Clinical Lead

• As the Clinical Lead for the Enhanced Mental Health Community Pathway, you will provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across adult community mental health services. You will be accountable for ensuring the delivery of high-quality clinical care while supporting the ongoing transformation of services in line with local and national community mental health programmes.
• Working closely with the Operational Lead and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will balance clinical leadership, workforce development, governance, innovation, and service improvement to create services that are safe, effective, accessible, and recovery-focused.
• You will be a visible and influential leader who inspires confidence, promotes best practice, and supports teams to deliver exceptional care for the communities we serve.

Essential

• Registered under the NMC or HCPC
• Educated to Post Graduate Level or Degree plus significant advanced knowledge acquired through experience of community based mental health interventions and additional specialist training.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. mental health act, mental capacity Act
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Desirable

• Teaching qualification
• Advanced clinical qualification in CBT,DBT etc / Medication Management / Advanced Practice
• Member of organisational group/network, locally/regionally/nationally
• Post-graduate/Masters level certificate
• Be on the live register of mentors if required for the service area

Essential

• Evidence of leadership and organisational development issues that have had a positive impact on service delivery
• Experience of successful clinical policy implementation and change
• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice in community mental health setting
• Evidence of professional development work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change, that impacts beyond own area of work
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the service area
• Proven leadership experience at an advanced level which has had a positive impact/created change within service delivery/practice

Essential

• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Organisational networking locally, regionally, nationally
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Good time & project management skills
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Sound experience/knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Standard IT skills with working knowledge of IT systems relevant to own area of work
• Frequent concentration required where the work pattern is unpredictable.