Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic practitioner ready to take the next step in clinical leadership? Do you have a passion for delivering outstanding care to children, young people, and their families, while supporting and inspiring colleagues? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Our CYPS Community Team in Northeast Hampshire (covering Hart & Rushmoor) is a highly supportive, friendly, and innovative service. Guided by the i-THRIVE framework, we focus on providing Getting More Help and Risk Support to children and young people. As Clinical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in shaping care delivery, ensuring high standards of practice, and fostering collaboration across the multidisciplinary team.
What we’re looking for:
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Professional registration with NMC or HCPC.
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Significant experience working with children and young people under 18.
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Strong leadership and relationship‑building skills.
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A commitment to innovation, collaboration, and delivering excellent outcomes.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Lead to provide leadership and management support within our CYPS Community Team in Northeast Hampshire. This is a dynamic and varied role, offering the opportunity to make a real impact on the delivery of care across the locality.
Key responsibilities include:
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Assist with providing overall leadership and management support to the CYPS Community Team .
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Supervising and guiding colleagues to ensure high standards of clinical practice.
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Building strong, collaborative relationships across services in Northeast Hampshire.
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Working in close partnership with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and senior leadership to deliver integrated, patient‑focused care.
- Manage a caseload of young people for assessment, interventions and supporting the Duty system.
About you:
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Proven experience in managing and supervising clinical teams.
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A collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively across services and disciplines.
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Commitment to delivering high‑quality care through partnership and innovation.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated lead to shape services, strengthen partnerships, and ensure the best outcomes for children, young people, and families in our community within a strong and well established leadership team.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey and Hampshire are beautiful counties lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Working closely with the General Manager and multidisciplinary team to develop and improve services.
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Coordinating assessment clinics and responding to urgent mental health needs.
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Providing line management, clinical supervision, advice, and consultation to colleagues.
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Liaising with agencies and services within the locality to ensure joined‑up care.
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Supporting service development in line with national standards, local priorities, and financial frameworks.
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Promoting continuous quality improvement, safeguarding, and compliance with statutory requirements.
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Maintaining a small clinical caseload of complex young people.
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Deputising for the General Manager when required.
This role requires strong skills in clinical assessment, crisis and risk management, safeguarding, and inter‑agency liaison, alongside the ability to operate with professional autonomy while working collaboratively.
Please review the job description for further details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Clinical qualification at Degree level or above in Mental Health Nursing, Social Work or Occupational Therapy
- Registration with NMC/HCPC/SWE
- Diploma level specialist training, experience, and short courses in the areas of child development, attachment or family functioning
Experience
Essential criteria
- Sound experience of working with CYP with a variety of mental health issues
- Demonstrable expertise in complex assessment of people with both mental and physical health issues
- Demonstrable ability to develop practical innovations and approaches to issues and complex problems
- Expertise and experience in supervision and supporting the growth of other staff.
- Proven ability to provide training and education regarding mental health and complex clinical topics
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Applicant requirements
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