Clinical Director | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Director will provide strong clinical leadership across the collaborative working closely with the Clinical Director for Transformation and the Programme Director. The role willpromote the development of clinical practice across NCEL CAMHS, ensuring safe and effective practice, systems of clinical involvement and provide assurance of quality to the ELFT and NCEL CAMHS Provider Collaborative governance system. The post holder will need to be creative and flexible as you will participate in the future development of the Provider Collaborative.

The NCEL PC has a clinical team supporting decision making about admissions to in-patient and day services and to Home Treatment Teams. The team also maintain quality oversight following admissions and work to facilitate appropriate discharge plans and community engagement.Clinical Director will support high quality decision making, maintaining clinical flow and ensuring young people receive the most appropriate service for their needs. The post holder will provide senior medical advice to the clinical team and support clinical escalation processes when necessary. Working with the Head of Quality you will ensure the effective operation of the Clinical team, help develop new partnerships, pathways and service models.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Clinical Director will work alongside the Clinical Director for Transformation in delivering the clinical strategy and improvement plans for the development of quality across the NCEL CAMHS Provider Collaborative. This includes fostering strong relationships with stakeholders and providers to support development of clinical practice across NCEL CAMHS, promote clinical quality and development of clinical pathways in line with the service user set aims of the collaborative.

The post holder will lead the Clinical Leadership Group(CLG) and sub-groups, working with clinical colleagues from across the collaborative to standardise practice and reduce variation where clinically beneficial.

This advert closes on Friday 31 Jul 2026