Clinical Team Leader - Long Covid Services | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced registered clinician to undertake a band 7 Clinical Team Leader role in the St Helens & Knowsley Long COVID Service, however some flexibility may be required to working across the Merseycare footprint. A multi-disciplinary team that provides input to residents across the St Helens & Knowsley borough who are suffering the effects of long COVID.

The postholder would be required to provide leadership and management across the two teams and provide support to both the teams and the senior leadership team., At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Role will include:

- Following of H.R / finance procedures/policy

- Returning audits.

working closely with Governance

- Engaging in SLT meetings across the service line as appropriate

- Leadership and management of a team

The post holder would have demonstrable post registration/qualification
experience, experience of management and clinical leadership, experience of successful multiagency work.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, professional role modelling, mentorship, supervision, education and clinical expertise as an independent and interdependent practitioner, developing and leading relationships within the service.
Duties of the role will include providing clinical support and supervision to the team, in addition to gathering information on the service to report up to the Senior Leadership Team.

If you are highly motivated, have a passion for making a real difference and can rise to the challenge of becoming an effective member of an established team, then we would like to hear from you.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.