Clinical Lead, Healthcare

Exciting Leadership Opportunity - Clinical Lead at Moss House CMHT

Are you ready to take the next step in your clinical career and make a real impact in community mental health? Moss House Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is thrilled to offer a rewarding opportunity for a passionate and experienced professional to join us as Clinical Lead
.

Moss House CMHT delivers vital care to adults facing severe and complex mental health challenges. As Clinical Lead, you'll be at the forefront of shaping high-quality, person-centred care. You'll play a key role in:

Conducting comprehensive assessments and crafting tailored treatment plans

Leading the delivery of outstanding clinical interventions

Driving excellence across the team and ensuring care standards remain consistently high

Supporting the service in achieving key performance indicators and continuous improvement

This is more than a job--it's a chance to lead, inspire, and contribute to meaningful change in the lives of those we serve.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

Provide strategic clinical leadership in your specialist area, grounded in the latest evidence-based practice and cutting-edge theory.

Deliver expert assessment, planning, and evaluation of care for a defined group of service users, ensuring every intervention is purposeful and impactful.

Offer specialist clinical guidance to service users, carers, colleagues, and partner professionals--your insight will shape decisions and elevate care.

Demonstrate advanced clinical competence in navigating complex decision-making, managing high-level clinical needs, and leading within your area of expertise.

Collaborate closely with service users, carers, and external agencies to drive outcomes that matter
, ensuring care is holistic, inclusive, and effective.

Experience and skills in prescribing medication are highly desirable and will enhance your ability to deliver comprehensive, responsive care.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Key Responsibilities and Leadership Duties: Provide strategic and professional leadership to the teams, aligned with the services philosophy and values. Act as a role model by demonstrating current knowledge of mental health and physical health needs, while continuously developing professional expertise and maintaining strong professional networks.

Champion the mental and physical well‑being of service users by ensuring their health promotion, psychological, rehabilitative, and educational needs are proactively addressed.

Lead and coordinate the activities of the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), ensuring comprehensive, person-centred care is delivered in accordance with Trust and local policies and procedures.

Actively engage service users and carers in the development and evaluation of services, ensuring their voices inform high standards of care delivery.

Ensure care plans are developed in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, tailored to meet the assessed needs of each individual.

Serve as a key point of contact for service users and families, responding to concerns with…