Integrated Clinical Manager | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£57,528 - £64,750 per annum plus HCA
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Epping, CM16 6TN
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	21 Jul 2026
Closing date:	20 Aug 2026

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated leader to undertake a 12-month fixed-term contract or secondment as a Clinical Manager within West Essex Community Mental Health Services.

The post holder will play a key leadership role in supporting service transformation and the continued development of integrated community mental health services across West Essex Primary Care Networks (PCNs). Working closely with senior leaders, clinicians, partner agencies, service users and carers, the Clinical Manager will provide professional, operational and clinical leadership to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care.

The post holder will be responsible for leading the day-to-day clinical and operational management of community mental health services, ensuring delivery against performance standards, quality objectives, workforce requirements and financial targets. Responsibilities will include operational leadership, service improvement, workforce planning, clinical governance, budget management and the delivery of key Trust and system priorities.

The role provides an excellent development opportunity for individuals wishing to broaden their leadership experience and gain exposure to strategic service transformation, system partnership working and senior operational management within mental health services.

• Deliver the service model for the West Essex Health and Care partnership integrated PCN Neighbourhood model.

• Responsible for the overall delivery of a range of evidence based interventions

to service users based on identified needs utilising agreed patient reported outcome measure tools.

• Ensure service users are seen in a timely manner by the right person, at the right time, in the right location.

• Implement a team approach to case management where practitioners are not isolated in decision making and have the ability to access a range of expertise to inform decision making.

• Work collaboratively with Consultant Psychiatrists and Senior Clinicians within the West Essex care unit.

• To take responsibility for supervising and managing clinical activity and casework

• • Work with clinical staff to best deliver access, activity, finance and quality targets.

• Work with Operational Service Manager to assist in delivery of cost improvement through service improvement and cost releasing savings.

• Work with the Trust Governance Team to ensure robust systems and programmes are established within the team to monitor and deliver high quality clinically effective services

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Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.

• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.

• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.

• Excellent pension of up to 14.5% of your pensionable pay.

• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.

• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us

• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

• Develop robust interagency relationships with key stakeholders and other outside agencies supporting the development of the integrated care pathways and locality working.

• Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the service, managing budgets, matching resources to need, and coping flexibly with workload pressures.

• Work collaboratively with the West Essex care unit corporate support services to establish and manage operational systems which highlight early warning of deviation from financial / activity targets, and initiate corrective action.

• • Responsible for the setting of quality standards within the services and the design processes to support them.

• Work with the Trust Governance Team to ensure robust systems and programmes are established within the team to monitor and deliver high quality clinically effective services.

• Work with the Patient Advocacy Li

This advert closes on Monday 3 Aug 2026

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