Clinical Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	13 November 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	13 December 2025
Location:	Liverpool, L19 2NA
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7588765/350-MHC7588765-A

Summary

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 asClinical 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:

Providestrategic clinical leadershipin your specialist area, grounded in the latest evidence-based practice and cutting-edge theory.

Deliverexpert assessment, planning, and evaluationof care for a defined group of service users, ensuring every intervention is purposeful and impactful.

Offerspecialist clinical guidanceto service users, carers, colleagues, and partner professionals—your insight will shape decisions and elevate care.

Demonstrateadvanced clinical competencein 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 driveoutcomes that matter, ensuring care is holistic, inclusive, and effective.

Experience and skills inprescribing medicationare 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 service’s 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 empathy and professionalism, using advanced communication skills to provide reassurance and negotiate effective solutions.

Communicate sensitive or complex information clearly and compassionately to staff, service users, and carers, using both verbal and non-verbal techniques to overcome barriers such as emotional distress or resistance.

Prepare verbal and written reports for internal departments and the Operational Team Manager on matters including complaints, incidents, and investigations.

Maintain expert knowledge in clinical practice, policy, and staff management to ensure consistently high standards of service delivery.

Conduct regular audits to identify and promote best practices based on robust research evidence, supporting the implementation of service improvements.

Identify and manage clinical and non-clinical risks appropriately, escalating concerns to the Operational Manager when external support is required.

Support the Operational Team Manager in managing service delivery factors such as budget, staffing, resource allocation, and service user dependency.

Manage staff absence and sickness in line with Trust policies, ensuring appropriate actions are taken at each stage.

Identify opportunities for service development and communicate these to the Operational Team Manager.

Embed high standards of service delivery and ensure Service Governance is integral to team operations. Promote staff awareness and engagement with the governance agenda.

Support the implementation of Trust policies locally, ensuring compliance and escalating any delivery challenges to the Line Manager.

Provide feedback on Trust policies to ensure team perspectives are represented.

Ensure all staff operate within the Community Mental Health Framework, including assessment, care planning, review, and audit processes.

Liaise with the Operational Team Manager regarding disciplinary or grievance matters, and take responsibility for resolution in line with the scheme of delegation.

Coordinate annual Personal Development Plans (PACE), incorporating training and development needs for all staff.

Provide timely and accurate feedback following formal meetings related to performance, sickness, or absence.

Exercise sound judgement in interpreting policies and procedures, seeking guidance when necessary, and contributing to the development of directorate protocols.

Lead investigations into incidents or complaints as directed, ensuring timely completion and clear, objective reporting of findings and recommendations.

Contribute to the development and communication of the business plan, ensuring staff are informed and involved in shaping service priorities.

Assist in budget management, including oversight of devolved Social Care budgets, and report any issues impacting financial performance.

Ensure all new staff receive a comprehensive induction, and that this is appropriately documented.


We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.


This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025