Clinical Lead | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 March 2026 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL2 6NT |
| Company: | Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7780428/437-7780428 |
Summary
Are you an experienced mental health practitioner passionate about leading high‑quality care for older adults? We are looking for a motivated and skilled Clinical Lead to join our Older Adults Community Mental Health team in Bolton.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence service quality, support a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, and ensure excellent clinical outcomes for service users and their carers.
As a Clinical Lead, you will play a key role in shaping and improving the service. You will provide strong clinical leadership, expert advice and supervision, and ensure standards of practice are met across the team. You will work closely with the Clinical Team Managers and wider leadership to drive quality, safety, and service development.
You will also contribute to safeguarding practice, incident management, and ongoing learning and improvement within the service.
This role includes participation in the Wigan bronze on-call rota covering out of hours
periods overnight, at weekends and bank holidays.
The post holder will –
1. Provide clinical leadership, supervision, support and consultation to staff within older adult community services.
2. Take the lead / offer support and guidance to team members on safeguarding cases.
3. Work alongside the Clinical Team Managers to provide strong operational and quality focused leadership.
4. Implement quality improvement initiatives within the team with a focus on patient safety.
5. Complete audits to identify gaps in standards of care and devise SMART action plans to ensure
improvements are made.
6. To monitor and respond to incidents reported by staff within the service.
7. To work collaboratively with other services to ensure best outcomes for patients.
8. To provide assurance to the Senior Leadership Team that the service is maintaining expected standards of care.
9. To support the team in learning from incidents by providing reflection opportunities and facilitated learning events.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than122 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.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. Successful candidates will either have a valid DBS check with the Trust or will be required to pay for the cost of the DBS Disclosure which is £44.00, the cost of which will be deducted from first salary.
Please see attached job description and person specification
Staff benefits.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
This advert closes on Monday 2 Mar 2026