Clinical Lead

Kent PLC; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent and Medway NHS Trust is offering a Senior Clinical Lead (Band 8b) within the CREST team based at Maidstone TV Studios. The post leads clinical leadership, assessment, and evidence-based interventions for children and young people in mental health crisis, ensuring NICE-concordant care and strong multi-agency partnerships across Kent and Medway.

You will supervise, manage high-risk cases to prevent hospital admissions and support timely acute discharge, travelling between trust sites as

Qualifications

• Doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent for psychotherapists.
• Significant experience in mental health services, preferably child and adolescent.
• Membership with professional bodies (NMC, HCPC, BABCP, BPC or UKCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical lead responsibilities for the service and deputise in the team manager's absence.
• Oversee caseload of assessments and interventions; share expertise to build team knowledge.
• Work with complex mental health presentations in children and young people and their networks.
• Attend organisational meetings to represent the local team and identify training needs.
• Provide regular clinical supervision and support trainees where appropriate.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Risk assessment

Supervision

Team collaboration

Education

Doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology

Professional registration (NMC/HCPC/BABCP/BPC/UKCP)

Job description

As Senior Clinical Lead (Band 8b) within the CREST team, you will provide expert clinical leadership, assessment, and evidence-based interventions for children and young people in mental health crisis. Working with the Integrated Team Manager and Strategic Clinical Lead, you will ensure high-quality, NICE-concordant care, deliver robust clinical supervision, and lead high-risk cases to prevent hospital admissions and support timely acute discharge. Based at Maidstone TV Studios, you will foster strong multi-agency partnerships across Kent and Medway.,

• You will have clinical lead responsibilities for the service, and work in collaboration with the team manager to run a safe and effective service. In the team managers absence you will deputise as the most senior member of the team.
• Oversee caseload of assessments, individual and group interventions; and share your clinical expertise with the team to build their knowledge and skills.
• You will be able to work confidently with complex mental health presentations expierenced by children and young people, and be able to work with the personal and professional network that is important to that young person.
• There is an expectation that you will attend organisational meetings to represent the local team, contributing to the delivery of evidence based interventions and identifying training needs of the clinical team.
• You will offer regular clinical supervision to the team; and may be asked to support the development of trainees in other areas where they require clinical supervision that is within your own professional competence. The successful candidate will hold a doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology, or equivalent for psychotherapists, have significant experience of working within mental health services (ideally children and young people's services), and have membership with relevant organisation such as NMC, HCPC, BABCP, BPC or UKCP.

This position will involve travelling between different trust sites. Therefore, the post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD. Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve. Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident. Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.