Clinical Team Leader
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 02/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an energetic and motivated Clinical Team Leader to join the North Home Treatment Team, providing responsive assessment and home treatment to individuals experiencing mental health crises. The team offers intensive care as an alternative to hospital admission and supports early discharge from inpatient wards. The leader will guide clinicians to provide excellent care, focusing on comprehensive assessment, treatment, and collaborative work with service users and carers. The position involves operational leadership, caseload management, and supporting staff development.
Essential criteria
- 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.
- 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 criteria
- Psychosocial interventions.
- Use of clinical assessments.
- First aid training.
- Leadership.
- CRHT experience.
- Knowledge of relapse prevention.
- Leadership, Management and change management.
- Broad knowledge of risk assessments.
- IT literate.
- Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness and relapse prevention.
- 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.
- Qualification in Health Care at a degree level or equivalent.
- Teaching/Assessing Qualification.
- Non-medical prescribing.
- Skills and Abilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Psychosocial interventions.
- Use of clinical assessments.
- First aid training.
- Leadership.
- CRHT experience.
- Knowledge of relapse prevention.
- Leadership, Management and change management.
- Broad knowledge of risk assessments.
- IT literate.
- Knowledge of issues involved in the treatment of mental illness and relapse prevention.
- 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.
- Qualification in Health Care at a degree level or equivalent.
- Teaching/Assessing Qualification.
- Non-medical prescribing.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 12d ago · Closes in 4d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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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.
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