Clinical lead CAMHS ND/LD | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS FT; Stalybridge; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead CAMHS ND/LD to provide clinical leadership and expert guidance for two community CAMHS teams in Tameside and Stockport. The role includes supporting staff with complex neurodiversity and learning disability cases, guiding risk management, and developing cross-service pathways.

You will steer high-quality assessments, supervise clinical teams, and contribute to service improvements while maintaining a small complex caseload as needed,

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership experience in CAMHS and ND/LD settings.
• Experience guiding complex cases and supporting staff in risk assessment.
• Ability to develop and maintain clinical pathways between CAMHS and other services.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and supervision to CAMHS teams.
• Lead on risk assessment, risk management and incident debriefs.
• Offer guidance on relevant legislation affecting CAMHS practice.
• Develop and maintain effective clinical pathways between CAMHS and partner services.
• Lead on and ensure thorough assessments and ongoing interventions as lead case manager.
• Provide guidance and support to staff managing complex clinical cases.
• Work as an integral part of CAMHS with a small complex caseload.
• Participate in extended working hours as required by service needs.
• Ensure safe, timely discharge and effective transitions in CAMHS.

Job description

Clinical lead CAMHS ND/LD | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting new post created to offer clinical leadership and expertise to 2 community CAMHS teams in Tameside and Stockport. The post involves offering expertise in working with children and young people presenting to CAMHS with a moderate to severe mental health need and other complexity around neurodiversity and or a Learning disability .

To provide guidance and support to clinical staff in the management of complex cases.

To provide guidance and support on relevant legislation.

To be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways between CAMHS and other services.

To provide additional leadership and guidance to other team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving and lead on debriefs following incidents.

Develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues.

To take a lead role in the provision of clinical leadership and structured clinical supervision to the team.

To lead on and ensure that the team undertakes appropriate and in-depth assessments and on-going intervention, and undertake the duties and responsibilities of an active lead case manager role

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

To provide clinical leadership, support and supervision to clinical staff. To support an identified team of practitioners with advice and guidance on the management of complex clinical case.

• To work as an integral part of the CAMHS Service which will include carrying a small complex caseload.
• To participate in the extended working hours as required by the needs of the service
• To provide clinical leadership and structured clinical supervision to the team.

Maintain consistency and quality of care for all service users under the care of CAMHS and support effective and timely discharge.

Support safe ,efficient and effective high quality transitions in and out of CAMHS.

Ensure the team works in a collaborative manner with other agencies and partnerships across the service.

To ensure that clinical standards are, monitored and evaluated, and ensure both they and the team provide care of the highest quality to patients

To be a visible and pro-active clinical leader and role model within the teams

This advert closes on Monday 26 Oct 2026