Clinical Director - Dementia and Older Persons Mental Health Team

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Bodmin; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Cornwall is seeking a Clinical Director for Dementia and Older Persons Mental Health Team. This vital role involves providing strategic leadership, driving innovative change in mental health services, and collaborating closely with healthcare teams. Ideal candidates will possess robust leadership skills, medical qualifications, and a commitment to enhancing patient care. The position offers excellent career development prospects and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Benefits

Supportive and dynamic work environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit and evidence-based practice.
• Understanding of healthcare delivery and modernisation strategies.
• Ability to present complex information effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for directorate performance.
• Deliver proactive clinical leadership across professional boundaries.
• Champion co-production with service users and carers.

Skills

Knowledge of NHS structure and values

Leadership skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Education

Medical Qualification and GMC registration

Leadership and management qualification

Further study to doctorate level

Job description

Go back Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Director - Dementia and Older Persons Mental Health Team

The closing date is 19 January 2026

Shape the Future of Mental Health Care in Cornwall

Are you a passionate, forward-thinking Consultant, SAS Doctor or Senior Non-Medical Clinician ready to make a lasting impact? Join Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a key leader within our Older Adults Mental Health Team.

About the Role

In this influential position, you will:

• Collaborate closely with the Associate Medical Director for Mental Health, quadrumvirate teams, and operational managers
• Drive innovation and lead transformative change across mental health services
• Align service development with our clinical strategy and workforce plans

Your leadership will help shape the future of mental health care for older adults in Cornwall.

What We Offer

• A strategic leadership role with real impact
• Opportunities to lead ground breaking initiatives that improve patient care
• A supportive, dynamic environment that values your expertise and amplifies your voice
• Excellent career development prospects within a forward-thinking organisation

Main duties of the job

As Clinical Director for Dementia and Older Persons Mental Health, you will:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of directorate performance across quality, operational, and financial domains, working collaboratively with the quadrumvirate leadership team.
• Engage and empower the medical workforce, delegating key responsibilities and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Deliver visible, proactive clinical leadership across professional boundaries, promoting collaboration and integrated care.
• Communicate effectively and compassionately, ensuring staff feel supported and valued.
• Champion co-production by working with service users and carers to shape and transform services.
• Align clinical services with integrated care models, building team confidence and embedding services within integrated neighbourhood teams.
• Ensure robust governance, including regular appraisals, essential skills training, and agreed job plans for all medical staff to meet service needs.
• Provide expert clinical advice and assurance as part of the Trust's senior leadership team, escalating concerns appropriately and communicating mitigating actions to the Executive Team.

About us

We are a NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

Job responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see supporting documents.

Person Specification

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the National Health Service and its inter-relationship with other agencies
• Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda
• Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, Research and Development and evidence based practice
• Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government strategy and plans for modernising health care

Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience

• Degree level professional qualification with relevant professional registration, i.e. GMC, NMC, HCPC
• Further study and professional development to doctorate level or equivalent experience
• Relevant leadership and management qualification or equivalent experience
• Medical Qualification and appropriate Royal College membership or fellowship
• Full GMC registration

Knowledge and abilities

• Ability to adapt communication style to the audience, recognising barriers to understanding or acceptance
• Highly effective leadership skills.
• Interpersonal and influencing skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• High analytical and numeracy skills
• High level of self-awareness and openness to self-improvement
• Insight into strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to present complex information in an appropriate format for understanding, based on the audience
• Ability to quickly assimilate, interpret and analyse highly complex information relating to organisational and service issues and make recommendations for action.
• Environmental and political awareness.
• Strong financial management skills
• High quality business and service planning skills.
• Good information technology skills

Personal Qualities

• Inspires others and leads by example. Able to make rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Capacity to work with managers and others to develop a shared vision of services for patients and standards in delivery of services. Willingness to accept that the wider interests of the Trust and/or the health community may require compromise.
• Commitment to implementation and strengthening of clinical governance
• Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including clinicians, managers, staff, patients, relatives and users of services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust