Clinical Lead

Company: National Health Service
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Location: Kettering
Job Description:

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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Posted: October 11th, 2026