Clinical Director – Dementia and Older Persons Mental Health Team
The closing date is 13 April 2026.
Job summary
Shape the future of mental health care in Cornwall as a key leader within the Older Adults Mental Health Team. The role is suitable for a passionate, forward‑thinking Consultant, SAS Doctor or Senior Non‑Medical Clinician eager to make a lasting impact.
About the Role
In this influential position you will:
* Collaborate closely with the Associate Medical Director for Mental Health, quadrumvirate teams, and operational managers.
* Drive innovation and lead transformative change across mental health services.
* Align service development with our clinical strategy and workforce plans.
Your leadership will help shape the future of mental health care for older adults in Cornwall.
Main duties of the job
* Provide strategic leadership and oversight of directorate performance across quality, operational, and financial domains, working collaboratively with the quadrumvirate leadership team.
* Engage and empower the medical workforce, delegating key responsibilities and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
* Deliver visible, proactive clinical leadership across professional boundaries, promoting collaboration and integrated care.
* Communicate effectively and compassionately, ensuring staff feel supported and valued.
* Champion co‑production by working with service users and carers to shape and transform services.
* Align clinical services with integrated care models, building team confidence and embedding services within integrated neighbourhood teams.
* Ensure robust governance, including regular appraisals, essential skills training, and agreed job plans for all medical staff to meet service needs.
* Provide expert clinical advice and assurance as part of the Trust's senior leadership team, escalating concerns appropriately and communicating mitigating actions to the Executive Team.
Person Specification
Essential Skills
* Thorough knowledge of the structure, functions, culture and values of the NHS and its inter‑relationship with other agencies.
* Understanding of the implications for medical staff of the modernisation agenda.
* Extensive knowledge of clinical audit, Research and Development and evidence‑based practice.
Desirable Skills
* Understanding of the provision and delivery of health care services and of Government strategy and plans for modernising health care.
Education and Qualifications
Essential
* Degree level professional qualification with relevant professional registration, e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC.
* Further study and professional development to doctorate level or equivalent experience.
* Relevant leadership and management qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable
* Medical Qualification and appropriate Royal College membership or fellowship.
* Full GMC registration.
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
* Ability to adapt communication style to the audience, recognising barriers to understanding or acceptance.
* Highly effective leadership skills.
* Interpersonal and influencing skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communications.
* High analytical and numeracy skills.
* High level of self‑awareness and openness to self‑improvement.
* Insight into strengths and weaknesses.
* Ability to present complex information in an appropriate format for understanding, based on the audience.
* Ability to quickly assimilate, interpret and analyse highly complex information relating to organisational and service issues and make recommendations for action.
Desirable
* Environmental and political awareness.
* Strong financial management skills.
* High quality business and service planning skills.
* Good information technology skills.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Inspires others and leads by example. Able to make rational decisions in the face of adversity.
* Capacity to work with managers and others to develop a shared vision of services for patients and standards in delivery of services. Willingness to accept that the wider interests of the Trust and/or the health community may require compromise.
* Commitment to implementation and strengthening of clinical governance.
* Personal credibility, with the ability to quickly gain the confidence of others, including clinicians, managers, staff, patients, relatives and users of services.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Carew House
Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road
Bodmin
PL31 2QN
Employer's website
https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk/
£61,542 to £145,478 a year (pay dependent on grade of applicant)
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