Clinical Team Leader

• Supporting leadership staff in developing the team and service.
• Leading the delivery of the service and ensuring operational effectiveness.
• Providing line management and clinical leadership for staff within the team.
• Managing day-to-day clinical issues and ensuring timely resolution.Ensuring a responsive, high-quality service for patients, staff, and partner systems.
• Maintaining compliance with the Trust's key performance indicators and service standards.
• Achieving key performance indicators for service delivery.
• Leading participation and engagement within the team.
• Ensuring clinical outcome data is routinely entered, accurately collated, and used to inform service improvement.
• Producing regular reports and information to support team and service development.
• Guaranteeing compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, standard operating procedures, and protocols to deliver a safe, caring, and effective service for service users, their families, and carers.

Essential

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Children Act, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Mental Health legislation relevant to the clinical area
• Current professional registration
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level

Desirable

• Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area
• Detailed understanding of all current Mental Health Legislation
• Evidence of undertaking research
• Evidence of policy implementation and development

Essential

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
• Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Professional networking locally and regionally
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings

Desirable

• A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced/expert level
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
• Management of delegated budgets

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Good time management skills
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
• Working 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

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 level