Clinical Team Lead

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Clinical Team Lead to spearhead a new Intensive Community Support Programme for young people. The successful candidate will provide clinical leadership and operational oversight for a multi-disciplinary team, delivering important support for vulnerable youth. This innovative role is aimed at driving improvements in the community and working collaboratively across health and social sectors.

Benefits

Ongoing supervision and training

Opportunity to shape a no-wait service

Supportive multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications

• Leadership in mental health settings with a focus on young people.
• Substantial experience in working with vulnerable populations.
• Strong clinical supervision skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialist team delivering community-based support.
• Drive service development and quality improvement.
• Foster partnerships and collaboration across sectors.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Complex assessments

Service development

Trauma-informed care

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Professional registration (e.g., Clinical Psychologist, RMN)

Experience in CAMHS or related services

Job description

Are you an experienced and passionate clinician ready to lead a pioneering service for young people with complex needs? Do you thrive in innovative, multi-agency environments where your leadership can drive real change? We're launching a transformative Intensive Community Support Programme in Newham, and we're looking for a dynamic Clinical Team Lead to shape and lead this new model of care.

About the Role

As Clinical Team Lead, you'll lead a small, specialist team delivering flexible, therapeutic, community-based support to young people aged 13‑18 who are at risk of family or placement breakdown based within Newham Council's Edge of Care Service. This is not a traditional crisis or inpatient role; this is a unique opportunity to lead a service that offers early, intensive support in the community, tailored to the needs of young people with complex presentations.

You will be based within Newham Council's Edge of Care Service and work closely with partners across health, social care, and education to deliver high-impact interventions and reduce the need for restrictive practices.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide clinical leadership and operational oversight for the Intensive Community Support team
• Lead on complex assessments, formulations, and interventions
• Be supported by up to four staff from a range of specialisms
• Offer expert consultation, supervision, and training to professionals and care teams
• Drive service development, evaluation, and quality improvement
• Foster strong multi-agency partnerships and system-wide collaboration
• Champion inclusive, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-aware care pathways

Qualifications

• Professional registration (e.g. Clinical Psychologist, Systemic Psychotherapy, RMN, OT, Social Worker, Child Psychotherapist)
• Substantial experience in CAMHS or related services, including leadership roles
• Expertise in working with young people with complex needs, neurodiversity, and trauma
• Strong clinical supervision and service development skills
• Experience in safeguarding and risk management
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care models

Desirable

• Experience in service evaluation, audit, and quality improvement
• Knowledge of Positive Behavioural Support care models

Our Mission and Values

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Benefits

• Work in a supportive, multi-disciplinary team with strong clinical governance
• Access ongoing supervision, training, and professional development
• Help shape a service that operates without a waiting list
• Make a lasting difference in the lives of some of Newham's most vulnerable young people

Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! We offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services. We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Flexible Working

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.