Band 8a Locality Clinical Lead

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bartley Green; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Healthy Minds, part of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, invites an experienced, accredited CBT Psychotherapist to join as Locality Clinical Lead in the NHS Talking Therapies service.

The role combines direct clinical work with senior clinical leadership, supervision, and service development across the stepped care model, aiming to improve access, waiting times and governance.

Qualifications

• Accredited CBT Psychotherapist with NHS experience.
• Experience in clinical leadership and supervision.
• Ability to implement NICE compliant interventions across stepped care.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and consultation to clinicians and trainees.
• Lead clinical delivery of NICE compliant interventions.
• Support service development, workforce planning and governance.
• Ensure safe, effective and formulation-led care across the locality.

Skills

CBT Therapy

Clinical Leadership

Supervision

Consultation

Service Development

Quality Improvement

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, accredited CBT Psychotherapist to join Birmingham Healthy Minds as a Locality Clinical Lead within an NHS Talking Therapies service. This senior clinical leadership role offers the opportunity to combine direct clinical work with clinical leadership, supervision, consultation, service development and quality improvement within a large NHS Talking Therapies services in the country.

You will play a pivotal role in strengthening clinical practice across the stepped care model, providing supervision, consultation and support to clinicians, trainees and multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure safe, effective and formulation-led care. Working closely with senior clinical and operational leaders, you will contribute to the achievement of key service priorities, including reliable recovery, reliable improvement, access, waiting time standards and clinical governance requirements. The role also provides the opportunity to influence service development, workforce development and integrated care pathways through collaboration with primary care, secondary care and voluntary sector partners.

To be a part of the BHM Management Team, to provide specialist assessment and psychological therapy to patients from the BHM NHS Talking Therapies Service. To act as a locality clinical lead by strengthening the clinical delivery of NICE compliant interventions across the stepped care model in their locality, by providing supervision, consultation and support to NHS Talking Therapies clinical staff within the designated locality. Along with operational and senior clinical leads, each locality lead will be responsible for supporting local performance against Service targets within their defined geographical area, with locality leads deputising for other locality leads as required to ensure safe, effective and consistent clinical leadership together with senior service clinical leads across the wider service footprint.

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.