Clinical Lead

Overview

In this Clinical Lead role you provide visible clinical and professional leadership within a multidisciplinary community mental health team. You will shape service delivery, quality and safety while supporting transformation of local services. You guide colleagues through supervision, coaching and evidence-based practice to deliver recovery-focused care for complex needs. You collaborate with senior managers to drive continuous improvement and learning, making a meaningful difference for service users and carers. This is an opportunity to influence mental health care across Kettering and Corby with a strong leadership footprint.

Pay / Benefits

• Living Wage employer
• focus on wellbeing and career development

Responsibilities

• Provide visible clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team to deliver recovery-focused care for complex needs
• Offer expert clinical advice, support staff in managing risk and complex situations
• Lead on clinical quality, governance and patient safety and ensure safeguarding and care planning standards
• Oversee day-to-day clinical operations, workload allocation and timely access to services
• Collaborate with Operational Manager and Specialist Nurse to achieve service objectives and improvements
• Monitor quality and performance indicators using systems like SystmOne, SMART, MaST and Datix
• Chair multidisciplinary meetings and provide clinical oversight for complex cases with evidence-based decisions
• Lead learning from incidents and complaints, embedding improvements in care quality
• Provide supervision, coaching and mentorship to clinicians and support staff
• Champion continuous learning, research and evidence-based practice across the team
• Support students and learners to create a high-quality placement environment
• Build partnerships with colleagues and stakeholders for integrated care
• Contribute to service transformation and new ways of working
• Involve in workforce planning, recruitment and resource management
• Be an active member of the leadership team to foster a supportive culture

Key requirements

• Band 7 leadership and management experience
• Community Mental Health Experience
• UK professional registration
• Leadership and Management Qualification
• Experience delivering clinical supervision
• Experience delivering service improvement projects

• leadership
• collaboration
• mentoring
• SystmOne
• SMART
• MaST

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