Mental Health Clinical Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an excellent fixed-term opportunity for a registered healthcare professional to lead a mental health team within a prison setting. The role involves coordinating and leading team functioning, managing staff, overseeing quality mental health care, and managing a small patient caseload. The successful candidate will contribute to promoting health and well-being for patients in prison and supporting their resettlement.
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.
- Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
- Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
- Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience
- Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.
- Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
- Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies
- Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care
- Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
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.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Clinical Lead
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?
This is an excellent opportunity for a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to undertake a fixed-term opportunity as our Mental Health Clinical Lead to cover maternity leave.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient's future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:
- To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
- Performance monitoring and management incl
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