Head of Therapeutic Services

Head of Therapeutic Services focuses on provide strategic and clinical leadership across all therapeutic services, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed, and strengths-based approaches.

What the role involves

• Provide strategic and clinical leadership across all therapeutic services, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed, and strengths-based approaches.
• Develop multidisciplinary teams, line managing senior clinical staff and supporting staff wellbeing, reflective practice, and inclusive leadership.
• Overseeing safeguarding and risk management, ensuring robust case oversight, compliance with professional standards, and adherence to legislation.
• Driving service development and innovation, using feedback, data, and best practice to design responsive therapeutic pathways.
• Embed client voice and co-production across service design, delivery, and development.
• Build external partnerships, represent the service externally, and contribute to knowledge-sharing, training, or policy discussions.

Skills and requirements

• A recognised clinical qualification in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy, social work, or a related discipline.
• Registration or accreditation with a relevant professional body.
• Extensive post-qualification clinical experience, including working with trauma, complex needs, or survivors of abuse.

Additional role context

• This senior leadership role provides strategic and operational oversight of therapeutic services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe, and client-centred support.
• This role combines strategic leadership, service development, clinical oversight, and people management to ensure services are accessible, effective, and responsive to client needs.