Clinical Director

Service Care; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 158,000 - 193,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-working allowance £1,000

Job summary

Service Care is seeking a Clinical Director – Children and Young Persons to provide strategic and operational leadership across CYP mental health services. The role is remote with occasional travel to UK locations, 0.8 WTE, permanent part-time, reporting to the Medical Director.

Remuneration up to £175,000 FTE plus a £1,000 annual home-working allowance, with potential to earn up to £100,000 more through clinical assessments.

Qualifications

• Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent) and MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise and inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register.
• Significant senior clinical and strategic leadership experience in mental health services or a similar complex healthcare environment.
• Extensive experience working clinically with children and young people in CYP service delivery and operational settings.
• Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding, clinical risk management, governance, and quality improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership and oversight across CYP services, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care.
• Ensure services meet governance, safeguarding, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Chair and contribute to clinical quality and safety meetings, driving performance improvement and learning.
• Lead Clinical Leads, overseeing performance, development, resource management, and clinical concerns.
• Collaborate to design CYP pathways and workforce models that are responsive and sustainable.
• Lead service transformation initiatives to improve patient experience and outcomes.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Mental health expertise

Stakeholder management

Governance

People coaching

Education

MBBS or equivalent

MRCPsych or equivalent

GMC registration with licence to practise

Job description

Clinical Director – Children and Young Persons

Location: United Kingdom (Remote)

Reporting to: Medical Director

Remuneration: Up to £175,000 FTE, plus a £1,000 annual working-from-home allowance. In addition, there is significant earning potential, with the opportunity to earn up to a further £100,000 per annum through undertaking clinical assessments.

Contract Type: Permanent, Part-Time (0.8 WTE)

Location: Home-based with occasional travel to various UK locations as required

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Clinical Director – Children and Young Persons (CYP) to provide strategic and operational leadership across a growing portfolio of CYP mental health services. This is a pivotal senior leadership role with responsibility for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, high-quality, and patient-centred care for children and young people. Working closely with the Medical Director and wider clinical and operational leadership teams, you will provide strong clinical leadership, ensuring that governance, safeguarding, quality, and performance standards are consistently achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership and oversight across CYP services, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care.
• Ensure services meet clinical governance, quality, safeguarding, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Chair and contribute to clinical quality and safety meetings, driving performance improvement and organisational learning.
• Lead and support Clinical Leads, overseeing performance, professional development, resource management, and clinical concerns.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational leaders to design responsive, effective, and sustainable CYP pathways and workforce models.
• Lead service transformation initiatives focused on improving patient experience, clinical outcomes, capacity, and efficiency.
• Maintain a strong focus on safeguarding, ensuring children, young people, and families remain at the centre of clinical decision-making.
• Support the recruitment, induction, development, and retention of medical and multidisciplinary clinical professionals.
• Foster a culture of multidisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based practice, innovation, and clinical excellence.
• Work with senior leaders and external stakeholders to shape clinical strategy, policies, standards, and future service development.

About You

You will be a strategic, compassionate, and experienced clinical leader with substantial expertise in children and young people's mental health services.

You will possess a strong understanding of the clinical, safeguarding, and operational challenges involved in delivering high-quality CYP services, alongside the leadership skills required to drive organisational improvement and service excellence.

Strong influencing, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills are essential, as is the ability to lead through change, manage complexity, and respond confidently to emerging challenges.

The successful candidate will demonstrate high levels of professional integrity, sound clinical judgement, and the ability to balance patient safety, clinical quality, operational priorities, and organisational objectives.

You will also have a proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop future clinical leaders.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent) and a relevant postgraduate qualification (MRCPsych or equivalent).
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise and inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register.
• Significant senior clinical and strategic leadership experience within mental health services or a similarly complex healthcare environment.
• Extensive experience working clinically with children and young people, with a strong understanding of CYP service delivery and operational requirements.
• Comprehensive knowledge of safeguarding, clinical risk management, clinical governance, and quality improvement methodologies.
• Strong understanding of NHS services, healthcare regulation, and the wider healthcare landscape.

What’s on Offer

• Remote, flexible working.
• Competitive salary package of up to £175,000 FTE.
• £1,000 annual home-working allowance.
• Additional earning potential of up to £100,000 per annum through clinical assessment work.
• Opportunity to shape and influence the future of CYP mental health service delivery.
• A senior leadership position within a progressive and growing healthcare organisation committed to delivering high-quality patient care.