Job summary

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist looking for your next leadership opportunity? We are seeking an inspiring and motivated Clinical Manager to lead our Enhanced Primary Care Team, delivering high-quality, recovery-focused mental health care across our Primary Care Network.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine clinical expertise with team leadership. You will provide day-to-day operational and clinical management, supporting staff to deliver safe, effective and compassionate care while ensuring service users experience timely access to the right support. You will oversee caseload management, supervise clinicians, lead multidisciplinary meetings, manage complex and high-risk cases, and champion continuous quality improvement.

Working closely with primary care, community mental health services and partner organisations, you will promote collaborative working, personalised care and positive risk management. You will play a key role in service development, staff wellbeing, compliance, audit activity and maintaining high clinical standards.

We are looking for a professionally registered clinician with significant post-qualification experience, strong leadership skills and a passion for developing people and services. In return, we offer a supportive working environment, professional development opportunities and the chance to make a real difference to the lives of people experiencing mental ill health.

Main duties of the job

The Enhanced Primary Care Team Clinical Manager is responsible for providing clinical and operational leadership to practitioners within the PCNs, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and recovery-focused care. The post holder oversees the day-to-day management of the service. They lead multidisciplinary and business meetings, support service delivery and ensure compliance with Trust policies and quality standards.

Key responsibilities include supervising, developing and supporting clinical staff, providing expert guidance on complex and high-risk cases, and ensuring robust risk assessment, safeguarding and care planning processes are in place. The role promotes a positive culture of learning, accountability and continuous improvement while supporting staff wellbeing and professional development.

The Clinical Manager works collaboratively with PCNs, CMHTs, local authorities and VCSE partners to ensure integrated care and positive outcomes for service users. They contribute to service development, audit, research and quality improvement initiatives, using performance data to improve service effectiveness and maintain compliance with CQC standards.

The post holder will champion recovery, personalised care and positive risk management, while deputising for the Access & Primary Care Services Manager as required. Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills are essential to ensure high-quality care and effective service delivery across multiple sites.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence