Mental Health Clinical Lead

NHS; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Clinical Lead in Hull and East Yorkshire. This role focuses on transforming care quality, offering clinical leadership, and enhancing staff capabilities. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in mental health services and a relevant professional qualification. The position offers a competitive salary of £50,000 per annum and a supportive working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health services with complex needs.
• Experience in supervision or reflective practice.
• Ability to work in crisis mental health settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and service development.
• Support staff with psychological insights.
• Conduct client work in line with clinical practice.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Supervision and leadership skills

Trauma-informed practice knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Education

Professional qualification in Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychology, or Mental Health Nursing

Job description

Are you ready to make a real impact? As our Clinical Lead, you’ll be at the heart of transforming the quality and delivery of care across Wellington Care and Hull and East Yorkshire Mind, ensuring that all services are delivered safely, effectively, and in a psychologically informed manner.

The successful candidate will use their clinical expertise to strengthen staff capability, embed best practice, and uphold an approach that is trauma-informed, person-centred, and recovery-focused. If you’re passionate about creating lasting, meaningful change, we’d love to have you on our team.

For more information on the role and to apply, please visit https://heymind.hrpartner.io/jobs.

If you require an application pack in a different format, please contact the administration office on 01482 240200.

Important: We are currently unable to offer sponsorship. Please consider this before submitting your application.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Lead will play a central role in ensuring that staff at Wellington Care and Hull and East Yorkshire Mind are given leadership, guidance and support to ensure that all services are safe, effective and psychologically informed. You will bring clinical expertise to enhance staff capability, improve outcomes for clients, and ensure that our approach remains trauma-informed, person-centred, and recovery-focused.

Key aspects of the role involve:

• Clinical leadership and service development
• Supervision and reflective practice
• Collaboration with internal managers as well as multi-agency teams
• Governance and compliance
• Client work in line with clinical practice and registration requirements

About us

We are a force of passion and dedication, committed to making a difference to the lives of local people across Hull and East Yorkshire.

But we’re not stopping there. As the demand for our services continues to grow, we need a team that’s ready to rise to the challenge.

Joining Hull and East Yorkshire Mind means becoming part of our family. Our team is incredibly friendly, fostering a warm and welcoming environment where everyone thrives. In fact, 97% of our staff are bursting with pride to be part of our organisation.

We value diversity and inclusivity; every individual in our local community matters. Regardless of your ethnicity, gender identity or reassignment, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, we welcome your application. We actively encourage those with lived experiences of mental health to come forward and join us.

If you’re motivated, think you can bring a unique perspective and are passionate about improving the wellbeing of local people, we’d love to hear more about you.

Job responsibilities

Job title - Mental Health Clinical Lead

Location - The post holder will be based at our Head Office on Beverley Road, but will be required to travel to other sites in the Hull area.

Salary - 50,000 GBP per annum

Hours - 37 hours per week. Hours will be worked Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

Reports to - Emma Mellors Registered Manager

Key responsibilities

1. Clinical leadership and service development

Wellington Care -

• Provide psychological insight and clinical leadership, supporting staff to deliver high-quality, outcome-focused support.
• Draw on a broad understanding of psychological therapies and perspectives to guide the development of trauma-informed psychological approaches and interventions that are sensitive to the needs and experiences of service users.
• Offer advice and guidance on complex cases, risk management, and strategies for supporting clients with unmet needs.

Hull and East Yorkshire Mind -

Support crisis services (Support Line, Crisis Pad, Children’s Safe Space and Police Hub) by:

• Assisting staff with call scripting and structured responses.
• Offering clinical guidance on working with frequent users of services, with the aim of reducing repeat reliance.
• Supporting staff to de‑escalate challenging situations safely and effectively.

2. Services Development

• Contribute to service development by identifying gaps, shaping practice and embedding psychologically informed approaches.
• Support the development of internal policies, processes and practice guidance to ensure consistency and quality.
• Assist staff in applying psychological thinking to their work with clients while recognising that formal psychological formulations remain the responsibility of statutory mental health services.

3. Supervision and reflective practice

• Provide group reflective practice sessions for staff across all services.
• Deliver a level of clinical supervision to staff members, supporting safe and effective practice.
• Create a supportive learning environment where staff feel confident to share challenges and explore new approaches.

4. Collaboration, Meetings and Influence

• Attend and contribute to Multi‑Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, VARMS (Vulnerable Adult Risk Management Strategy) meetings, and other external case management forums as required.
• Work closely with service managers, team leaders and external partners to ensure continuity and consistency of care.
• Act as a clinical resource for the wider Hull and East Yorkshire Mind team, sharing expertise and promoting best practice.
• Contribute to external networks and meetings to strengthen Hull and East Yorkshire Mind’s position as a trusted provider of mental health support.

5. Governance and Compliance

• Ensure clinical practice within services meets professional, ethical and organisational standards.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of clinical activity in line with GDPR and internal policies.
• Support service monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements.

6. Client Work

• Hold a small caseload of clients to maintain clinical practice and professional registration requirements.
• Ensure this work is balanced alongside core responsibilities of clinical leadership, supervision and staff support.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive in every respect but rather to define the fundamental purpose, responsibilities and dimensions of the role.

It is the nature of the work of Hull and East Yorkshire Mind that tasks and responsibilities are, in many circumstances, unpredictable and varied. All staff are, therefore, expected to work in a flexible way when the occasion arises and when tasks not specifically covered in their job description need to be undertaken.

Please note that all jobs within the Charity are subject to the availability and continuation of external funding.

Person Specification

Experience

• 1. Significant experience of working in mental health services with individuals with complex needs
• 2. Experience of providing supervision and/or reflective practice
• 1. Experience of working in crisis or urgent care mental health settings
• 2. Experience of service development and innovation

Qualifications

• 1. Recognised professional qualification in Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, or equivalent
• 2. Current membership/registration with an appropriate professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP, HCPC, NMC)

Key Knowledge

• Strong understanding of trauma-informed and psychologically informed practice
• 1. Knowledge of contract-based service delivery and KPI requirements
• 2. Familiarity with safeguarding practice and managing risk in community settings
• 1. A commitment to the values of Hull and East Yorkshire Mind and Wellington Care
• 2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with staff, clients, and partner agencies
• 3. Ability to work flexibly and respond effectively to service demands
• 4. Able to challenge unethical behaviour in a confident and appropriate way
• 5. Able to plan and prioritise own workload and work to ensure staff and clients needs are met
• 6. Enthusiastic with a high degree of personal motivation and able to motivate others.
• 7. Able to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• 8. Able to make sound decisions quickly when necessary

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.