Clinical Team Leader: Sponsorship Available

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you energetic, motivated and want to lead
a busy MDT. We seek a Team Lead to join the North Home Treatment Team which
provides a responsive assessment and home treatment service to those
experiencing mental health crisis.

HT provides intensive care to patients and are
looking for individuals who have leadership skills that encompass urgent mental
health care and can lead and encourage our clinicians to provide the best care
possible to our patients

HT is integral in providing a specialist
service, comprehensive assessment, treatment and care. We work collaboratively
with service users, carers and professionals offering interventions on an
alternative to hospital admission basis.

We support
early discharge from inpatient wards through intensive, time limited
intervention in the community. HT also supports primary care through screening/assessment
of urgent GP referrals. Positive risk management is vital in this role.

Main duties of the job

To clinically and operationally lead a large,
skilled and experienced clinical team within the Urgent Care Pathway.

To manage a defined caseload of patients
experiencing an acute mental health episode.

To support the team to identify early facilitated
discharges from inpatient wards and work alongside the NMHT to prevention
admissions, caring for people in their homes, following the least restrictive
approach.

To assist in identifying, developing and
providing a multidisciplinary approach within the service in accordance with
the needs of service users and the requirements of the service.

A strong focus on operational responsibilities
including (but not limited to) workforce management, governance adherence,
supervision, appraisals, recruitment and retention

Supporting the education and development of
our clinicians to ensure we continue to provide the most effective and evidence-based
care as possible, in line with patients needs.

To contribute to the planning and
implementation of induction, training and education of students and new staff.

You
will actively participate in the development of the service and participate in
the overall development of the service ensuring the principles of Clinical
Governance underpin all developments.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
  • Role modelling good behaviour.
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
  • Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in
  • English in both verbal and written formats.
  • Clinical / practice abilities.
  • Ability to prioritise workload.
  • Creative flexible approaches to risk assessment.

Experience

Essential

  • Three years post-registration experience 2 years at a senior level in Adult Acute mental health.
  • Experience of working with severe and enduring mental illness.
  • Management and leadership in a multidisciplinary environment.
  • Budget management.
  • IT literate.
  • CRT experience.

Desirable

  • Psychosocial interventions.
  • Use of clinical assessments.
  • First aid training.
  • Leadership.
  • CRHT experience.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of relapse prevention.
  • Leadership, Management and change management.
  • Broad knowledge of risk assessments.
  • IT literate.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness and relapse prevention.

Qualifications

Essential

  • A current professional qualification (RMN, RMNH).
  • Demonstrate management in a multi-disciplinary team setting.
  • Evidence of post qualification training / studies.
  • Teaching and assessing qualification.
  • Supervision Training.
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable

  • Qualification in Health Care at a degree level or equivalent.
  • Teaching/Assessing Qualification.
  • Non-medical prescribing.

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).

Closing Date: 2 September 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.