Deputy Clinical Lead (Maternity Cover): Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Bedfordshire Talking Therapies (BTT) offers individual, couple and group therapy for those struggling with anxiety and/or depression. We require a suitably qualified and experienced Therapist / Psychologist to work as a Deputy Clinical Lead.

Applicants will be accredited with a professional body and have extensive experience of delivering therapeutic interventions. Applicants will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience of being in a leadership role and must be enthusiastic about delivering high quality talking therapies to service users and able to work autonomously and creatively.

Applicants will be responsible for working with the clinical lead to enhance the clinical quality within the service. This will include developing strategies to manage KPI’s across the service and to focus on performance within the team.

Applicants will be one of two Deputy Leads working together and alongside the Team Leaders to ensure the effective running of the service. Applicants will also be given specific projects to run and co-ordinate.

As a Talking Therapies service we seek to provide ease of access for service users and therefore, some of your working week may be located in a community base/may require flexible working. You will also be expected to be able to travel across the county regularly.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team where your ideas and creativity would be welcome in contributing to the development of an effective and innovative service.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Deputy Clinical Lead is to deliver effective Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and to support the growth, development and strategy of the service provision.

The post holder will provide line management and clinical support for the Team Leaders in the service. The post holder will also provide clinical supervision for Team Leaders and therapists in the service. The post holder will be responsible for assisting in the recruitment, placement and supervision of various positions across the service including trainees. They will hold a small clinical caseload.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

  • Accredited Counselling/Clinical Psychologist or Recognised and accredited CBT/Relational trained therapist.
  • Recognised formal training in clinical supervision

Experience

Essential

  • A minimum of two years of being a Team Leader/Lead Clinician of a team in a healthcare setting
  • Experience working with a wide range of psychological problems over a moderate period of time.
  • Experience working with Service Users who have anxiety / depression.
  • Experience of working with patients from mild to complex conditions
  • Experience as a supervisor
  • Experience in line management of clinical staff including managing HR issues.(need not be therapists)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Willingness, skills and abilities to contribute to and to participate in the service development process
  • Knowledge of generic mental health care
  • Knowledge pertinent to effective risk assessment and management
  • Knowledge of how to performance manage staff.
  • In depth knowledge and specialist expertise in one area of psychological therapy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 15 November 2026

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