Band 7 Clinical Lead – Warstock Lane CMHT
Contract: Permanent | Hours: 37.5 hrs per week | Location: Warstock Lane Centre Town Birmingham | Salary: £49,387 – £56,515 per annum (pro rata) | Closing: 28/06/2026 23:59.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Lead within the Warstock CMHT. The role requires working autonomously in providing high quality assessments, reviews, treatment interventions, clinical advice and expertise to the wider MDT in supporting service users with severe and enduring mental illness. You will provide additional leadership and guidance to team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving, lead debriefs following incidents, and serve as a positive role model promoting clinical excellence.
Main duties
- Work across the Community Mental Health Team and support team managers in effective operation of the team by undertaking practice and professional lead responsibilities for specified areas of care delivery.
- Develop and maintain effective clinical pathways between CMHT and other services.
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision and educational opportunities to staff within the CMHT, thereby influencing and improving the quality of clinical practice.
- Develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues.
- Act as a clinical leader in caseload supervision and be a positive role model promoting clinical excellence.
Applicants should have relevant experience and competence in:
- Robust assessment of a range of mental health issues.
- Risk identification and management.
- Positive relationship building across a variety of stakeholder groups.
- Expert navigation of a range of support, VCSE, social and clinical services.
- Co-production at all levels.
- Experience in providing supervision to others.
Training and qualifications
- Registered professional / evidence of post registration experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Leadership qualification or training.
Knowledge and experience
- Significant leadership experience and proven track record of supervising staff.
- Evidence of improving service quality.
- Experience of working at Band 6 level or above within a CMHT setting or other specialist mental health setting.
- Experience of leading audit and/or research activity related to clinical practice.
Skills
- Good risk assessment and mitigation skills.
- Resource management – ability to develop team and individual strengths through supervision.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to teach and act as a role model for both qualified and non-qualified staff including students.
- Promotion of high-quality reflective practice.
- Ability to work within the accountability framework.
- Understanding of audit and research processes.
Equal Opportunities
Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
Compliance and recruitment
Applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Consultation costs may be deducted from salary over a period of up to 3 months, with renewal of the DBS Update Service subscription after appointment. All successful applicants will be required to complete induction and statutory training programmes.
Health and Safety
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and the Disclosure and Barring Service Nominations.
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