Band 7 Clinical Team Lead for Humber’s new 6 bedded Female High Dependency Unit (HDU)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Team Lead to head up our new Female High Dependency Unit (HDU). This is a key leadership role where you will support a skilled multidisciplinary team and play an important part in delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care to women with complex mental health needs as part of our new women’s pathway.
Our Female HDU will provide specialist care for women experiencing acute and complex mental health. The unit supports patients who require enhanced engagement, intensive therapeutic input, and a structured environment to support recovery.
We are committed to providing care that is safe, trauma-informed, and person-centred, recognising the unique needs of women within mental health services.
As Clinical Team Lead, you will be pivotal in the recruitment, selection and development of your clinical team.
As a new service, the drivers will balance a therapeutic and medical model and you will support and influence the implementation, training and delivery of this.
You will clinically and operationally lead the new HDU team.
As part of this role you will join the acute and urgent care leadership team, with access to senior and peer support from mental health inpatient services and the wider Mental Health division –unplanned care.
As part of the inpatient leadership team, there is an expectation to provide senior Band 7 duty cover on Saturdays, Sundays, and Bank Holiday Mondays across the wider unplanned adult and older adult inpatient services. This currently equates to approximately one in every 15 weekends (around four weekends per year), with time off in lieu taken during the week. This role is supported by the weekend multidisciplinary team (MDT), which provides cover for all inpatient areas to facilitate urgent MDT discussions. The service is led by the Band 7 on duty alongside an inpatient Responsible Clinician (RC) or Approved Clinician (AC), both operating on a rota basis.
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.
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For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
