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Band 7
Full-time

Clinical Lead Dudley ECMHT Older Adults

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustBrierley Hill Health and Social Care, Venture Road, Brierley Hill, DY5 1RU, United Kingdom£49,387 - £56,515Closes 15/09/2026

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Band
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
01/09/2026
Closes
15/09/2026

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Role summary

This Clinical Lead role is within the Older Adult Community Mental Health Teams, which provide assessment, treatment, and care for older adults with complex mental health difficulties, including Dementia. The post holder will collaborate with the CMHT Manager to develop and coordinate evidence-based mental health care. Key responsibilities include providing clinical leadership, supporting operational management, and delivering supervision to staff. The role also involves liaising with internal and external services to ensure coordinated care pathways.

Essential criteria

  • NMC/RMN Qualification
  • Clinical and operational managerial skills
  • Ability to form positive working relationships with staff and other agencies and other service providers
  • Expeiernce of Working with Older Adults Mental Health
  • Experience of undertaking Clinical Audits & understanding of Patient safety Agenda

Desirable criteria

  • Evidence of managing change and supporting service development
  • Evidenice of further personal training and development
  • NMC/RMN Qualification
  • Clinical and operational managerial skills
  • Ability to form positive working relationships with staff and other agencies and other service providers
  • Expeiernce of Working with Older Adults Mental Health
  • Experience of undertaking Clinical Audits & understanding of Patient safety Agenda
  • Evidence of managing change and supporting service development
  • Evidenice of further personal training and development

Useful to know

Band 7 pay context

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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Job summary

The Older Adult Community Mental Health Teams are multi-disciplinary teams that offer assessment, treatment and care to Older adults who experience complex mental health difficulties including Dementia

The Clinical Lead in collaboration with the CMHT Manager will develop and coordinate a multi-professional approach providing evidence based mental health care to all those who use the service

To support operational management, and deliver clinical leadership and supervision to designated teams of staff.

To support the on-going day-to-day management of a multi- disciplinary team. To liaise with external/internal services including primary care to ensure that services are coordinated and that pathways into and out of the service are managed effectively and efficiently.

Main duties of the job

This is a leadership role and the post holder will work closely with the Team Manager, Operational Manager and Locality Matron to achieve positive outcomes in the teams' clinical management to:

Providing day to day clinical leadership ensuring the highest standard of care is maintained

  • Identify the skill mix required for staff recruitment and support this process
  • Audit case notes and care plans against approved audit tool.
  • Support the planning, delivery and evaluation of interventions and treatments where there are complex issues.
  • Support the learning outcomes as

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