Advanced Clinical Lead

Advanced Clinical Lead

The closing date is 12 June 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well‑established inpatient specialist dementia assessment team on Silk Ward, in the role of an Advanced Clinical Lead.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about driving high standards of care, is compassionate and committed to working within dementia care, and exhibits excellent leadership skills to support quality improvement initiatives and staff development.

Main duties of the job

• Quality improvement – demonstrate highly effective communication skills and problem‑solving abilities, implement continuous quality improvement initiatives with current best practice for dementia care, identifying learning themes and responding to this, attendance at Trust wide meetings and local Dementia Steering Group, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of clinical standards.
• Clinical expertise – work autonomously within a multi‑disciplinary framework and act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the team, support with complex cases with specialist assessment and planning of care, liaise with internal and external professionals and work collaboratively, and ensure high standards of patient care within trust guidelines and policies.
• Staff development – deliver training and support with sourcing further training/education opportunities, facilitate clinical supervision, provide coaching and mentoring to enhance the team’s skills and knowledge, motivate and inspire the team to drive high standards of patient care and create a productive work environment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• A relevant Social Work, Nursing or Allied Health Professional (e.g. Occupational Therapy) degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Current registration with a nationally recognised professional body relevant to the professional qualification held e.g. GSCC for Social workers, HPC for Occupational Therapists etc
• Minimum 5 years post registration experience
• Masters level qualification or equivalent short courses and / or experience
• Teaching qualification or significant experience

Knowledge & Expertise

• Excellent communication skills: working with staff, working with patients and carers, working with general practice, presentations, written reports, understanding and ability to interpret, research and facilitate staff to implement evidence‑based practice
• Proven ability to challenge current practices and freedom to make change in light of evidence‑based recommendations
• Knowledge, understanding and the ability to interpret and implement local and national policy direction relevant to practice
• Proven experience of clinical audit, skill and knowledge required to facilitate staff to undertake clinical audit
• Knowledge and experience of moving staff through the change management process
• Empowering staff to manage and support change
• Demonstrable effective clinical leadership with knowledge, understanding and application of leadership theories
• Relevant clinical expertise to support and facilitate clinical development and innovation
• Evidence of sound information technology skills

Experience

• Experience in the development of professional roles
• Successfully managed projects that demonstrate ability to communicate and implement change
• Demonstrable and proven understanding and experience of the clinical and corporate governance agenda
• Knowledge and experience of facilitation of reflective practice for staff and personal reflective practice
• Demonstrable ability and experience in motivating and empowering others to change roles and in leading practice development

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.

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