Clinical Team Leader; Social Work​/Allied Health Professionals​/Nursing

Job Overview

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is proud to deliver Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs) across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR), providing early intervention and preventative mental health support within education settings.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Clinical Team Leader (Band 7) to provide operational and clinical leadership across our MHST service in:

• Melton & Rutland Locality
• City South & West Locality

This is a pivotal senior role within a growing, nationally recognised early intervention programme. You will lead large, skill‑mixed teams delivering evidence‑based interventions to children and young people (CYP) with mild to moderate mental health needs, while shaping service delivery across education and community systems.

This role will suit a confident and resilient leader with significant experience of:

• Managing large, complex and multi‑disciplinary teams
• Providing high‑quality clinical supervision
• Delivering against KPIs and quality standards
• Using and interpreting data to drive service improvement
• Managing stakeholder relationships across systems
• Implementing and embedding change

We welcome your application if you are passionate about early intervention, thrive in fast‑paced environments, and are motivated by improving outcomes for children and young people at a population level.

A full UK driving licence and access to a car during working hours is essential.

The LLR MHST service forms part of the national programme, commissioned following the 2017 Green Paper:
Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision.

• Delivers evidence‑based early intervention for CYP with mild to moderate mental health difficulties
• Embeds a Whole School Approach to emotional wellbeing
• Works collaboratively with education settings, families and wider system partners
• Contributes to prevention, early identification and reduced escalation into specialist services

As the programme continues to expand, this is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in shaping the future of early intervention across the local system.

The service operates all year‑round Monday‑Friday, 9am‑5pm (excluding bank holidays), with some flexible working arrangements.

As Clinical Team Leader, you will provide both operational and clinical leadership, ensuring the safe, effective and high‑quality delivery of MHST interventions.

• Day‑to‑day management of large, skill‑mixed teams
• Performance oversight against KPIs and quality schedules
• Monitoring, interpreting and utilising service data to drive improvement
• Workforce planning, caseload oversight and risk management
• Leading service development and continuous improvement initiatives

• Providing robust clinical supervision and professional guidance
• Maintaining high standards of clinical governance and safeguarding
• Holding a reduced but complex clinical caseload, including mental health assessments
• Supporting staff development, capability and resilience

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with education leaders and system partners
• Supporting the delivery of the Whole School Approach
• Contributing to integrated pathway development across services
• Leading participation and co‑production with children, young people and families

You will work closely with Service Managers, Clinical Leads and senior colleagues to ensure delivery of an effective, efficient and high‑quality early intervention service.

• Significant experience of operational management within mental health or CYP services
• Experience supervising and developing clinicians
• Strong analytical skills and confidence in producing and interpreting performance data
• Evidence of implementing and embedding service change
• Experience of report writing and presenting information to stakeholders
• Resilience, adaptability and sound professional judgement
• A proven track record of building and sustaining high‑performing teams

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