An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated clinical leader to join our Mental Health Support Team (MHST) service in Wigan as a Clinical Lead

This is a key leadership role within our established and expanding service, providing strategic clinical leadership across the team delivering evidence-based mental health interventions to children and young people.

Role Overview

Working in partnership with the Operational Manager, you will be responsible for driving clinical excellence, professional leadership and service innovation. You will lead on clinical governance, safeguarding, quality improvement, workforce development and supervision, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care in line with national MHST guidance and trust priorities.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to influence the future development of children’s mental health services across Wigan, working collaboratively with schools, CAMHS, local authority partners and wider system colleagues to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Responsibilities

As the Clinical Lead for the Mental Health Support Teams, you will:

• Provide visible and effective clinical leadership across all MHSTs, promoting high standards of evidence-based practice and compassionate care.
• Lead the clinical governance agenda, ensuring compliance with professional standards, safeguarding requirements, quality assurance processes and Trust policies.
• Provide clinical supervision, consultation and professional leadership to Senior Practitioners, Educational Mental Health Practitioners (EMHPs), Children’s Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs), CBT Therapists and other members of the team.
• Support staff in the assessment and management of complex clinical presentations, safeguarding concerns and clinical risk, promoting consistency and excellence in clinical decision making.
• Work in partnership with the Operational Manager to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services, contributing to service planning, workforce development and achievement of operational objectives.
• Lead and support quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, service evaluation and the use of outcome measures to continually improve patient care and service delivery.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with education settings, CAMHS, primary care, local authority services, voluntary sector organisations and other system partners to support integrated care and the Whole School/College Approach to Mental Health