Clinical Lead

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced mental health professional to join Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 7 CAMHS Clinical Lead within Children and Young People's Intensive Mental Health Services (CYPIMHS). The role is focused on providing clinical leadership, operational oversight, and expert decision-making within the CAMHS Crisis and Intensive Home Treatment Team (CCIHT) and CAMHS Paediatric In-Reach Service.

Working alongside fellow Clinical Leads, the Modern Matron, and the Service Manager, you will support the delivery of high-quality, safe, and effective care for children and young people with complex, high-risk, and escalating mental health needs. You will play a key role in service development, clinical governance, workforce development, and quality improvement across CYPIMHS.

This post forms part of a compressed-hours Clinical Lead team delivering a seven-day leadership model. As part of a shared weekend and bank holiday rota, you will undertake the Duty Lead Clinician role across CYPIMHS, providing leadership and clinical oversight across CCIHT, CAMHS Paediatric In-Reach, Inspire CAMHS Inpatient Services, and the Eating Disorder Intensive Treatment Team (EDITT).

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership, consultation and decision-making support for children and young people with complex, high-risk or escalating mental health needs.
• Lead and coordinate care across services, pathways and agencies, ensuring effective communication, continuity of care and safe patient flow.
• Support admission avoidance, discharge planning, repatriation and transition arrangements across the acute CAMHS pathway.
• Represent CAMHS within multi-agency forums, including safeguarding processes, Dynamic Support Registers (DSRs) and Care, Education and Treatment Reviews (CETRs).
• Work collaboratively with the Modern Matron to support clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement and service development initiatives.
• Provide supervision, mentorship and professional support to the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in the shared weekend and bank holiday Duty Lead Clinician rota, acting as the Clinical Lead on Duty across CYPIMHS services and providing escalation support, operational leadership and oversight of risk and service pressures.

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.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Education and Training

Essential

• Relevant professional qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Registered Social Worker, State Registered O/T or Psychologist.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/trainees.

Desirable

• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Demonstrate experience of teaching/facilitating/delivering education/assessing/developing others
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice

Desirable

• A breadth of practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

Skills, Competencies and personal qualities

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change

Person Specification
Qualifications, Education and Training

Essential

• Relevant professional qualification i.e., Registered Nurse, Registered Social Worker, State Registered O/T or Psychologist.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students/trainees.

Desirable

• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Demonstrate experience of teaching/facilitating/delivering education/assessing/developing others
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice

Desirable

• A breadth of practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

Skills, Competencies and personal qualities

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change

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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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 .

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. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address

The Walker Street Centre

Walker Street

Hull

HU3 2HE

United Kingdom

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