Job Description

Northumberland and North Tyneside Psychiatric Liaison Service are delighted to be recruiting into a clinical lead post within the young person's pathway.



We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic clinician with suitable leadership and experience, who is motivated to join the collective leadership team.



The successful candidate will support to provide the day to day clinical oversight of the team to ensure that we delivery safe, effective and efficient care to service users . You will work alongside the operational and clinical leadership team across all three pathways of the universal crisis team.



The post holder will work predominately into the young person's pathway, however will provide support to the working age adult and older persons pathway if and when required. The post holder will liaise and communicate effectively with partner agencies



Overall the role will involve working within the leadership team to ensure that as a service we provide 7 day clinical lead oversight.



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.



The post holder will be required to demonstrate an excellent child and adolescent mental health and safeguarding children knowledge base.



Robust assessment and risk management skills are required to ensure safe and effective practice.



The post holder will demonstrate excellent communication skills, work well within the leadership team to prioritise daily clinical demands / needs of service, whilst supporting the clinical team.



The post holder will provide clinical advice and supervision (both individual and group supervision) and contribute to individuals appraisals.



The post holder will provide in house training to team and wider teams/services when needed and support and embed clinical standards within the team.



The post holder will 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



The post holder will require excellent organisational, time management and delegation skills to work in an area of changing priorities.



We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.



Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date :

29 th May 2025

Closing date :

12 th June 2025



We welcome your application.



For further information please get in touch via email.