Head of Clinical Services (Female Applicants Only

Head of Clinical Services (Female Applicants Only)

This senior leadership role provides strategic and operational oversight of WGN’s Clinical Services, ensuring the delivery of innovative, safe, high-quality, survivor-centred, trauma-informed and culturally responsive therapeutic support for survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).

As Head of Clinical Services, you will lead a multidisciplinary team delivering individual therapy, group work, body-based therapies and web-based counselling within WGN’s intersectional Black feminist framework and Holistic Empowerment Recovery (HER) Model. You will shape the strategic direction of clinical services, strengthen partnerships, embed strong clinical governance and safeguarding practice, and foster a culture of collective care, reflective practice and anti-oppressive leadership.

This role combines strategic leadership, service development, clinical oversight and people management to ensure WGN’s therapeutic services remain sector-leading, accessible and survivor-led.

This role is offered on a part-time basis (21hours per week worked over 3 days).

• Provide strategic and clinical leadership across all therapeutic services, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed, strengths-based and non-pathologising support within an intersectional feminist framework.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams
  , line managing senior clinical staff and embedding reflective practice, wellbeing and anti-oppressive leadership.
• Hold responsibility for safeguarding and risk management as Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring robust case oversight and partnership working to keep survivors safe.
• Drive service development and innovation
  , using data, survivor feedback and best practice to shape responsive therapeutic pathways and specialist trauma interventions.
• Ensure equitable and inclusive access
  , strengthening referral pathways, managing demand with service managers and reducing barriers for marginalised survivors.
• Oversee monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance
  , ensuring compliance with professional standards and funder requirements and using learning to improve services.
• Build partnerships and sector influence
  , representing WGN externally and contributing to training, knowledge-sharing and policy discussions.
• Embed survivor voice and co-production across service design, delivery and development.

For key responsibilities, please see the attached job profile document.

We'll assess you against these competencies during the selection process:

• Governance, Compliance, Safeguarding and Risk Management
• Trauma Specific
• 'Intersectional application and cultural humility skills

When responding to competency questions, if you do not have direct experience, please state this clearly. Then explain what you would do if you were in that scenario, so we can understand your thought process and approach.

This Final date to receive applications at 9:00am on Monday, 7 September 2026. A two-stage interview process will follow.

Please note that this role may close before the advertised closing date if a high volume of applications is received or if a suitable candidate is appointed.

Please note: if you have previously applied for this role, your application has already been considered and you do not need to reapply at this time.

We understand that AI tools can be helpful in organising thoughts and reflecting on experiences. However, the competencies and presentation you submit should be a genuine and accurate reflection of your own skills, knowledge, and lived experience. We encourage you to ensure your application is written in your own voice, drawing directly from your experiences and motivations.

Please note that applications or submissions that appear overly reliant on AI-generated content, or do not clearly reflect your own voice and experience, may affect your overall interview scoring.

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