving continuous improvement to ensure patients receive timely interventions that maximise independence and enable them to remain safely at home wherever possible. The Clinical Team Leader will work closely with health, social care, and system partners to coordinate care, improve patient outcomes, and contribute to the strategic objectives of the Trust by reducing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting admission avoidance pathways. ### Main duties of the job Providing high-quality, patient-centred assessment, treatment, and care to patients within their own homes and community settings, - Working clinically within the service to assess complex patients, formulate management plans, and coordinate multidisciplinary interventions to meet patient needs. - Alternating into the Shift Leader role to oversee daily operational management of the caseload, ensuring referrals are appropriately triaged, allocated, and managed in line with service priorities and response times. - Acting as a source of clinical expertise and support - Supporting junior staff through supervision, mentorship, clinical coaching, and competency development to ensure safe and effective patient care. - Supporting the implementation of service improvements, quality initiatives, audits, and governance processes to enhance patient outcomes and service performance. - Contributing to workforce management responsibilities, including sickness management, performance conversations, annual appraisals, and staff wellbeing support. - Deputising for the Service Lead when required, providing operational and clinical leadership, representing the service at meetings, and ensuring continuity of service delivery. - Supporting the development of innovative pathways and models of care that enhance integrated, community-based service provision. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Clinical Team Leader will work as part of the Urgent Community Response Service, providing a combination of direct clinical care and operational leadership. The post holder will undertake face-to-face clinical assessments and interventions for patients referred to the service, whilst alternating into the Shift Leader role to support effective service delivery, caseload management, and clinical oversight ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Personal qualities **Essential** - Ability to work flexibly as part of an out of hours rota - Able to build effective relationships that engage and support individuals and teams in change - Ability to influence and negotiate - Leadership qualities - Access to a car for work purposes ### skills and attributes **Essential** - Effective interpersonal and communication skills at multi disciplinary level - Excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages - Evidence of self-management, organisation and time management skills - Demonstrates negotiation skills through working in partnership with others - Problem recognition and problem solving skills, including conflict resolution - Ability to work to regular, tight deadlines - Ability to produce high quality reports - Facilitation skills - Networking Skills - Able to adopt a whole systems approach to strategic thinking - Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds - Ability to hold others to account for delivery of clinical care and outcomes - Ability to assess impact of service changes on wider organisational policy / practice - Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills ### Experience and knowledge **Essential** - Experience of leading a clinical team - Experience of operational and strategic planning - Evidence of effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work - Ability to manage staff effectively and get results through teamwork ### Qualifications and professional training **Essential** - Registered with the Health care professionals council or relevant professional body (if appropriate) - Degree/ Diploma in relevant clinical area - Evidence of portfolio of knowledge, skills and professional development **Desirable** - MSC in Advanced Practice - V300 independent nurse prescriber qualification ## Documents - [clinical team leader (pdf, 720.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10646786) - [clinical team leader personal spec (pdf, 448.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10617575) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.