Clinical Lead

Nhs-1; Worksop; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Worksop is recruiting a Clinical Lead (Band 7) to join the OPCU community services at the Queens Building. The role involves clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality assessments, and supervision of the multidisciplinary team.

You will drive service development, lead on pathway implementation, attend MDT meetings, manage high-risk cases, and work across Trust sites with a focus on older adults' mental health.

Qualifications

• Professional Nursing/Clinical Qualification at degree level or equivalent.
• Maintains professional registration with appropriate professional body.
• Non-Medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Responsibilities

• Develop evidence-based practice within the service and drive continuous improvement.
• Provide and oversee clinical supervision and support the multidisciplinary team to ensure high quality, safe patient-centred care.
• Lead on clinical pathway development and service transformation to support pathways and clinical effectiveness.
• Monitor and evaluate skill mix within the team and lead on recruitment and performance monitoring.
• Ensure high standards of care with collaboration across the MDT and line management responsibilities.

Education

Professional Nursing/Clinical Qualification to degree level or equivalent

Maintains professional registration with appropriate professional body

Non-Medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Job description

Employer Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Queens Building Town Worksop Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 23:59

Clinical Lead

Band 7

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinician to join our dynamic, well established OPCU community services as a Clinical Lead. We are recruiting for a full time Clinical Lead for Bassetlaw Integrated team (Based at the Queens Building)

The post holder will support robust clinical management of complex cases within both services, working with all members of the team, attending weekly MDT meetings and complex case reviews. The Clinical Lead is expected to be comfortable in managing cases with associated high levels of risk and to support the clinicians with management of challenging cases

The post holder will lead and contribute to the clinical development of the CMHT/IHTT service, leading on clinical transformation and the evolution of pathway interventions across the community mental health team

The successful candidates will be able to offer the teams high quality case supervision and training, ensuring consistent high-quality assessments and interventions for our service users

Main duties of the job

The post holder will participate in developing evidence-based practice within the service. It is expected that the Clinical Lead will drive best practice and continuous improvement including embedding new and innovative practices

The post holder will have excellent management and leadership skills and advanced knowledge of older adults’ mental health problems

Working in collaboration with the Team Leader & ACP, the post holder will be responsible for leading, monitoring and evaluating the clinical practice of the team driving towards clinical excellence.

The post holder will provide and oversee clinical supervision and support the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe patient centred care and provide senior clinical leadership within the service.

To provide a highly specialised level of assessment for a diverse patient group, which may involve the initiation of interventions, including prescribing medication. This group of patients will present with significant mental health needs which may also include complex emotional needs.

This role will include complex case management within the CMHT including assessment & management of high risk cases.

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will need to have excellent managerial and leadership skills with a good understanding of older people’s mental health. They will also; provide specialist skills to assess patient’s needs, analyse and develop treatment plans within a multidisciplinary framework.

The post-holder will receive clinical supervision and work under expert leadership of the ACP within the team. Promote clinical excellence in line with local and national guidance whilst working within the parameters of Trust policy & procedure.

The post holder will be expected to support service transformation by leading on service change, chair pathway workstream meetings, support and coproduce task and finish groups.

Promote service change by championing and leading clinical service transformation.

Lead on clinical pathway development inclusive of delivery of training for the clinical pathways in which clinical leads will be assigned across the pathways to support pathway delivery, clinical effectiveness and planning.

Provide and have oversight of clinical supervision, appraisal and clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team and contribute to ongoing service development.

Work in partnership with the team leader and administrative lead to contribute to performance and activity monitoring and to contribute to recruitment

Must have a current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or equivalent professional body.

Be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the skill mix within the team and areas for development. Have a good understanding of national and local policies and procedures informing the evidence base for clinical care.

The post-holder will work alongside the care coordinator and have oversight of complex clinical cases within the team.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person specification

Contractual Requirements

• Ability to work to meet the needs to the service (including occasional unsocial hours and bank holidays)

Physical Requirements

• Able to undertake training in the management of violence reduction
• Has the physical ability to perform the full range of nursing duties/Clinical duties

Values

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Training

• Willingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery.
• The ability to deal with and resolve conflict

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
• Advanced knowledge of physical health problems in the older adult

Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional

• Professional Nursing/Clinical Qualification to degree level or equivalent.
• Maintains professional registration with appropriate professional body.
• Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area or other formal training.
• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration
• Non-Medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Experience

• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Specialist and area specific experience.
• Advanced knowledge of medication for the older adult with mental health issues
• Awareness of national and local issues impacting of nursing care
• Experience of clinical / managerial leadership within an MDT and own approach to management

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good written/oral communication skills
• Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
• Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care.
• Clinical supervision skills

Additional Information

• We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants.
• The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
• For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.