Clinical Lead - Learning Disabilities

NHS; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service in Preston seeks a Clinical Lead for their new mental health facility focusing on learning disabilities. The role involves delivering high-quality person-centred care, leading a multi-disciplinary team, and ensuring patient involvement. Candidates must be registered Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurses with leadership experience. Flexible working arrangements are encouraged.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Knowledge of current NHS developments and service delivery implications.
• Demonstrable knowledge in evidence-based assessments for complex learning disabilities.
• Advanced knowledge of learning disabilities and relevant therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care.
• Ensure safe and high-quality care is delivered through clinical leadership.
• Drive up clinical standards and ensure patient involvement in care planning.

Skills

Leadership experience

Exceptional communication skills

Motivational skills

Education

Registered Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse

RMN or RNL degree

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Lead - Learning Disabilities

The closing date is 08 October 2025

Water Meadow View is a brand new mental health inpatient facility for adults who have learning disabilities, which is due to open in Winter 2025 on our site in Whittingham, Preston. As we prepare for the opening, we have an exciting opportunity for Clinical Leads to join us and support the multi-disciplinary team to plan for the delivery of outstanding person centred care.

One of the Trust's aims is to deliver the best possible care to our patients. Water Meadow View will offer clinical excellence, support and safety, with patient-centred care at its heart.

Working with the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will lead and be responsible for the delivery of high-quality, compassionate, evidenced based care and patient experience within the care group's inpatient settings through proactive clinical leadership to staff at all levels within their clinical area of responsibility.

As a clinical lead you will have responsibility for the delivery of the models of care and have responsibility for one of 3 key areas including Reducing Restrictive Practice, Physical Health and/or Positive Behaviour Support with an overarching responsibility to support a trauma informed approach to care.

When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on the lives of people with learning disabilities by delivering person centred care in a purpose built, co-produced environment, with opportunities to for you to learn and develop throughout your career

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have leadership experience, exceptional communication skills, motivational and influencing skills, and be able to encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries whilst holding patient care at the heart of their work.

The post holder will deliver on key responsibilities within the inpatient service by:

• Being visible and leading by example
• Using clinical judgement and observations
• Clinical teaching, upskilling, and assessment of staff and student nurses
• Ensuring that patients, families and carers are fully involved in the planning and delivery of care
• Ensuring safe and high-quality care is delivered
• Driving up clinical standards

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse
• RMN or RNL degree

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current key NHS developments and policies and implications for service delivery
• Demonstrable Knowledge and skills in evidence based needs led assessments, of highly complex and co-morbid presentations of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental illness, their families and carers.
• Advanced knowledge of learning disabilities, behaviours that can present as a challenge, mental and physical health conditions, evidence based therapeutic interventions and treatments relevant to the needs of this client group.
• Good knowledge of legislation, acts and developments relevant to people with learning disabilities and mental illness within inpatient settings (MHA, MCA, Human rights act, use of force act, Care Act)
• Knowledge of discharge pathways from inpatient settings

Experience

• Experience of working within an inpatient setting
• Experience of utilising a range of assessment methods including risk assessment
• Evidence of extensive professional clinical knowledge, skill and experience in contemporary learning disability clinical practice including working within a PBS framework
• Experience of partnership working across a range of agencies and professional boundaries
• Experience of effectively working with service users and carers
• Experience of delivering clinical /professional supervision in an inpatient setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust