B7 Clinical Lead - Brief Interventions

Transformation Unit; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Clinical Lead for the Brief Interventions service in the Mole Valley area. The role focuses on clinical leadership, supervision of staff, and development of pathways for adults with mental health needs in the community.

The post requires full driving licence, NHS DBS checks, and registration with NMC/HCPC/SWE, with extensive band 6+ experience. It offers permanent, full-time hours and a salary in the bands quoted.

Qualifications

• NMC/HCPC/SWE registration is required.
• Significant experience at band 6 or higher.
• Full driving licence with access to a vehicle for community visits.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervisory/consultation role for staff within the service line.
• Develop and maintain effective clinical pathways within the service line and wider community team.
• Support safe, efficient, and high-quality transitions in and out of the service line.
• Monitor productivity and delivery of KPIs and assist with reporting.
• Lead clinical leadership and caseload supervision within the service line.
• Foster collaboration with partners and include lived experience at the core of the role.
• Ensure effective communication between all disciplines and GP practices.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Team supervision

Education

NMC/HCPC/SWE registration

Job description

Main area Neighbourhood Mental Health Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am -5pm) Job ref 325-8178402-COMM

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site 18 Mole Business Park Town Leatherhead Salary £51,657 - £58,785 per annum Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata. Salary period Yearly Closing 15/10/2026 23:59

B7 Clinical Lead - Brief Interventions

NHS AfC: Band 7

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

The Mole Valley Neighbourhood Mental Health Team has an exciting new opportunity for a Clinical Lead (NMC, HCPC-OT, SWE). This is a new post to the service and we will be developing the role over time as the successful applicant embeds into the Service. This is an ideal role for a nurse who is experienced and passionate about providing clinical leadership and patient care to service users .The service is for service users over 18 years old.

This involves being part of a multi- disciplinary team providing the clinical leadership and clinical supervision of staff including VCSE employed colleagues working within the Brief Interventions service line. There will also be an expectation that the successful applicant will also carry a very small case of complex cases.

The candidate must have a full and valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes due to the community element of this role. This will include working from GP practices

Main duties of the job

Be part of the community neighbourhood (INT) leadership team and provide a supervisory/consultation role for staff both within the service line and INT when required.

To be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways within the service line and wider community INT team.

Support safe, efficient and effective high-quality transitions in and out of the service line.

To closely monitor productivity and delivery of KPIs within the service line, supporting the team manager with reporting and activity focused work, when required.

To take a lead role in the provision of clinical leadership and caseload supervision within the service line acting as a positive role model in promoting clinical excellence.

To be proactive in developing collaborative working relationships with partners embedding working with people with Lived experience at the core of the role.

Ensure that effective communication systems exist between all disciplines within the team and between GP Practices and partner agencies.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.

Person specification

Education

• Membership of a professional body: (NMC, HCPC, SWE)

Experience

• Significant experience working at band 6 or higher.
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post registration/post graduate specialist training, experience and/or short courses, CPD or equivalent

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.