Advanced Clinical Lead | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

Advanced Clinical Lead | Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer:

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Chester, CH2 1BQ

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

01/02/2026

An exciting opportunity is now available to join the vibrant inpatient unit at Bowmere Hospital as three newly appointed Advanced Clinical Leads.

We are recruiting three people to take on these roles within our unit.

Bowmere comprises all-age Acute, Rehabilitation, PICU and Organic services.

These posts offer the chance to make a significant impact across a dynamic and forward-thinking hospital environment.

We’re looking for enthusiastic leaders who are driven to deliver outstanding patient care.

You’ll bring confident leadership, a passion for innovation and quality improvement, and a commitment to empowering and developing our staff as we continue to evolve and enhance our services.

Shortlisting for this vacancy is due to commence on 19th January and the proposed interview date is 23rd January.

To provide clinical leadership across the unit teams and management support.

Quality improvement

• Demonstrate highly effective communication skills and problem‑solving abilities, implement continuous quality improvement initiatives in line with current best practice for inpatient care, identifying learning themes and responding to this, attendance at Trust wide meetings and local Steering Groups, monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of clinical standards.

Clinical expertise

• Work autonomously within a multi‑disciplinary framework to act as a source of expertise and point of contact within the unit, supporting with complex cases by providing specialist assessment and planning of care, liaising with and collaborating with internal and external professionals, and ensuring high standards of patient care within Trust guidelines and policies.
• Delivery of training and promotion of further training/education opportunities, facilitation of clinical supervision, provision of a coaching and mentoring role to enhance the skills and knowledge of the staffing teams, motivating and inspiring the team to deliver high standards of patient care and creating a productive work environment.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person‑centred approach to everything we do.

We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date.

P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you ase download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values‑based approach in our interviews, which explores not only…