Clinical Lead - Positive Steps Together ProgrammeBand 8a

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Clinical Lead - Positive Steps Together Programme

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Secondment: 12 months ((possibly extending to 18 months))

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per annum, pro rata)

Job ref

367-LD&F-101671

Site

Any base in the 4 counties (Herts, Bucks, Essex and Norfolk)

Town

Division wide

Salary

£57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

09/10/2026 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

Job overview

Are you currently looking to take the next step in your career?

Do you want to develop your strategic leadership skills and to play a key role in tackling the health inequalities experienced by people with a learning disability and their families?

An exciting 12 month internal secondment opportunity has arisen for a motivated and dynamic individual, with excellent communication and organisational skills, to join the team. As the Clinical Lead you will be working alongside the Project Manager and Heads of Service, to provide clinical / operational leadership and expertise to the Positive Steps Together mobilisation programme.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• Project Governance and Due Diligence: You will be working with key stakeholders and leads to ensure the delivery of clinical and operational workstream activities, including the management of risks and mitigating actions. You will support the identification of clinical and operational issues before and during the service transfer, using this information to prioritise future service developments.
• Workforce: With the support of the Norfolk LD HR Advisor, you will lead on workforce engagement and communication, ensuring all staff experience a smooth transition and are welcomed into the trust. You will also provide expertise to the development of the Recruitment and Retention Plan and Workforce Strategy for the service.
• Stakeholder Engagement: You will contribute to the development and implementation of the Mobilisation Stakeholder Communication and Engagement plan, working with local networks colleagues, service users and carers to identify future service development priorities.
• Clinical: You will lead the review of community service functions and associated documentation ahead of transfer, including the development of the new Single Point of Access for the service.
• Performance Management: You will maintain regular oversight of quality, safety, experience and workforce activity and Key Performance Indicators to provide internal assurance during transfer and stabilisation of the services, developing remedial actions plans as required.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Interested to find out more?

For further details please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specificationQUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAININGEssential criteria

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Relevant Masters qualification or equivalent experience of working as a senior healthcare clinician in a relevant field
• Evidence on ongoing CPD activity

Desirable criteria

• Project or programme management training or qualification

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCEEssential criteria

• Experience of working as a qualified clinician within community LD services at a specialist level.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders including service users, carers and primary and social care provider
• Evidence of building effective relationships with staff, commissioners, partners and clinical leaders.
• Experience of representing Community LD Services within the context of multi-agency working

Desirable criteria

• Project Management Experience

Please note, we do not charge fees for job applications, recruitment processes, sponsorship arrangements, or employment offers. Please see the Trust careers vacancy webpage and Trac as the only authorised routes for recruitment communications, applications and verification of job offers.

Employer certification / accreditation badgesApplicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description & person specification (PDF, 280.4KB)
• Refer a Friend (PDF, 160.5KB)
• Staff Benefits (PDF, 888.5KB)
• Guidance on AI usage in job applications (PDF, 55.0KB)

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