Senior Mental Health Practitioner (Lead Clinician)

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced clinician to join the CAMHS ReACH Team (Crisis Team) as Lead Clinician. The role blends clinical leadership with direct clinical work, maintaining a small caseload while supervising and guiding the multidisciplinary team.

You will ensure timely, high-quality crisis care, provide expert advice on risk and crisis management, and support service development with your leadership.

Qualifications

• Senior mental health professional with leadership experience.
• Experience in crisis care and risk assessment.
• Ability to provide supervision and develop MDT colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership within the CAMHS ReACH Team.
• Hold a small complex clinical caseload.
• Offer clinical supervision and mentoring to MDT members.
• Provide expert advice on assessment, formulation, and risk management.
• Support team delivery, quality improvements and decision making.
• Promote evidence-based practice and clinical governance.
• Contribute to service development and audits.
• Develop partnerships with senior leaders and support staff wellbeing.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Crisis Intervention

Multidisciplinary Team

Supervision

Job description

We are looking for an experienced, compassionate and dynamic clinician to join our CAMHS ReACH Team (Crisis Team) as a Lead Clinician. This is a really exciting opportunity for a senior mental health professional, who is passionate about delivering high-quality crisis care whilst supporting and developing a multi-disciplinary team.

The role is a combination of clinical leadership and direct clinical work, you would hold a small clinical caseload ensuring to remain connected to the frontline practice whilst providing leadership, supervision and clinical oversight across the service.

As a Lead Clinician, you will play a key role in ensuring that children, young people and families are experiencing a timely and effective service. You'll be working closely with the Team Manager and wider leadership team to maintain high clinical standards, promote continuous improvement and support staff to deliver outstanding care.

You'll also provide expert clinical advice, support decision making around risk and crisis management, and help shape service development. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will manage a small caseload of young people with complex presentations, offering assessment, intervention and liaison where required.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership within the team
• Hold a small complex clinical caseload
• Offer clinical supervision, mentoring and supporting members of the MDT
• Provide expert advice on assessment, formulation, risk management and crisis intervention
• Support the Team Manager with team delivery and development. Including quality improvements and decision making
• Promote evidence-based practice and ensure high standards of clinical governance
• Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Develop strong partnerships with other senior leaders in the team
• Support staff well-being, professional development and positive team culture

The service is based at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield and you’d be expected to be in base during your shifts. The service works 7 days a week, 8am-8pm and you would work on a shift basis.

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with Jen Wilson.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

While this role meets the eligibility requirements for Skilled Worker sponsorship, due to the short-term nature of the contract, the Trust will not be offering sponsorship for this post.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.