Clinical Lead for Mental Health | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas adult learning disability services are excited to welcome applications for the role of clinical lead for mental health. This pivotal role oversees three mental health in learning disability nursing teams across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich, including the newly created 'Mental Health In-reach' service, which offers expert learning disability nursing support to Oxleas' acute mental health wards. The clinical lead will also hold a small complex case load within the Bromley community learning disability team.

• Providing high quality specialist nursing intervention and leadership, at a local team level, to meet the mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities, living in Bromley.
• Overseeing mental health in learning disability nursing practice at a service wide level, across the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
• Supporting the development of effective pathways and strategies, relevant to mental health in learning disability nursing, across all three boroughs.
• Supervising the senior community learning disability nurses in each of the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) teams, across the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
• Supervising the clinical nurse specialist for mental health, within the mental health in-reach service.

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
• Be an autonomous practitioner, able to assess, interpret clinical findings, develop a clinical formulation and implement a treatment plan.
• Provide clinical expertise, leadership, supervision and support across the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) nursing pathways.
• Manage a local caseload, within the Bromley MHinLD team.
• Review and lead on quality improvement initiatives/audits.
• Attend the directorate Clinical Effectiveness Group, updating on clinical leadership developments within the MHinLD nursing pathway.
• Analyse and manage highly complex changing health and social care situations.
• Prioritise referrals/unscheduled calls at short notice due to sudden changes in clinical presentation, or social care requirements.
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary/multi-agency communication to ensure the highest quality of risk assessment and care planning, and/or review.
• To ensure key performance Indicators and quality information is maintained and produced.

This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Jun 2026

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