Clinical Lead - Psychosis Pathway

The Clinical Lead for the Psychosis Pathway is a senior clinician responsible for providing day-to-day clinical leadership across adult community mental health psychosis services. The postholder will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and high-quality care to service users and their families, while supporting staff development and driving continuous service improvement.

The role involves leading clinical decision-making, overseeing the delivery of evidence-based interventions, and maintaining strong multidisciplinary and partnership working to improve outcomes for people experiencing psychosis.

• Provide clinical leadership and direction across the psychosis pathway
• Support and develop staff through clinical supervision, guidance, and training
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based (NICE concordant) interventions
• Lead on clinical decision-making, including complex case discussions and care planning
• Oversee risk assessments, safety planning, and safeguarding practices
• Coordinate care to ensure timely, safe, and effective service delivery
• Work collaboratively with service users, families, and partner organisations
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance
• Maintain high standards of clinical record-keeping and compliance with policies
  
  

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cara Garrod Job title: Greenwich Service line manager ICMP West and East Email address: cara.garrod@nhs.net Telephone number: 0203 910 7465