Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Team Leader - Mental Health Acute Ward
The closing date is 18 November 2026

Job summary
Are you looking to work for a team that will make you feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? We are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking for a new challenge to take on the role of Clinical Team Leader.

As a Clinical Team Leader you will form an integral part of the MDT and be responsible for supporting the Ward manager to lead a dedicated team of registered and unregistered staff by having an active role in developing, monitoring and maintaining care standards; through role modelling, clear decision making and demonstrating your highly developed clinical skills.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details.

• Key responsibilities include running ward shifts and ensuring appropriate staffing levels, providing clinical and managerial supervision to nurses and HCAs, assisting with managerial tasks such as interviewing, roster management.
• Regular nursing tasks such as engaging in therapeutic interactions with service users, medication administration.
• Helping to maintain high ward standards, including regular auditing, incident investigation, and opportunities for quality improvement projects.

Why join our wards?
We are committed to empowering our service users and to allow our staff more time to do what they love; NURSING .

We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, within the hospital setting. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across the unit, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

About us
You will be offered;

• Shift work that can support you to have a healthier work-life balance.
• Great transportation links that will make your commute easier.
• Commitment to develop you as a practitioner as evidenced by current staff progressing to Band 7 positions and others being supported to complete their Nursing Advocate and Advanced Clinical Practitioner training.
• Opportunities to shadow our other services at St Charles such as HTT, FRT, HBPoS and speciality inpatient services.
• Regular supervision and career mapping including development programmes.
• Participation in case-formulation and specialist, psychology-led training sessions.
• The chance to work with a strong, forward-thinking and innovative service that will allow you to flourish as a practitioner and do what you do best, nursing.
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

Details
Date posted: 11 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year pa inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-J-KC-0999
Job locations: Amazon Ward, St Charles Mental Health Hospital, Exmoor Street, London, W10 6DZ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities

• Key responsibilities include running ward shifts and ensuring appropriate staffing levels, providing clinical and managerial supervision to nurses and HCAs, assisting with managerial tasks such as interviewing, roster management.
• Regular nursing tasks such as engaging in therapeutic interactions with service users, medication administration.
• Helping to maintain high ward standards, including regular auditing, incident investigation, and opportunities for quality improvement projects.

Please note that this role requires successful candidates to be able to engage in Therapeutic Management of Violence and Aggression (TMVA) training, including the use of force techniques. This is because of the high-acuity nature of the ward environment and the need to ensure the safety of both patients and staff. The role is conditional upon candidates being able to engage in TMVA training during the course of their employment whilst undertaking this role.

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered NMC nurse in Mental Health
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable

• Practice assessor/ supervisor training completed, completion of preceptorship
• Completion of medication competency assessment

Experience
Essential

• Extensive experience working as a Band 5 nurse in Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services

Skills and knowledge
Essential

• Communication: Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team
• Supervise others in the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience

Desirable

• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence, healthroster
• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential

• Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
• Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current 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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Amazon Ward, St Charles Mental Health Hospital, Exmoor Street, London, W10 6DZ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Ward manager Mustapha Jallow mustapha.jallow@nhs.net

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