Clinical Team Leader - Learning Disabilities - £7k Incentive

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Preston is seeking a Clinical Team Leader to support their new mental health inpatient facility. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team to provide compassionate, patient-centred care. Ideal candidates will possess strong leadership and communication skills, with a commitment to high standards in clinical care. A £7k Welcome Bonus is available for newcomers.

Benefits

£7k Welcome Bonus

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have leadership experience, exceptional communication skills, and motivational skills.
• Ability to encourage teams to work across organisational boundaries.
• Strong clinical judgement and observation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and be responsible for the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Ensure clinical development of staff and student nurses.
• Take responsibility for shift coordination.
• Drive up clinical standards.

Skills

Leadership experience

Exceptional communication skills

Motivational skills

Influencing skills

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust.

Water Meadow View is a brand new mental health inpatient facility for adults who have learning disabilities, which is due to open in November 2025 on our site in Whittingham, Preston. As we prepare to open, we have an exciting opportunity for Clinical Team Leaders to join us and support the Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver 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, evidenced based care and patient experience within the care group's inpatient settings through proactive clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary staff within their clinical area of responsibility.

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

Video - Welcome to Water Meadow View

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.
• Ensuring clinical development of staff and student nurses.
• Ensuring that patients and carers are fully involved in the planning and delivery of care.
• Taking responsibility for shift coordination and leading the team in the delivery of safe, effective and quality clinical care.
• Ensuring safe and high-quality care is delivered.
• Driving up clinical standards.

*The Welcome Bonus is only available to candidates who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider Trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria (LSC) Integrated Care System (ICS) in a like-for-like role or core profession. For example, a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Occupational Therapist / Social Worker / Mental Health Nurse role at LSCft or in a role such as Mental Health Practitioner Role that requires the same profession.

These trusts are:

• University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Trust
• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses. This bonus is applicable from 1st July 2024 – 31st December 2025.

The £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:

• £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT
• £2,000 after 12 months
• £2,000 after 24 months

PLEASE NOTE: Individuals obtaining assistance through the Welcome Bonus scheme are required to sign an agreement which includes the following:

• return all of monies paid, if they do not start on the agreed date detailed within their unconditional offer
• to return all monies paid if they voluntarily leave the employment of the Trust within 6 months of commencement
• to return all monies paid if they move within the Trust from one role to another role which does not attract the welcome bonus within 6 months of commencement
• if they move to a new role that does not attract the welcome bonus after 6 months then future payments will cease

For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)

If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact [e-mail].

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

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025