Clinical Team Leader

Job summary
Clinical Team Leader - The Lookout Hopewood Hospital

The lookout hospital in Sherwood is a bespoke specialist service for young people, co-located with CAMHs community team and perinatal services.

Pegasus Ward has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Nurse to join our established Multi-Disciplinary Teams

Pegasus Ward is a 12 bedded specialist eating disorder ward for young people aged between 12-18. We work with young people with a diagnosis of an eating disorder to re-establish normal eating and work with families to empower continued recovery at home.

Our team leaders have a key clinical role within a well established multidisciplinary team. Approximately half of shifts will take on the senior nurse on site role and responsibility for managing staffing, acuity and referrals in to service as well as other key clinical and operational issues. You will need to demonstrate that you have experience of working with people with mental health problems and eating disorders and supporting carers /families in a therapeutic environment. You should have a working knowledge of the management of safeguarding processes, have excellent communication and leadership skills & be willing to work across a 24 hour/7 day rota across all 3 wards on a rotational basis

See attached job description for further details.

Main duties of the job

• Provide visible clinical leadership, ensuring safe, therapeutic, recovery-focused care.
• Act as a role model for trauma-informed practice, risk management, and professional standards.
• Maintain oversight of care plans, risk assessments, observation levels, and clinical interventions, including the management of high-risk behaviours and safeguarding concerns.
• Act as Senior Nurse on Site (SNOS), holding clinical and operational responsibility during allocated shifts.
• Lead and coordinate the ward/site, ensuring safe staffing, appropriate skill mix, and effective patient flow.
• Act as the key decision-maker for escalation of clinical risk, incidents, safeguarding, and emergencies.
• Provide leadership during high-acuity situations and ensure effective handovers and continuity of care.
• Liaise with on-call medical staff, managers, site teams, and external services as required.
• Lead and support the nursing team in day-to-day practice, providing supervision, guidance, and support.
• Promote staff wellbeing, reflective practice, and professional development.
• Support ward operations including admissions, transfers, leave, and discharges, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance with policy.
• Maintain oversight of risk, safety, governance, and quality improvement, and contribute to MDT working, family communication, service development, and staff training.

About us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Details

• Date posted: 26 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 186-973-26-MH

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities) to degree level or equivalent
• Essential: Maintains current registration with the NMC
• Essential: Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area or other formal training
• Desirable: Demonstration of continued professional development to maintain professional registration

Experience

• Essential: Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding
• Essential: Specialist and area specific experience
• Desirable: The ability to deal with and resolve conflict

Knowledge

• Essential: Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
• Essential: Knowledge of nursing 6 c's
• Desirable: Awareness of national and local issues impacting nursing care
• Desirable: Knowledge of management theories

Skills

• Essential: Ability to work as part of a team
• Essential: Good written/oral communication skills
• Essential: Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
• Essential: Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
• Essential: Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care.
• Essential: Clinical supervision skills
• Essential: IT skills

Values and behaviours

• Essential: All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• Essential: All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role.

Physical requirements

• Essential: Has the ability to perform the full range of nursing duties
• Essential: Able to undertake training in the management of violence reduction

Training

• Essential: Willingness to undertake new clinical practices, education and training that will enhance service delivery

Contractual requirements

• Essential: Ability to work to meet the needs to the service (including unsocial hours and bank holidays)

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.

Employer details
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Hopewood, Foster Drive, Nottingham, NG5 3FL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/

Contact
Ward Manager: Jessica Guy, jessica.guy@nottshc.nhs.uk, 01159529480