This senior clinical post, reporting to the Clinical Director, covers therapy across Gordon Moody's residential and remote services. It combines clinical governance and safeguarding oversight with leading therapists and a small complex caseload. The postholder is also Designated Safeguarding Lead and helps shape treatment programmes for gambling harm, working 35 hours a week. Applicants need a recognised therapy or mental health qualification, current professional accreditation and at least three years in addiction or mental health services.
What the job involves
- Provide organisation-wide clinical leadership for therapeutic practice, including governance, safeguarding, risk management and quality assurance
- Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead, overseeing safeguarding, suicidality, crisis escalation and clinical risk
- Lead therapy clinical governance, including audit, policy review, peer review, supervision frameworks and quality improvement
- Lead therapeutic services and translate strategy into clinical practice, deputising for the Clinical Director when required
- Line manage Gambling Therapists and other allocated clinical staff, covering appraisal, wellbeing, capability and performance
- Provide expert clinical supervision and reflective practice to clinicians on complex formulation and risk
- Maintain a small caseload of complex or high-risk cases, delivering individual and group interventions such as CBT and motivational approaches
- Monitor clinical quality, treatment outcomes and service performance, and use findings to drive improvement
- Oversee delivery against service standards, programme requirements and commissioner expectations, including referral, transfer, discharge and aftercare
- Develop and deliver clinical training, and support recruitment, induction, workforce planning and succession planning
- Support inspections, audits, commissioner reviews and external assurance activity
- Represent Gordon Moody in clinical networks, commissioner discussions and external forums, and contribute to strategic planning and service development
What’s required
Qualifications
- Recognised postgraduate or doctoral therapeutic or mental health qualification, such as CBT, counselling, clinical or counselling psychology, or mental health nursing
- Degree in counselling, psychology or a related discipline
- Recognised clinical supervision qualificationEvidence of current continuing professional development
- Safeguarding Level 3
Registration & licences
- Current accreditation or registration with BABCP, BACP, HCPC, UKCP or another recognised professional body
Experience
- At least three years of significant post-qualification experience in addiction and/or mental health services
- Experience of complex and high-risk presentations, including safeguarding concerns, suicidality and co-occurring mental health difficulties
- Proven experience of line managing qualified therapists or other registered clinicians
- Experience of leading clinical teams and contributing at senior leadership level
- Experience of clinical governance, audit, quality assurance, and monitoring outcomes to improve services
Skills & knowledge
- Detailed knowledge of safeguarding, clinical risk assessment, crisis escalation and legal and regulatory responsibilities
- Ability to integrate other appropriate therapeutic approaches
- Excellent communication, influencing, analytical and relationship-building skills
- Ability to work effectively with service users, staff, commissioners, NHS services, regulators and external partners
- Competence in electronic clinical or patient record systems
Nice to have
- Experience within gambling harms services and/or other behavioural addictions
- Experience across residential and remote or community treatment settings
- Leadership, management, quality improvement, research or service evaluation experience
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
