Role Overview
The post holder will be responsible for clinical leadership of the Adapt Team, providing effective leadership for a multi‑disciplinary clinical team and ensuring the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.
The post holder will be expected to lead and manage a multi‑professional team of staff, provide supervision, mentorship and leadership, and maintain a high‑quality service within the resources available.
Responsibilities
* Manage referrals, assessment and treatment within the Adapt Service.
* Perform performance monitoring and management of the team.
* Provide line management and supervision of staff.
* Develop and maintain a culture of effective risk management.
* Participate in recruitment and selection of staff, leading on decisions as designated by the Locality Manager.
* Respond to serious untoward incidents and support subsequent investigations.
* Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts.
* Ensure relevant forums within clinical teams for the dissemination and embedding of learning points from complaints and serious untoward incidents.
* Ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the team’s business.
* Promote and display support for the Trust’s key policies on Equality and Diversity and the recovery‑oriented approach for people with longer‑term problems.
* Develop and review job plans that reflect service needs and are adjusted to meet the demands of the service.
* Ensure the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy.
* Investigate complaints fully within the time limits, ensuring a proactive approach in accordance with trust policies.
* Maintain the Trust’s reputation and that of senior colleagues by supporting a positive attitude and strong commitment to results.
* Work with other team leads to ensure the locality provides a seamless service.
* Develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety.
* Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times.
* Effectively manage the risk of infection, ensuring related policies are fully complied with and communicated in the team.
* Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce, engaging staff in the delivery of all performance targets on behalf of the Trust.
* Develop and maintain professional standards and compliance with mandatory training requirements.
* Communicate regularly through team meetings, briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members, providing an opportunity for two‑way feedback.
* Respond to serious untoward incidents and Safeguarding Adult alerts promptly and appropriately.
* Ensure that the team has a structure of clinical governance that maintains clinical records and documentation to the agreed compliance standard for the Trust.
Qualifications
* Considerable experience in mental health assessment, management and clinical risk.
* Good understanding and a high level of competence with therapeutic skills, being responsive and flexible in working with adult and young people transitioning from CAMHS.
* Experience leading the overall clinical pathways of the Adapt Service and supporting the team and locality manager to ensure quality and timely service delivery.
* Experience in developing, implementing and maintaining systems and processes for risk management and training.
Company Overview
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings, including district nursing, speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector. We have over 4,300 staff working in hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes across more than 125 sites in the South of England, including London, Kent, Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
This advert closes on Sunday 25 Jan 2026.
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