Clinical Lead - Veterans Community Mental Health

CORNWALL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Lane End; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health provider Trust is seeking a passionate leader to enhance mental health services for Armed Forces veterans in Cornwall. This role includes providing clinical leadership, ensuring high-quality care, and implementing governance standards for veterans' mental health challenges. The ideal candidate will possess enhanced clinical skills and leadership experience, while also being dedicated to improving mental health outcomes. This position is exclusive to current NHS employees in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly, making it a unique opportunity for dedicated individuals within the organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include enhanced clinical skills and leadership experience.
• Knowledge of legal frameworks and care pathways required.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Champion high standards of clinical care for veterans.
• Implement clinical governance and risk management.
• Lead the team in assessing new patients and managing care.

Skills

Leadership experience

Enhanced clinical skills

Expertise in mental health

Job description

We are seeking a passionate leader to champion the lived experience of Armed Forces veterans across Cornwall. In this county-wide role, you will provide clinical leadership and ensure services deliver high-quality, evidence-based care for veterans experiencing mental health challenges.

• Promoting and modelling high standards of clinical care
• Ensuring holistic assessment and treatment, including physical health needs
• Providing expert advice on complex cases and safeguarding
• Maintaining clinical governance standards
• Offering training, supervision, and guidance to multidisciplinary teams

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference for those who have served. If you have enhanced clinical skills, leadership experience, and a commitment to improving veteran mental health, we'd love to hear from you.

The post holder will lead and support the team in assessing new patients, including risk assessment, care planning, and directing referrals to the most appropriate pathway or urgent care when needed. They will implement clinical governance and risk management, act as shift leader within CPE, and provide expert clinical leadership, supervision, and training to ensure consistent, high-quality mental health care in community settings. Working closely with operational leads and multidisciplinary teams, the Clinical Lead will embed trauma-informed and reablement principles, manage complex assessments, and apply holistic approaches to health and social needs. Responsibilities include signposting to statutory and non-statutory services, advising on legal frameworks, and developing effective care pathways.

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability. We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK. Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff. We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner. Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.