Mental Health Clinical Lead - Talking Therapies

Acacium Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Mental Health Clinical Lead to oversee clinical safety and quality in therapy delivery. This role involves updating policies, providing training, and offering clinical supervision to therapists, ensuring high standards of care. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance service offerings and support the development of new clinical propositions. Join a dynamic organization committed to making a difference in mental health services across the UK, where your expertise will directly impact patient care and service quality.

Benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Discounted gym memberships

Regular team away days

Rewards Portal with discounts

Monthly vouchers for nominated employees

25 days annual leave

Free flu vaccinations

Cycle to Work scheme

Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance

2 paid charity days a year

Qualifications

• Accredited CBT Therapist or Clinical Psychologist with relevant qualifications.
• Experience in delivering primary care talking therapies for adults and children.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical oversight and input into clinical policies.
• Support service development and identify quality improvement initiatives.
• Lead investigations into complaints and incidents for improvement.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Mental Health Expertise

Communication Skills

Clinical Governance

Research Skills

Education

Accredited CBT Therapist

Clinical Psychologist

IAPT Supervision Qualification

Job description

Mental Health Clinical Lead

Xyla (Part of Acacium Group)

Homebased with frequent national travel

Permanent, Full Time

£65,000-£70,000 dependant on experience

Unlock your potential:

Are you a clinical leader with expertise in mental health and talking therapies? Do you have a passion for providing clinical services with an exceptional quality of care?

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Clinical Lead, accountable for the clinical safety and quality of the therapy we deliver. You will be responsible for updating policies, delivering training, providing clinical supervision and acting as a clinical consultant to therapists with any complex therapy and safeguarding issues.

As an effective communicator, you will collaborate with the bids and sales team, supporting the development and expansion for new propositions from a clinical governance and risk perspective.

Part of Acacium Group, Xyla's mental health support team provides a wide range of mental health services to support the NHS and local authorities across the UK. Our goal is to make sure everyone gets the help they need quickly and easily. We provide people with adult digital mental health support, children and young people digital mental health support, group mental health support and mental health assessments.

Everyday you will...

• Provide clinical oversight and input into Xyla's clinical policies and standard operating procedures
• Support the development and expansion of the service, researching new modalities and new market sectors
• Support the Service Lead and Xyla’s management team in identifying quality improvement initiatives in line with research and industry best-practice
• Work within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for systematic governance of the clinical service
• Attend monthly supervision to uphold personal accreditations with an external supervisor
• Take an active role in ensuring all clinical staff are suitably skilled and trained to deliver the service to the highest clinical quality, driving outcomes
• Lead as an independent investigator upon the escalation of complaints and serious incidents into Xyla delivery and operations, providing insight into improvement opportunities to drive patient experience and clinical excellence

What’s in it for you?

We love exceptional people, and in return, we offer an exciting place to work, with a wide range of benefits, rewards and opportunities to grow your career, including:

• Learning & development opportunities tailored to your role as well as fully funded qualifications
• Gym Flex- discounted gym memberships, UK-wide
• Events and incentives including regular team away days
• Rewards Portal offering discounts on shops, restaurants, bars and cinemas
• Rewards and recognition programme awarding monthly vouchers to nominated employees
• 25 days annual leave that increases upon each year of service
• Free flu vaccinations
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance, Critical Illness Cover and Private Medical Insurance
• Optional charity involvement with 2 paid charity days a year

Join us and make a difference!

If you want to join a global, marketing-leading organisation who are committed to the human side of business, then look no further. Acacium Group is the UK’s largest healthcare staffing and solutions partner and specialise in the healthcare, social care, and life sciences industries. We are a business with scale, leading digital capabilities and a strong financial profile, with a vision to be the leading global healthcare solutions partner.

We are powered by the best people and have an unrivalled and diverse range of capabilities, all while incorporating our company values into everything we do - Putting People First, Always by your Side, Driven by Excellence.

Join us and play a key part of shaping the future of society and improving people’s lives!

To thrive in this role, you must...

• Be an accredited CBT Therapist with the BABCP or a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC
• Have an IAPT supervision qualification or modality specific supervision qualification
• Have experience delivering primary care talking therapies to both adults and children
• Have experience working at a senior management level in an IAPT/talking therapies service

Our Inclusion Commitment:

We are passionately committed to being a truly inclusive and diverse company - it is at the heart of our core value of Putting People First. We continue to enhance our culture of inclusion and diversity across all of our roles and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities.