Clinical Lead / Manager

This role is to support the Primary Care Mental health team across Warrington & Halton. As one of the team managers, your role will bring together the interface working between Mersey Care and Primary Care.

This is a crucial leadership role which involves working with GP practices and local Primary Care networks to support the delivery of high quality service offered by Mersey Care staff.

To be successful you will need to be able to develop and maintain strong and supportive relationships with our primary care stakeholders and also within our own merseycare services to support the transformation work within the community mental health division.

You would be joining an established and experienced team, whose roles are evolving, you will provide clinical leadership which is compassionate and supportive as well as line management support to the nursing team.

Applicants should be well organised, with strong communication skills.

Main duties of the job

You will provide management to a primary care mental health team who hold clinics within Primary care networks, developing and delivering strong communications to support and maintain our relationships with our key stakeholders.

You will ensure the team are managed and supported effectively and compassionately and in line with trust policies.

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.

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.