Clinical Lead Nurse

Clinical Lead Nurse

The closing date is 16 December 2025

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a forward-thinking, highly motivated, innovative, dedicated and experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide clinical leadership to the initial response service. You will be responsible for providing leadership and ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective and supports service users and carers.

You will be able to reflect LSCFT values of being kind, respectful, working as part of a team and always learning. You should have at least 2 years' experience of working as a Band 6 and demonstrate evidence of learning teams & individuals through change.

Experience of working within the community Urgent Care pathway is desirable. You should also be able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting service development.

You should be able to demonstrate evidence of care that facilitates a positive culture of patient engagement, a commitment to enhance the service user and carer experience and promote an environment that facilitates continued staff professional development.

You should be able to demonstrate effective, evidence based care management, risk assessment and leadership skills. You must have the ability to positively influence and adapt to a rapidly developing service that is able to meet the needs of service users and carers.

Main duties of the job

Undertaking expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

Supervising and teaching professionals from the multi-disciplinary teams.

Working in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Providing clinical leadership and support to the Team Manager in ensuring high quality care across the 7 day cycle of care.

Provide expert clinical knowledge, expertise and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Initial response service (IRS) to colleagues, service users and carers.

To work in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure that the budget is being used effectively and identify/review any cost improvements to ensure a high quality service is being delivered.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as: term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification Education / Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC
• Post registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post graduate diploma level
• Clinical Supervision Training

Knowledge

• Significant demonstrable post qualification experience at Band 6 working in a mental health / specialist inpatient setting or equivalent.
• Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating specialist programmes of care and risk management plans.
• Evidence of successful mentoring and/or supervision of junior members of staff including students.
• Evidence of improving service delivery in line with evidence based practice.

Skills

• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage highly stressful and emotive situations.
• Ability to develop, implement and evaluate specialist programmes of care and risk management plans.

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum (subject to confirmation)