Clinical Lead

• 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

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

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

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