Clinical Team Leader | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool

Integrated Community Re-enablement and Assessment Service (ICRAS) is a multidisciplinary team that works together to manage the care of people in the community, requiring urgent support and those at risk of imminent hospital admission, as well as those transitioning from an acute environment who require additional support.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for additional Team Lead positions to join our existing workforce as we move forward implementing a new model. We are looking for candidates with Nursing backgrounds to join our service. The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service in the city wide area.

The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to a team. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
• Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
• Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
• Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
• Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
• Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patient/client care.
• Ensure that teams work proactively to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
• Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
• Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
• Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in various forums and professional groups.
• Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules to ensure business continuity.
• Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
• Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex clinical care.
• Follow holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
• Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
• Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
• Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
• Provide induction to the local working environment and policies for new team members and students.
• Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
• Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members have up to date PDPs.
• Ensure that all staff attend mandatory training.
• Participate in audits and research as required.
• Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
• Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
• Identify skills deficits within the team and address these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
• Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues as necessary.
• Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
• Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, participating in meetings and communicating outcomes to staff.

This advert closes on Monday 31 Aug 2026.