Deputy Clinical Lead for Newham Talking Therapies

Job summary

Newham Talking Therapies (NTT), Centre for Clinical Excellence is looking to recruit a part-time (4 days/0.80 WTE) Deputy Clinical lead to join a busy and high performing and creative team. We are part of East London NHS Foundation Trust which has been rated "Outstanding" for the second year by Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are committed to ensuring a healthy work life balance and a positive working environment.

NTT is an exceptional talking therapies service with excellent development opportunities. We are committed to the progression of our team members and our posts are formulated to allow for development of clinical expertise in chosen clinical areas. As well as offering a range of therapies, the service also runs as a training centre, therefore offering opportunities for supervision and training.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be one of the three Deputy Clinical Leads. All Deputies share the majority of core service, strategic and staff management tasks but each will lead on different clinical and service areas. This post will provide clinical, strategic and performance leadership for all High Intensity modalities, i.e. CBT, relational therapies and Long-term Health Conditions. The post-holder will also perform responsibilities delegated by the Clinical Lead as appropriate for this level of seniority.

Under the directions of the Clinical Lead, the post holder will work closely and jointly with the counterpart Deputy Clinical Leads to maintain and further develop the full integration of the service (i.e. staff and performance management, interventions across steps, modalities and clinical specialist areas).

Through direct management of Managers (8As), the Deputy Clinical Leads will ensure the services vision, NTT business model, clinical quality, productivity and KPIs are consistently and systematically delivered. Due to rapid and constant changes in IAPT services targets and landscape, the two Deputies are required to work jointly to manage throughput, capacity and a quick turnaround of sound strategies to ensure the delivery of the services KPIs.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.