Head of Therapy

Closing Date: October 12, 2026

Job Description and Person Specification

Head of Therapy

• Reporting to:
  Clinical Director
• Direct reports:
  Gambling Therapists and other clinical staff as allocated
• Hours:
  
  35 hours per week
• Location:
  
  Redditch some travel to Wolverhampton
• Leadership scope:
  Senior Leadership Team member with accountability for therapeutic practice across residential and remote services

The Head of Therapy provides organisation-wide clinical and professional leadership for Gordon Moody’s therapeutic services. The postholder is accountable for the safe, effective and evidence-based delivery of structured treatment for people experiencing gambling-related harms and associated mental health difficulties across residential and remote pathways.

As Gordon Moody’s senior therapy subject matter expert, the postholder leads clinical practice, governance, safeguarding and risk oversight, workforce capability, programme development and evaluation. They work closely with the Clinical Director and operational leaders to translate strategy into consistent, high-quality care, strengthen referral and partnership pathways, and support the continued development and diversification of services.

The postholder maintains a limited clinical caseload, including complex cases where appropriate, and combines direct clinical credibility with strategic leadership, line management, expert supervision, quality improvement and external representation.

• Provide specialist clinical expertise in the assessment, formulation and treatment of gambling-related harms, behavioural addictions and co-occurring mental health difficulties.
• Lead or advise on complex, high-risk and multi-factorial cases, ensuring clear formulation, treatment planning, review and escalation.
• Deliver and oversee evidence-based individual and group interventions, including CBT, motivational approaches and appropriate integrative therapies.
• Maintain a limited caseload and model excellent clinical practice, professional curiosity, trauma-informed care and recovery-focused working.
• Provide consultation on therapeutic care to clinical and non-clinical colleagues and support coherent decision-making across multidisciplinary teams.
• Ensure continuity of care across residential, remote and external pathways, including effective referral, transfer, discharge and aftercare arrangements.

• Direct, lead and manage the provision of therapeutic services so that access, assessment and treatment are timely, safe, effective and appropriate to clinical need.
• Provide clinical and operational leadership across treatment services, working with service leads to maintain safe staffing, caseload oversight and consistent practice.
• Ensure therapists follow agreed clinical processes, including assessment, care planning, record keeping, handovers, clinical meetings and outcome monitoring.
• Oversee delivery against agreed service standards, programme requirements and commissioner expectations, taking prompt action where performance or quality varies.
• Support recruitment, induction, workforce planning, retention and succession planning for the therapy workforce.
• Work flexibly across services and support the Clinical Director and other senior colleagues as required.

• Lead therapy-related clinical governance activity, including audit, policy development and review, peer review, supervision frameworks, practice observation, incident learning and quality improvement.
• As Designated Safeguarding Lead, maintain oversight of safeguarding suicidality, crisis escalation and clinical risk management, ensuring that concerns are identified, documented, escalated and reviewed appropriately.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding legislation, professional standards, regulatory requirements, commissioner expectations and Gordon Moody policies and procedures.
• Monitor clinical quality indicators, treatment outcomes and service performance, analyse variation and implement corrective actions and sustainable improvements.
• Lead the quality assurance and monitoring arrangements relevant to the therapy workforce and the professional bodies represented within it.
• Support preparation for inspections, audits and commissioner reviews, providing clear evidence of safe practice, learning and improvement.
• Promote an open learning culture in which staff can raise concerns, reflect on practice and learn from…