Clinical Lead – Positive Steps Together Programme

Company: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Apply for the Clinical Lead – Positive Steps Together Programme
Location: Ayot Green
Job Description:

  • Project Governance and Due Diligence: You will be working with key stakeholders and leads to ensure the delivery of clinical and operational workstream activities, including the management of risks and mitigating actions. You will support the identification of clinical and operational issues before and during the service transfer, using this information to prioritise future service developments.
  • Workforce: With the support of the Norfolk LD HR Advisor, you will lead on workforce engagement and communication, ensuring all staff experience a smooth transition and are welcomed into the trust. You will also provide expertise to the development of the Recruitment and Retention Plan and Workforce Strategy for the service.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Mobilisation Stakeholder Communication and Engagement plan, working with local networks colleagues, service users and carers to identify future service development priorities.
  • Clinical: You will lead the review of community service functions and associated documentation ahead of transfer, including the development of the new Single Point of Access for the service.
  • Performance Management: You will maintain regular oversight of quality, safety, experience and workforce activity and Key Performance Indicators to provide internal assurance during transfer and stabilisation of the services, developing remedial actions plans as required.An exciting 12 month internal secondment opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic individual, with excellent communication and organisational skills, to join the team. As the Clinical Lead you will be working alongside the Project Manager and Heads of Service, to provide clinical / operational leadership and expertise to the Positive Steps Together mobilisation programme., Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
  • Relevant Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working as a senior healthcare clinician in a relevant field
  • Evidence on ongoing CPD activity
  • Desirable criteria
  • Project or programme management training or qualification, Experience of working as a qualified clinician within community LD services at a specialist level.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders including service users, carers and primary and social care provider
  • Evidence of building effective relationships with staff, commissioners, partners and clinical leaders.
  • Experience of representing Community LD Services within the context of multi-agency working
  • Desirable criteria
  • Project Management ExperienceHertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

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Posted: October 5th, 2026