Job summary
Bring your clinical expertise to where it can make a real difference.

We are looking for a Clinical Lead to join our Intensive Rehabilitation STaRS Team on a full-time basis.

STaRS is a specialist recovery service supporting adults with some of the most complex mental health needs. This is an exciting opportunity to provide clinical leadership within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, shaping care, driving innovation, and delivering outstanding outcomes for service users.

As Clinical Lead, you will:

• Provide expert clinical leadership, supervision, and consultation.
• Lead on complex assessments, formulations, and interventions.
• Champion evidence-based, trauma-informed, recovery-focused practice.
• Drive clinical governance, quality improvement, and service development.
• Influence and inspire excellence across the team.

We're looking for someone with:

• Advanced skills in working with complex mental health presentations.
• Experience of leading and supervising multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong clinical decision-making, risk management, and safeguarding expertise.
• A passion for innovation, reflective practice, and continuous improvement.

What we offer:

• A supportive, values-driven team environment.
• Opportunities to shape services and clinical pathways.
• Protected time for supervision, CPD, and leadership development.

Ready to lead, influence, and make a lasting impact? We'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
As the Clinical Lead, you will work alongside the Team Manager, under the supervision of the Service Manager. The team consists of registered and unregistered clinicians and administrative staff, for whom you will provide day to day support.

The role will involve using your advanced clinical and leadership skills to provide recovery focused clinical support and advice to the MDT, working with complex cases and providing specialist supervision to colleagues within the team.

You will work closely with your peers across the community mental health provision, to identify challenges and ways to address them. You will be responsible for supporting the development of clinical pathways and ensuring high quality of care through the use of appropriate audit and review of patient feedback.

The successful candidate will:

• Provide direct clinical care
• Provide clinical leadership
• Work with Trust clinical systems
• Utilise specialist skills and develop new ones
• Provide seamless care transitions
• Put the patient at the centre of everything they do

About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Details
Date posted: 05 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 338-8188482-26
Job locations: Townend Court, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU68QR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility
• Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Desirable

• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced/expert level
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.
• Prepared to undertake or hold a recognised non-medical prescribing qualification, if required

Experience
Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning

Desirable

• A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced/expert level
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing

Skills & Competencies
Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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

Employer details
Employer name: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Townend Court, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU68QR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Team Manager
Jenny Harrington
jenny.harrington@nhs.net
01482336786

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.