Clinical LeadNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Lead to join our Mental Health Crisis Intervention and Home-Based Treatment Team. This newly created post will strengthen clinical leadership, governance and patient safety within a fast-paced crisis service.

This is a Monday to Friday role with no unsocial hours or weekend working, supporting a positive work-life balance.

The service provides intensive crisis intervention and home-based treatment, offering a safe alternative to admission and supporting care in the least restrictive environment. Care is recovery-focused, trauma informed, patient-centred and delivered through multidisciplinary, evidence-based practice.

The team also delivers the NHS 111 option 2 mental health crisis line, providing timely triage and support. The post holder will hold clinical responsibility for its safe and effective delivery, ensuring high standards of access and oversight.

Working within the senior leadership team, the post holder will provide clinical leadership across the service under the guidance of the Senior Clinical Lead.

A key focus will be clinical governance, patient safety and assurance, maintaining robust systems for oversight and continuous improvement. The role will also drive innovation and service development, while building strong partnerships with police, ambulance, VCSE and wider health and care services to ensure coordinated, patient-centred pathways.

Main duties of the job

• Lead development and oversight of a robust clinical governance framework, ensuring monitoring, assurance and continuous quality improvement
• Provide clinical leadership for patient safety, including incidents, risk management, serious incident review and embedding learning
• Support staff in complex, high-risk decision-making, ensuring safe, consistent and evidence-based care
• Promote and embed evidence-based practice in line with current guidance and best practice
• Provide clinical leadership across crisis intervention, home treatment and the NHS 111 option 2 line, ensuring safe, timely and consistent triage and assessment
• Maintain oversight of caseloads, patient flow, admission avoidance and discharge planning
• Monitor clinical standards, audit activity and performance, ensuring compliance with local and national requirements
• Lead and work within a multidisciplinary team, promoting communication, shared decision-making and holistic care
• Ensure clinical pathways and interfaces are effective, coordinated and patient-centred
• Contribute to multi-agency working, including safeguarding and shared risk management
• Act as a visible clinical leader, providing supervision, mentorship and professional support
• Promote a culture of reflective practice, accountability and continuous learning
• Contribute to service development, innovation and quality improvement, enhancing patient outcomes
• Champion service user and carer involvement in care and service development

Job description

Please consider applying if you are eager to be part of an inspiring team and that you are both passionate and dynamic.

For further information please see attached job description and person specification before submitting your application.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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