Learning Disability Physical Health Liaison Clinical Lead
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
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| Salary: | £49,387 to £56,515 a year |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN1 1EJ |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Posting date: | 12 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 19 Oct 2026 |
Summary
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details. Ensure clinical practice of members of the Learning Disability Liaison team is of a high standard and in line with best practice. Ensure the Learning Disability Liaison team receive supervision, appraisal, and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies. Contribute to, and where requested, lead on the development of the Learning Disability Service. Coordinate, and prioritise the workload of the team and ensure that all aspects of clinical and administrative are resourced within the limitations of the available staffing resources. Ensure that staff develop the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of clinical delivery, identifying to the Service Manager where there may be a skills deficit or lack of access to training required. To undertake serious incident and complaint investigations on behalf of the wider Trust as requested by the Associate Director or The Quality Lead. Undertake Audit of the Learning Disability Service performance and compliance to national and local standards. Implement service development and action plans within the team and ensure that lessons learnt from investigations are embedded within the teams practice. Ensure that information from Service and Trust meetings are passed to the team as appropriate and that team views are represented at Service and Trust meetings. To deputise for the Service Manager when requested to do so. Keep up to date on current practices in mental health and learning disabilities, including and lead on departmental training programmes and professional development education. To support recruitment within the team and across the Learning Disability Service. To attend relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of service users. Assist the Service Manager by monitoring performance and activity targets. Support the development and use of systems to monitor and review the Service Provision against national and local standards as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery. Play an active role in relevant professional and service improvement groups, within the service and Trust-wide.