Clinical Service Lead - Therapeutic Residential Care

We need you to lead a group of talented psychologists and psychotherapists in supporting young people and the organisations that care for them, across the South of England.

This role suits a clinician who would like to apply their therapeutic knowledge systemically across a service and who enjoys business development and leadership strategy as well as clinical work.

This is a new and highly specialist role for a clinician with strong leadership skills to provide professional leadership of the MCTS Therapeutic Care Service.

We provide clinical and psychological support to independent residential, fostering and education providers who want to deliver specialist therapeutic care. In your role as Clinical Service Lead for the Therapeutic Care division, you will bring our Attachment and Trauma Informed Care (ATIC ) model to life in a range of settings, ensuring quality delivery and resource management.

You will be crucial in expanding the provision of the service, identifying new business opportunities to increase the numbers of organisations we help and support. This will involve engaging with key stakeholders and creating opportunities for customer engagement.

As our Clinical Service Lead, you will assume responsibility for:

- Professional leadership of the MCTS Therapeutic Care Service

- Oversight of work and service delivery across multiple sites, including regular on-site visits

- Representing the Therapeutic Care Service to the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors.

- Development of the business strategy for the Therapeutic Care Service, with support from the Senior Leadership Team.

- To manage the service budget ensuring resources are deployed effectively and financial targets are met.

- To take a lead on long-term strategic planning and development of the Service to meet agreed targets and requirements and to increase the number of homes we support.

- To be professionally accountable for service provision.

- Lead the management of Governance & Risk within the Therapeutic Care Service, ensuring adherence to policy and procedures.

- To line manage and provide clinical supervision to the Therapeutic Care practitioners and support staff, ensuring the robust clinical management of specialties within the service, including recruitment, retention through career development and appraisal, management of poor performance and sickness absence.

- To take a lead role in workforce planning and career structure design within the Therapeutic Care Service to inform recruitment and retention within the services.

- To work in collaboration with the other Service Leads to ensure effective senior leadership when the Head of Service is not present e.g. annual leave etc, First and foremost, MCTS is a social enterprise. We provide clinical and psychological support to independent care providers who want to deliver specialist therapeutic care. We are the partner of choice for clinicians who value giving back as well as making a living.

"I was initially nervous about leaving the NHS, but I've found that within MCTS, you have much more scope to make meaningful changes than I had when I was in CAMHS. My caseload is smaller, I feel well-resourced, empowered to work autonomously, and I'm able to be creative when implementing interventions at an individual and service level. It's been a really refreshing change." Clinical Psychologist in MCTS

You are a HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist or a UKCP registered Psychotherapist

- Substantial experience of delivering evidence based therapeutic supports, systemic consultation and advice in inpatient mental health settings or a children's services context - local authority, CAMHS, or services for looked after children

It would be great if you had:

- Experience of leadership and management

- Experience in representing psychology within a multi-disciplinary service and offering supervision, training and support to clinicians and non-clinicians

- Knowledge and experience in Attachment and Trauma-Informed Care principles

There is much scope for evolving and expanding the clinical role within the team and we are proud to have a dynamic and creative approach to implementing meaningful change within the services we support.

Salary: £55K - £60K, DOE
Working Pattern: Full time - you will work from home 2 days per week and be on site across the South of England 3 days per week.

Benefits: 25 days' holiday + 8 bank holidays, pension scheme, enhanced DBS check and update service, ongoing clinical and professional support and supervision, extensive training and continued professional development opportunities, peer buddy allocated at induction, monthly reflective practice space for all clinicians and fully-funded team development events.

Are you a skilled and therapeutic leader who can champion and embed our Attachment and Trauma Informed Care model across residential services?