Clinical Lead Mental Health Homicide InvestigationNHS

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and credible Mental Health professional to join the Midlands Clinical Quality and Safety Governance Delivery Team as a Clinical Lead for Mental Health Homicide Independent Investigations.

This specialist role provides expert clinical advice, professional oversight and independent clinical perspective to support the delivery of statutory Mental Health Homicide Investigations across the Midlands. Working alongside senior clinical and quality leaders, you will contribute to robust investigation processes, support objective review of complex cases, and help translate learning into meaningful improvements in patient safety and quality of care.

The successful candidate will bring significant experience of working within Mental Health services, a strong understanding of patient safety, governance and investigation methodologies, and the ability to provide expert clinical challenge and insight. You will play a key role in supporting regional learning from homicide investigations, public inquiries and wider Mental Health reviews, helping to strengthen quality improvement and reduce future harm across the system.

This is an excellent opportunity to influence patient safety at a regional level and contribute to the ongoing improvement of Mental Health services across the NHS.

Main duties of the job

• Extensive clinical experience within Mental Health services.
• Expertise in patient safety, quality governance and incident investigation.
• Ability to provide objective, independent clinical scrutiny of complex cases.
• Strong communication, analytical and report-writing skills.
• Commitment to improving outcomes and reducing inequalities through shared learning and system-wide improvement.

Job description

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Please see the job advert for more specifics. If you have any queries, please contact Laura Sadler, Assistant Director Clinical Quality Governance [email protected]

About us

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.