Clinical Lead

Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Macclesfield; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership is seeking a Band 6 Clinical Lead for Mulberry Ward in Macclesfield, a modern acute mental health unit. The role focuses on clinical leadership, supervision, and service development within an established team to maintain high standards of patient care.

You will deputise for the Ward Manager as needed and lead on audits, risk management, and MDT collaboration to deliver holistic care and continuous service improvement in a supportive NHS environment.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with knowledge of supervision and audit processes.
• Experience leading a ward leadership team to support the Ward Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership within the ward team and deputise for the Ward Manager.
• Undertake audit of evidence-based interventions to ensure best practice.
• Engage with MDT to ensure holistic patient-centred care planning.
• Assess, evaluate and advise staff on care planning and discharge planning.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in identification and management of risk.
• Develop ways to improve efficiency and patient care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Audit and supervision

Risk assessment

Staff development

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

We are looking for a Band 6 Clinical Lead to join our established team in our modern acute mental health ward in Macclesfield.

Mulberry Ward is a 26-bed mixed gender ward providing specialist mental health inpatient assessment and treatment.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse with a passion for acute mental health care, development of services and systems, and knowledge of supervision and audit processes. The ideal applicant will also have a good understanding of the leadership style required to be part of a ward leadership team to support the Ward Manager in delivering a high-quality mental health service.

The role will involve working within set objectives which reflect the direction of the service and the Trust, providing clinical leadership within the ward team to promote a high standard of patient care, and providing management support, deputising for the Ward Manager in their absence.

• Source of expertise for clinical practice for the care team. Able to demonstrate, through personal skills and achievement, a high level of patient care, using processes such as role modelling and supervision.
• To undertake audit of evidence-based interventions to ensure continued best practice.
• Engage with MDT to ensure holistic patient centred care planning.
• Able to assess, evaluate and advise staff on care planning and discharge planning.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills in the identification and management of risk.
• Develop ways to improve efficiency and patient care.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stephanie Dean Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01625 712032