Clinical Lead

Humber Youth Action Group; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Job summary

NHS Hull, East & North Yorkshire Trust seeks an experienced clinician to lead the Enhanced Mental Health Community Pathway. You will provide strategic, operational and clinical direction across adult services, balancing governance, workforce development and innovation to ensure safe, effective and recovery‑focused care.

You will collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, influence service design, and drive improvements in outcomes for people experiencing mental ill health, while promoting

Qualifications

• Registered under the NMC or HCPC.
• Postgraduate level qualification or degree with significant advanced knowledge in community mental health interventions.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation and clinical standards.
• Experience leading clinical practice change and governance in community mental health.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across adult community mental health services.
• Balance leadership, workforce development, governance, innovation and service improvement.
• Inspire teams to deliver high quality, recovery‑focussed care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Strategic planning

Governance & quality improvement

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Communication

Education

Postgraduate level qualification or degree with advanced community mental health training

NMC/HCPC registration

Tools

IT literacy

Job description

Job summary

Are you a compassionate and inspiring clinical leader ready to shape the future of community mental health care?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering and developing an innovative Mental Health Neighbourhood Model, helping transform how care is provided to local communities. Working at the forefront of community mental health transformation, you will provide clinical leadership that drives quality, innovation, and recovery-focused care across adult community mental health services.

If you are passionate about delivering outstanding clinical care, developing multidisciplinary teams, influencing service design, and improving outcomes for people experiencing mental ill health, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

About You: You are an experienced and highly credible registered mental health professional with a strong track record of clinical leadership within community mental health services. You possess excellent leadership, communication, and partnership-working skills and are passionate about improving outcomes for people experiencing mental ill health.

You thrive in collaborative environments, are committed to continuous improvement, and are motivated by the opportunity to shape and influence the future of community mental health care.

Main duties of the job

• As the Clinical Lead for the Enhanced Mental Health Community Pathway, you will provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across adult community mental health services. You will be accountable for ensuring the delivery of high-quality clinical care while supporting the ongoing transformation of services in line with local and national community mental health programmes.
• Working closely with the Operational Lead and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will balance clinical leadership, workforce development, governance, innovation, and service improvement to create services that are safe, effective, accessible, and recovery-focused.
• You will be a visible and influential leader who inspires confidence, promotes best practice, and supports teams to deliver exceptional care for the communities we serve.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further details with regards to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Registered under the NMC or HCPC
• Educated to Post Graduate Level or Degree plus significant advanced knowledge acquired through experience of community based mental health interventions and additional specialist training.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. mental health act, mental capacity Act,
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Desirable

• Teaching qualification
• Advanced clinical qualification in CBT,DBT etc / Medication Management / Advanced Practice
• Member of organisational group/network, locally/regionally/nationally
• Post-graduate/Masters level certificate
• Be on the live register of mentors if required for the service area

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of leadership and organisational development issues that have had a positive impact on service delivery
• Experience of successful clinical policy implementation and change
• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice in community mental health setting
• Evidence of professional development work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change, that impacts beyond own area of work
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the service area
• Proven leadership experience at an advanced level which has had a positive impact/created change within service delivery/practice

Desirable

• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to work across organisational boundaries, developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
• Organisational networking locally, regionally, nationally
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Good time & project management skills
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
• Sound experience/knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Standard IT skills with working knowledge of IT systems relevant to own area of work
• Frequent concentration required where the work pattern is unpredictable.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).