Clinical Lead | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 20 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2026 |
| Location: | Ramsgate, CT12 6NT |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7823572/380-EK399-A |
Summary
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trustare delighted to be recruiting for a Lead Clinician position within our Early Intervention in Psychosis Services in Thanet.
This position will be part of the senior clinical leadership team, providing evidence-based, high-quality care to the population we serve.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated clinician with suitable leadership experience. The successful candidate will provide day-to-day clinical oversight of the team to ensure delivery of a safe and effective service.
The post-holder will work closely with the operational team manager and other clinical leads to drive performance and achieve consistently high standards of care.
The post-holder will hold clinical cases as required and support other members of the team with the most complex and risky patients.
Overall the role will entail working within the leadership team to ensure robust oversight of all aspects of care delivery. The post-holder will:
• Act as a role model to support/guide the team deliver high quality standards of care, be responsive to service demands and dynamic in supporting the team with complex and challenging situations.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, work well within the leadership team to prioritise daily clinical demands / needs of service, whilst supporting the clinical team.
• Provide clinical advice and supervision (both individual and group supervision) and contribute to individuals appraisals.
• Provide in house training to team and wider teams/services when needed.
• Support and embed clinical standards within the team.
• Lead/support and contributing to monitoring team’s clinical performance via clinical audits and work in conjunction with Team Manger to support actions to improve the quality and performance of the service and outcomes for services users
• Show excellent organisational, time management and delegation skills to work in an area of changing priorities.
• Be a cohesive member of the Leadership Team, work flexibly and support the Team Manager where needed, offer expertise and experience to develop new staff and support in retention and wellbeing of the team.
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Mar 2026
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