Clinical Lead Nurse | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is looking for an experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide clinical leadership to the initial response service. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a Band 6 role and should demonstrate a commitment to supporting service development and enhancing the experience of service users. The role promotes flexible working options, encouraging a positive work-life balance, and provides an opportunity to work within a dynamic team.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Positive work/life balance

Qualifications

• Must have at least 2 years' experience in a Band 6 role.
• Experience in community Urgent Care pathway is desirable.
• Demonstrates a commitment to service development and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Supervise and teach professionals from multi-disciplinary teams.
• Work in partnership with service users and carers to ensure effective outcomes.
• Provide clinical leadership to the team to ensure high-quality care.
• Ensure effective budget management and identify cost improvements.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Team collaboration

Patient engagement

Supervision and teaching

Budget management

Education

Registered Mental Health Practitioner qualification

At least 2 years' experience as Band 6

Job description

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a forward‑thinking, highly motivated, innovative, dedicated and experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide clinical leadership to the initial response service. You will be responsible for providing leadership and ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective and supports service users and carers.

You will be able to reflect LSCFT values of being kind, respectful, working as part of a team and always learning. You should have at least 2 years' experience of working as a Band 6 and demonstrate evidence of learning teams and individuals through change. Experience of working within the community Urgent Care pathway is desirable. You should also be able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting service development. You should be able to demonstrate evidence of care that facilitates a positive culture of patient engagement, a commitment to enhance the service user and carer experience and promote an environment that facilitates continued staff professional development.

Responsibilities

• Undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Supervise and teach professionals from the multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the Team Manager in ensuring high quality care across the 7 day cycle of care.
• Provide expert clinical knowledge, expertise and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Initial Response Service (IRS) to colleagues, service users and carers.
• Work in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure that the budget is being used effectively and identify/review any cost improvements to ensure a high quality service is being delivered.

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. Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Dec 2025.