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Clinical Lead | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,008 - £56,908 per annum (inc. of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 November 2025 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 5BX |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7564661/371-MHS898 |
Summary
The Slough Community Mental Health Service are seeking a Clinical Lead Sector to join our team.
If you have experience of leading teams, are highly organised, able to prioritise, have experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team, able to maintain a professional approach when working through operational challenges, we need you!
This position is full time, permanent, working onsite four days a week and one day from home at New Horizons Slough.
The post is open to a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker.
• The post holder will lead a flexible,holistic approachto service users with a severe and enduring mental illness.
• The role will be to lead the team on aday-to-daybasis in a supervisory role andbe responsible forstaff supervision and ongoing development.
• The role will include reporting back to senior management on service deficits and where successes are met.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for this role:
• Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Occupational Therapist/ Social Worker
• Experience in a leadership role
• Recent and relevant experience in an adult mental health setting.
• Excellent Risk Assessment skills and understanding of triangulation of risks
• Able to work onsite four days a week and one day from home at New Horizons Slough.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Paula Brown on paula.brown@berkshire.nhs.uk or Baljit.gill@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Nov 2025
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