Clinical Team Leader

• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of service users through effective clinical assessment, risk management, and evidence-based interventions.
• Lead, support, and supervise Band 5 nurses, healthcare support workers, and students, promoting safe practice and professional development.
• Work collaboratively with service users, carers, families, and the multidisciplinary team to promote recovery-focused care and positive patient experience.
• Coordinate daily ward activity including patient flow, bed management, staffing, and allocation of resources to ensure safe and effective service delivery.
• Support the Ward Manager in maintaining clinical governance standards, managing incidents, implementing service improvements, and ensuring compliance with quality and safety requirements.
• Undertake the role of Nurse in Charge and Unit Coordinator when required, providing senior clinical leadership, especially during escalation and out-of-hours periods.
• Promote effective communication across the multidisciplinary team and with external agencies to ensure safe, coordinated care pathways.
• Contribute to staff development through supervision, appraisal, training, and mentorship, supporting a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills with a commitment to compassionate, recovery-focused care and a positive team culture.

• Use sound clinical judgement and effective risk assessment skills to maintain the safety of all service users.
• Safeguard adults and children at risk of abuse by recognising concerns early, escalating appropriately, and seeking support when required.
• Act as patient advocates by escalating safety concerns and ensuring appropriate action is taken to protect service users.
• Demonstrate openness and transparency in their clinical practice and decision-making.
• Supervise, support, and monitor the practice of junior staff and unregistered team members.
• Reflect on practice regularly to identify learning needs and opportunities to improve safety and quality of care.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within the team and wider service.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive clinical documentation in line with professional standards.
• Ensure compliance with mandatory training and professional development requirements.
• Work in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct and maintain annual registration, upholding professional accountability at all times.

• Practising autonomously while taking responsibility for both direct patient care and the supervision of others within the team.
• Delivering evidence-based nursing care in line with Trust policies, procedures, and best practice guidelines.
• Actively involving service users and their families in care planning, including a comprehensive assessment of risks and needs.
• Acting as a strong patient advocate within the multidisciplinary team, ensuring care remains responsive and person-centred.
• Supporting team performance and cohesion by: - Communicating effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Understanding individual roles and contributions within the wider team structure
• Promoting reflective practice through handovers and team discussions
• Encouraging learning from incidents, audits, benchmarking, and adverse events to improve care delivery
• Contributing to the development of high-performing teams that continuously improve clinical outcomes and service quality.

• Excellent development opportunities to support your career progression, including secondments, rotations, and funded training courses
• Structured career mapping with a clear focus on progression within the service
• Flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance
• A dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team environment with visible senior leadership, including Matron, Service Manager, and Borough Director
• A comprehensive staff benefits package, including childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, and cycle-to-work scheme
• Access to award-winning staff networks that promote inclusion, support, and professional development
• Recognition through internal award ceremonies and staff celebration events

Essential

• UK NMC Registered Nurse Mental Health
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

• Mentorship Qualification

Essential

• Previous experience as a Band 5 nurse

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• You are expected to have the skills required to act as a professional, registered nurse and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Medicines management and administration
• Obtaining Consent
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
• Safeguarding and advocacy
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Supervise others in the team and facilitate appraisals
• Coordinate work allocation and shifts (if appropriate)

Essential

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals