Clinical Team Leader

• 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.

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

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

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

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