Clinical Lead - Tameside & Glossop Neighbourhood Mental Health Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing clinical leadership within the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, assessing and supporting individuals registered with a GP in the borough. The post holder will lead multidisciplinary colleagues, facilitate daily team huddles, and contribute to weekly MDT meetings. Key responsibilities include managing referrals, conducting triage, and performing biopsychosocial mental health assessments to develop care plans.
Essential criteria
- Registered professional Nursing/Social Work/Occupational therapist
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Degree or diploma in professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Completion of / Preparation for Mentorship/Practice Teacher/Fieldwork Educator qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Substantial experience as a senior practitioner in mental health services in the NHS
- Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care with complex cases
- Experience of working to objectives and meeting deadlines within a performance management framework
- Experience of providing day to day clinical leadership and operational management
- Experience of and supervising and directing the work of junior staff
- Experience of joint working with outside agencies
- Experience of working collaboratively with service users and carers as partners in care.
- Experience of managing/triaging referrals
- Experience of working in community settings
- Experience of managing budgets
- Experience of working to objectives, within a performance management framework
- Experience of service improvement and development
- Experience of change management / implementation of change
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment collaboratively and effectively across organisational boundaries
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders
- Ability to manage own emotions and those of others and negotiate and influence
- Evidence of well developed comprehensive mental health assessment and risk assessment skills
- Ability to communicate with people about difficult matters or difficult situations
- Evidence of well-developed team leadership and management skills
- Evidence of effective change management skills and ability to lead motivate and manage a group of experienced staff
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to provide education and training to different grades of professional staff both informal and by formal presentation
- Competent IT skills and the ability to produce management reports
- Experience in chairing professional meetings
- Experience and or qualification in the provision of clinical supervision to junior team members
- Experience of quality assurance and audits
- Work related circumstances
- Requirement to regularly travel round different healthcare sites
- Make sure own actions reduce risk to Health & Safety
- Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
- Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
- Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
- Working knowledge of the Community Mental Health Framework for adults and older adults and Greater Manchester Living Well handbook and model of service delivery for Neighbourhood Mental Health Team
- Knowledge of current Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act and Care Act
- Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems
- Knowledge of mental health assessment /risk management processes
- Knowledge of clients presenting with comorbidity issues and dual diagnosis / co-occurring conditions
- Understanding of how primary care networks function
- Knowledge of quality improvement methodology
- Working knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
- Knowledge of primary care systems and processes
- Educaton / Qualifications
- Registered professional Nursing/Social Work/Occupational therapist
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Degree or diploma in professional qualification
- Completion of / Preparation for Mentorship/Practice Teacher/Fieldwork Educator qualification
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Substantial experience as a senior practitioner in mental health services in the NHS
- Experience of multidisciplinary working in mental health care with complex cases
- Experience of working to objectives and meeting deadlines within a performance management framework
- Experience of providing day to day clinical leade
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
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Pennine Care NHS FT
Clinical Lead - [contact details removed] & Glossop Neighbourhood Mental Health Team
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Working as part of the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, the post holder will provide a range of interventions to assess and support the needs of people registered with a GP in the borough.
Provide leadership to a range of Pennine Care and voluntary, community, social and Faith-based Enterprises (VCSFE) colleagues and will be aligned with our existing Integrated Neighbourhood teams and Primary Care Networks, to ensure that referrals received in the Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, are effectively reviewed and signposted.
To facilitate daily team huddles and contribute to the development and operation of the weekly Neighbourhood MDT meetings.
Main duties of the job
To support the management process of referrals into the Neighbourhood Mental Health service
To provide effective triage within the MDT huddle and provide oversight of formulations and agreed plans/outcome
To contribute to signposting to alternative services, or escalation to crisis services where this is clinically indicated
To facilitate daily huddles, and provide leadership for complex cases and care planning
Be responsible for identifying specific skills and interventions required from the MDT to deliver care and support recovery
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