Clinical Lead - Enhanced Mental Health Pathfinder
Band 8d
Main area Mental Health and Psychological Therapies Grade Band 8d Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 277-8022291-CMH
Site Memorial Hospital Town London Salary £100,493 - £114,951 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/06/2026 23:59
Job overview
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trustare proud to be part of the new Pan-London Enhanced Mental Health Pathfinder Alliance; bringing together the NHS and voluntary sector to improve care for adult victims and survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex trauma-related mental health needs, enabling recovery and long-term wellbeing. The Alliance aims to strengthen collaboration between statutory and voluntary sector services, improve identification of complex trauma-related needs and develop thecapacity and pathways required to deliver timely, sustained,trauma informed support.
We are seeking an psychological professional for a pivotal leadership role in the Alliance Management Team, responsible alongside the Alliance Director for ensuring the EMHP Alliance deliversits vision andstrategic objectives. The post holder will bring experience of working with survivors of sexual harm who have complex mental health needs. They will be a compassionate leader with substantial experience in strategic clinical decision making, leading complex service change, and the ability to influence across a range of organisations. They will occupy a senior psychological profession position, making contributions toprofessional associations, forums and teaching institutions.They will role modelandchampion the EMHP Alliance’s vision and values, buildinga culture where staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds flourish.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously within EMHP Alliance, Oxleas NHS Trust and professional guidelines. Alongside the Alliance Director, the post holder will provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across the Alliance, ensuring safe, effective, trauma-informed evidence-based, timely care for adult survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex mental health needs. They will lead clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, service planning and clinical pathway development across partner organisations, while promoting shared clinical s tandards, reducing fragmentation and improving access and outcomes. The post holder will chair relevant forums, lead audit, policy and service development with the AMT, oversee ev aluation a nd research activity, and help shape training, su pervision a nd workforce development. The role requires visible senior leadership, strong partnership working across NHS and voluntary sector services, and a commitment to equity, inclusion, lived ex perience a nd psychological safety.
The Alliance is made up of six core members: Ashiana, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Pan London Sexual Violence Alliance, Respond, Solace and Survivor’s Trust. The post holder will be required to work in offices of Alliance members on a regular basis.
Please note, this is a pan London development project and the Post holder will be required to travel across the whole of London as part of their duties.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychological therapies, psychiatry, nursing and AHPs and community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy. 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 values:
* We Listen
* We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
Person specification
Education/ Qualification
* Professional qualification in applied psychological profession such as Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy or Arts Therapies (ie professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration. For Practitioner Psychologists and Arts Therapies, HCPC registration is required. For Psychotherapists, a SCOPED level 3 professional qualification and registration is required.
* For Practitioner Psychologists and Arts Therapies, HCPC registration is required. For Psychotherapists, a SCOPED level 3 professional qualification and registration is required.
* Additional training beyond entry‑level qualification in at least one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to the role (through formal post‑qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice‑based learning in a specialist area of clinical psychological therapy practice, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
* Relevant senior leadership training and CPD
* Additional specialist training in trauma, complex mental health needs, and/or sexual harm with developed clinical specialism.
* Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.
Experince
* Evidence of having provided leadership in, and worked as a clinical specialist in, specialist adult mental health services; including working with complex mental health needs and people who have experience sexual abuse and harm.
* Experience providing clinical supervision to multidisciplinary teams
* Experience of providing teaching and training to psychological professionals and others.
* Experience of carrying out post‑qualification research, audit, or service evaluation projects.
* Experience of working with experts with lived experience to undertake co‑production, support participation and enable rights to involvement.
* Experience of leading development of clinical governance, quality assurance, and risk management.
Skills/ Abilities/ knowledge
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and clinical leadership
* Advanced knowledge of the theory of relevant psychological practice/ processes and their therapeutic application to working with adults who have experienced sexual abuse.
* Advanced theoretical knowledge of adult mental health and the evidence base for relevant interventions, with demonstrated understanding of how this relates to this post
* Knowledge of protected characteristics, diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care.
* Evidence of significant expertise in clinical risk management including suicide prevention.
* Knowledge of psychological research methodology quality improvement and audit/service evaluation methodologies, analysis and interpretation of data.
* Knowledge of a range of therapeutic ideas/ approaches /models in assessment and treatment relevant to discipline and adults who have experienced sexual abuse
* Knowledge and skills gained in managing qualified and unqualified psychological practitioners, including recruitment and retention, appraisal and performance review and personal development procedures, sickness absence, maternity leave/paternity leave, annual leave, and disciplinary procedures
* Knowledge, ability and skills to identify and deploy effective clinical governance arrangements.
* Knowledge and skills gained in the management of budgets and resources in relation to staff group and the profession.
* Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and to contribute to staff wellbeing.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to organisations and staff groups exposed to highly distressing situations
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Sian Critchley-Robbins Job title Head of Psychological Therapies, Secondary MH Care Email address sian.critchley-robbins@nhs.net Telephone number 0208 836 8598
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