Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Lead to join our Mental Health Crisis Intervention and Home-Based Treatment Team. This newly created post will strengthen clinical leadership, governance and patient safety within a fast-paced crisis service.
This is a Monday to Friday role with no unsocial hours or weekend working, supporting a positive work-life balance.
The service provides intensive crisis intervention and home-based treatment, offering a safe alternative to admission and supporting care in the least restrictive environment. Care is recovery-focused, trauma informed, patient-centred and delivered through multidisciplinary, evidence-based practice.
The team also delivers the NHS 111 option 2 mental health crisis line, providing timely triage and support. The post holder will hold clinical responsibility for its safe and effective delivery, ensuring high standards of access and oversight.
Working within the senior leadership team, the post holder will provide clinical leadership across the service under the guidance of the Senior Clinical Lead.
A key focus will be clinical governance, patient safety and assurance, maintaining robust systems for oversight and continuous improvement. The role will also drive innovation and service development, while building strong partnerships with police, ambulance, VCSE and wider health and care services to ensure coordinated, patient-centred pathways.
Main duties of the job
Lead development and oversight of a robust clinical governance framework, ensuring monitoring, assurance and continuous quality improvement
Provide clinical leadership for patient safety, including incidents, risk management, serious incident review and embedding learning
Support staff in complex, high-risk decision-making, ensuring safe, consistent and evidence-based care
Promote and embed evidence-based practice in line with current guidance and best practice
Provide clinical leadership across crisis intervention, home treatment and the NHS 111 option 2 line, ensuring safe, timely and consistent triage and assessment
Maintain oversight of caseloads, patient flow, admission avoidance and discharge planning
Monitor clinical standards, audit activity and performance, ensuring compliance with local and national requirements
Lead and work within a multidisciplinary team, promoting communication, shared decision-making and holistic care
Ensure clinical pathways and interfaces are effective, coordinated and patient-centred
Contribute to multi-agency working, including safeguarding and shared risk management
Act as a visible clinical leader, providing supervision, mentorship and professional support
Promote a culture of reflective practice, accountability and continuous learning
Contribute to service development, innovation and quality improvement, enhancing patient outcomes
Champion service user and carer involvement in care and service development
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Find out more and search live jobs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please consider applying if you are eager to be part of an inspiring team and that you are both passionate and dynamic.
For further information please see attached job description and person specification before submitting your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Education and Training.
Essential
- Relevant professional qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Registered Social Worker, State Registered O/T or Psychologist.
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses.
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
Desirable
- Evidence of policy implementation and development
- Leadership/management qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to implement quality improvement programmes.
- Experience of leading change in a clinical environment.
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
Desirable
- A breadth of practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
Essential
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced/expert level
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Miranda House
Gladstone Street
Hull
HU3 2RT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
This listing was aggregated from publicly-available sources. The employer holds an A-rated sponsor licence at the time of this listing, but sponsorship of this specific role is not guaranteed — the employer's offer and UK Visas and Immigration are the final authority. Details may have changed since our last update — verify with the employer via the Apply link.