Job summary
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Clinical Practice Lead to join our Homeless Mental Health team, Exeter on a fixed term / secondment basis for 6 months.

The Clinical Practice Lead will provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to multidisciplinary teams, championing high standards of care and driving improvements in clinical practice.

This pivotal role focuses on delivering safe, effective, and person-centred care for service users, particularly those with complex mental health needs.

You will lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical standards and protocols, promote evidence-based interventions and new models of care, and play a key part in service design and delivery by engaging with service users, carers, and partner organisations. Additionally, you will support clinicians through supervision, mentoring, and coaching, facilitating learning opportunities to foster professional development and reflective practice.

Working collaboratively with service managers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals, you will contribute to integrated care, risk management, safeguarding, and continuous quality improvement.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to multidisciplinary teams within Homeless mental health services.
• Promote and maintain high standards of clinical practice, ensuring care is safe, effective, and aligned with current evidence and guidelines.
• Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical practice standards and protocols.
• Support clinicians in delivering person-centred, recovery-focused care to individuals with complex mental health needs.
• Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and coaching to staff to support professional development and reflective practice.
• Identify training and development needs within the team and facilitate learning opportunities.
• Monitor clinical outcomes, quality indicators, and service performance, implementing improvement initiatives where required.
• Lead or contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and service evaluations.
• Ensure compliance with professional, regulatory, and organisational standards and policies.
• Work collaboratively with service managers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals to support integrated care delivery.
• Contribute to risk management, safeguarding processes, and incident review to improve safety and learning.

About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.

Qualifications
Essential

• A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development Leadership or quality improvement qualification

Desirable

• Management qualification Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff

Knowledge & Skills
Essential

• Knowledge of key areas of professional mental health practice Specialist knowledge of mental health disorders Knowledge of clinical risk assessment Sufficient clinical and operational knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems. Management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service. Ability to be mobile across a geographical area

Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health Risk assessment/management Experience of working in a senior or advanced clinical role

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).