An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated clinical leader to join our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) service in Wigan as a Clinical Lead. This is a key leadership role within our established and expanding service, providing strategic clinical leadership across the team delivering evidence-based mental health interventions to children and young people.
Working in partnership with the Operational Manager, you will be responsible for driving clinical excellence, professional leadership and service innovation. You will lead on clinical governance, safeguarding, quality improvement, workforce development and supervision, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care in line with national MHST guidance and trust priorities.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to influence the future development of children’s mental health services across Wigan, working collaboratively with schools, CAMHS, local authority partners and wider system colleagues to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.
As the Clinical Lead for the Mental Health Support Teams, you will:
- Provide visible and effective clinical leadership across all MHSTs, promoting high standards of evidence-based practice and compassionate care.
- Lead the clinical governance agenda, ensuring compliance with professional standards, safeguarding requirements, quality assurance processes and Trust policies.
- Provide clinical supervision, consultation and professional leadership to Senior Practitioners, Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs), CBT Therapists and other members of the team.
- Support staff in the assessment and management of complex clinical presentations, safeguarding concerns and clinical risk, promoting consistency and excellence in clinical decision making.
- Work in partnership with the Operational Manager to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services, contributing to service planning, workforce development and achievement of operational objectives.
- Lead and support quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, service evaluation and the use of outcome measures to continually improve patient care and service delivery.
- Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with education settings, CAMHS, primary care, local authority services, voluntary sector organisations and other system partners to support integrated care and the Whole School/College Approach to Mental Health
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world’s most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sonia Cunningham Job title: Operational Manager Email address: sonia.cunningham@gmmh.nhs.uk
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