Job summary
- Main area
- Thanet Early Intervention Psychosis service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-EK399-C
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- EIP Thanet-The Beacon
- Town
- Ramsgate
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead
Band 7
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
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Job overview
Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
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. 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 working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent experience
- Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 5 years relevant experience and 3 years in Community setting
- Clinical assessment of physical, psychological and social care
- Experience of working with people with psychosis
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience of working with neurodiversity
Skills
Essential criteria
- Problem solving/solution focussed
- Ability to prioritise key tasks and target intervention
- Crisis resolution and management skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge and skills in assessing risk and risk formulation
- EIP standards, policies and best practice
- Implementation of the Recovery Model and Social Inclusion
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Rodger-Smith
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07930828201
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