Job summary
Development Opportunity:Are you an experienced clinician with a passion for leadership and service development? Do you want to shape high-quality care for individuals affected by substance misuse? We are seeking a Clinical Lead to provide expert leadership and clinical oversight within our Drug and Alcohol Services across Staffordshire. This pivotal role ensures safe, effective, and evidence-based care for clients with complex needs, including those prescribed opioid substitution therapy (OST). If so, this is an exciting opportunity to join our team.
Why Join Us?Be part of a well-established, supportive team with a strong reputation.Opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives.Access to ongoing professional development and career progression.Work in a service committed to innovation and excellence.
Main duties of the job
What You'll Do
- Provide clinical leadership and oversight across the service.Ensure compliance with NICE guidance, national standards, and local protocols.
- Support prescribers and multidisciplinary teams in managing complex cases.
- Lead on safeguarding, risk management, and clinical audits.
- Drive service improvement initiatives and contribute to strategic planning.
- Working closely with the senior leadership team and multi-agency partners to achieve outstanding outcomes.
- Offer supervision and mentorship to clinical and non-clinical staff.
What We're Looking For
- Registered professional (NMC, HCPC, or equivalent) with relevant clinical experience.
- Strong understanding of substance misuse treatment, harm reduction, and recovery models.
- Proven leadership skills and experience in clinical governance.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Ability to manage risk and lead service development initiatives.
About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description for full list of responsibilities, including:
- Responsibility for the operational and clinical management of community services.
- Lead on recruitment, selection and interviewing of clinical staff.To be responsible for the development of effective clinical provision and lead on team building.
- Provide formal, on-going clinical supervision and caseload management supervision.
- Attend Inclusion meetings when requested
- Lead on clinical interventions and work within financial budgets.
- Oversee the incidents and SI reporting in the services and to ensure investigations are carried out in a timely manner
- Work alongside the Head of Quality and Performance for Inclusion in ensuring lessons are learnt and shared across Inclusion
- Work within Inclusions Clinical Governance and operational framework ensuring compliance with the clinical strategy, SOPs and structures.
- Carry out appraisals (Individual Performance Review)
- Participate in the formulation and implementation of protocols and procedures for the delivery of any new integrated services.
- Responsible for ensuring audits are done within the Inclusion Audit framework
- Ensure systems are in place to respond promptly, appropriately and in an open manner to complaints and queries
- The ability to work flexibly across the county to meet the needs to the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job description for full list of responsibilities, including:
- Responsibility for the operational and clinical management of community services.
- Lead on recruitment, selection and interviewing of clinical staff.To be responsible for the development of effective clinical provision and lead on team building.
- Provide formal, on-going clinical supervision and caseload management supervision.
- Attend Inclusion meetings when requested
- Lead on clinical interventions and work within financial budgets.
- Oversee the incidents and SI reporting in the services and to ensure investigations are carried out in a timely manner
- Work alongside the Head of Quality and Performance for Inclusion in ensuring lessons are learnt and shared across Inclusion
- Work within Inclusions Clinical Governance and operational framework ensuring compliance with the clinical strategy, SOPs and structures.
- Carry out appraisals (Individual Performance Review)
- Participate in the formulation and implementation of protocols and procedures for the delivery of any new integrated services.
- Responsible for ensuring audits are done within the Inclusion Audit framework
- Ensure systems are in place to respond promptly, appropriately and in an open manner to complaints and queries
- The ability to work flexibly across the county to meet the needs to the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification in Mental Health, Nursing, - and/or significant experience of managing services in Substance Misuse and be qualified as a non-medial prescriber
- Possess a Leadership Qualification.
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualification.
- Relevant Post Graduate Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with clients with Mental Health / Substance misuse problems.
- Extensive experience of managing a related service and delivering a high quality service which delivers on outcomes
- Providing effective supervision and line management of staff.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and delivering group work.
- A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction & recovery approaches to working with drug users.
- Knowledge of substance misuse within a community setting-
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification in Mental Health, Nursing, - and/or significant experience of managing services in Substance Misuse and be qualified as a non-medial prescriber
- Possess a Leadership Qualification.
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualification.
- Relevant Post Graduate Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with clients with Mental Health / Substance misuse problems.
- Extensive experience of managing a related service and delivering a high quality service which delivers on outcomes
- Providing effective supervision and line management of staff.
Desirable
- Experience of developing and delivering group work.
- A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction & recovery approaches to working with drug users.
- Knowledge of substance misuse within a community setting-
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
