Clinical Lead | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2026 |
| Location: | Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7879502/351-CEN2477-CL |
Summary
This is an exciting for a band 7 Clinical Lead to join Central Home Treatment Team
The Central Home Treatment Team offer 24 hour support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.
The Central Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are achieved. The successful applicant will be dynamic and forward thinking with the ability to work as part of a Team and in partnership with local services.
There will be an expectation that the successful applicant will have the ability to work flexible shift pattern across 7 days a week, to provide clinical support, upskill and guidance to junior members of the nursing team including the completion of formal clinical supervision reviews in accordance with the Trust policy
• Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Home Treatment Team (HTT) to colleagues, service users and carers.
• To work in conjunction with the Team Manager to ensure that the budget is being used effectively and identify/ review any cost improvements to ensure a high quality service is being delivered.
• To provide leadership for the team as clinical shift leader, role includes assessment officer, facilitating daily MDT HTT meeting, leading and support discharge planning & co-ordination, providing clinical supervision for HTT practitioners, supporting F2F gatekeeping, leading on shift co-ordination.
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here:Keeping our workforce well
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026