Clinical Lead

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead to head the Southport CORE24 service at Southport General and Formby hospital, providing urgent mental health care and liaison to wards, including emergency assessments in A&E. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and drive service improvement.

The role requires a registered professional (RMN or OT) with post‑registration leadership experience, governance and education delivery, and a track record of developing integrated care

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience in relevant mental health services.
• Proven track record delivering teaching/ training to staff.
• Knowledge of adult safeguarding and governance.
• Experience conducting or leading audits and improving clinical standards.
• Ability to lead in a high‑demand, multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Southport CORE24 mental health service and supervise the MDT.
• Develop and monitor integrated care pathways and clinical governance.
• Oversee recruitment, induction, and professional development of staff.
• Provide clinical supervision and line management to core team.
• Ensure timely, quality care within MHA guidelines and Trust policies.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical governance

IT skills

Audit & QA

Communication

Education

RMN / Occupational Therapist

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

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Job overview

We are looking for a Clinical Lead that is committed, innovative, and has the vision and leadership skills to lead our Southport CORE24 service.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team working to ensure that Southport General and Formby hospital is supported in the effective assessment and treatment of service users with mental health issues. This will include providing responsive, emergency assessments within the A&E Department as well as mental health liaison to the wards.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about urgent mental health care, with a desire to continually improve what we do.

Main duties of the job

In this position you will play a key role in leadership and continued development of the service, working closely with the leadership team as well as developing relationships with key figures from the acute Trust. The role will include:

• Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
• Support the formulation and implementation of clinical and operational practices and procedures.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of new staff
• Assist in the management and coordination of all services delivered to the service user
• Ensure effective processes of communication are established, maintained and regularly evaluated within designated team
• Provide performance information, analysing to ensure patients are receiving timely access to services

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user referrals and models of care.

Participate in case supervision to monitor clinical standards of service user care and documentation.

Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.

Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user's personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping in accordance with professional and Trust standards.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate in the referral process, including the assessment of patients in accordance with the agreed care pathway and the completion of quality reports, where appropriate.

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as care co-ordinator, as required.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

2) MANAGERIAL

Deputise for the Operational Manager, as required.

Undertake delegated responsibilities as agreed with Operational Manager.

Support the formulation and implementation of clinical and operational practices and procedures, as appropriate.

Participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of new staff

Participate the team's emergency self-harm rota requirement based on service needs

Assist in the management and coordination of all services delivered to the service user within the clinical.

Support the implementation, monitoring and updating of an operational policy and philosophy for the clinical area

Ensure the principles of clinical governance are incorporated in service delivery in maintaining a high quality service based on agreed clinical standards

Ensure that service users are cared for within the confines of their respective Mental Health Act status and adhere to the requirements of the MHA 1983 and the corresponding Code of Practice. This may include liaison with the home office for restricted service users

Ensure adherence and implementation of Effective Care Coordination

Ensure that Trust policies and procedures are adhered to

Assist in the development of local protocols to ensure a high standard of service delivery is achieved and maintained

Support the process of staff participation in the formulation of new ideas/suggestions to improve service user care and service delivery

Provide effective leadership within the designated team

Provide statistical information as required

Assist in the maintenance and updating of the team's equipment inventories and service schedules. Ensure regular servicing, maintenance, repair or replacement, as required, adhering to Health & Safety, COSHH and Medical Devised Agency regulations

Ensure effective processes of communication are established, maintained and regularly evaluated within designated team

Assist in the investigation of complaints and incidents at team level in accordance with Trust policy

Participate in Serious Untoward Incident investigations/reviews, as required

Coordinate utilities, equipment and services and report/refer issues to respective managers, where necessary

Provide relevant staff with the necessary management supervision regarding the coordination and delegation of duties to ensure a comprehensive and consistent delivery of care is maintained

Ensure that the practice of the clinical area adheres to the Trust's policies and procedures

Participate in managerial supervision

Appropriate participation in managing performance of staff, as required

Appropriate participation in managing attendance of staff, as required

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional qualification - RMN / Occupational Therapist

Desirable criteria

• NMP Qualification
• Completed course/module research methods

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant evidence of post registration experience, in relevant service areas.
• Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups.
• Understanding of Adult safeguarding issues
• Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Evidence of audit's undertaken and outcomes.

Desirable criteria

• Experience, of presentations at local, regional, national level.
• Experience of providing supervision to others, and experience in a leadership role.
• Competent in using databases and spread sheets

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates ability and Knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians

Desirable criteria

• Evidence continued leadership development

Skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence of excellent clinical record keeping
• Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment.
• Maintained development of clinical leadership skills.
• Undertaken a leadership programme.
• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources

Desirable criteria

• Evidence continued leadership development

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.