Adult Service Clinical Lead (Oakdale Psychological Therapies Division) – Transform Lives with Oakdale
Location: Harrogate/Horsforth/Halifax/Hybrid
Hours: Part Time (0.6 FTE)
Salary: £60,023.25 – £75,813.15 FTE
Make a Difference Every Day
At Oakdale, we believe in care that changes lives. For over 25 years, we’ve been delivering trusted, evidence-based therapies and assessments for children, young people, and adults. As a values-driven, not-for-profit organisation, we work with the NHS, schools, local authorities, and private clients, always putting people first.
Now, we’re looking for a compassionate and skilled Adult Service Clinical Lead to join our supportive, forward-thinking team. If you’re passionate about clinical excellence, wellbeing, and making a genuine impact, we’d love to hear from you.
The Role – What You’ll Do
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Adult Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical, operational, and strategic leadership across the adult services within the Psychological Therapies Division. This role is suited to a highly experienced Psychotherapist or Psychologist with extensive expertise working across a broad range of adult mental health services and care pathways.
The postholder will lead on assessment and intervention across adult service areas ensuring high standards of evidence-based, person-centred practice in the Oakdale Psychological Therapies Division, including:
- Private therapies
- Integrated pathways (MDT Trauma and complex needs)
In this role, there will be a strong emphasis on service development and diversification to strengthen, expand, and integrate adult pathways across the division.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Leadership & Oversight
- Lead the implementation, embedding, and ongoing refinement of assessment and intervention pathways across the division, ensuring they are consistently delivered to a high standard.
- Lead clinical triage processes for complex adult referrals, providing senior clinical consultation and decision-making support.
- Provide strategic and clinical oversight of complex multidisciplinary assessments
- Ensure all interventions delivered across the division are evidence-based, aligned with national and professional guidance, and tailored to individual needs
- Reporting to the Director of Psychological Therapies, drive continuous service improvement through clinical audit, outcome monitoring, reflective practice, and feedback mechanisms to strengthen quality and effectiveness over time.
- Hold a small but complex clinical caseload, modelling formulation-driven, trauma- informed, and neurodiversity-affirming best practice.
- In collaboration with the CYP clinical lead, oversee high standards of risk assessment and safeguarding practice across the division, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and governance frameworks.
Service Development & Diversification
- Working closely with the Business Development Manager, lead the strategic development,diversification and mobilisation of adult pathways across the division to strengthen provision and respond to emerging need.
- Identify gaps in adult service delivery and implement innovative, evidence-based solutions.
- Develop and strengthen partnerships with external stakeholders, including primary care, community services, statutory services, and voluntary sector partners.
- Provide consultation and training to multidisciplinary teams and partner organisations to enhance adult mental health capability across systems.
- Support the Business Development Team by contributing clinical expertise and strategic input to funding proposals, tender applications, and service bids.
- Contribute to service evaluation, governance, and quality improvement initiatives to ensure sustainability and measurable impact through attendance at Oakdale’s relevant governance groups.
Supervision & Line Management
- Provide high-quality clinical supervision to psychotherapists and multidisciplinary colleagues working within adult services.
- Offer line management, professional development support, and performance oversight.
- Promote a reflective, ethically grounded, and psychologically informed culture across adult services.
Leadership & Workforce Development
- Work closely with the senior leadership team to inform workforce planning, recruitment, and service structure within the adult provision.
- Advise on skill mix, competency development, and pathway design to strengthen adult services across the division.
- Contribute to strategic planning, organisational development, and governance processes.
About You
Essential Criteria:
- Recognised qualification and professional registration as a psychotherapist:
- post-graduate, doctoral level training in applied psychology (or its equivalent), that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration. (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologists)
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OR MSc/Post Grad Diploma qualification in Psychotherapy (e.g. CBT, Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, Creative Arts Therapist), that has been accepted by the UKCP/ACP/BABCP/HCPC for purposes of professional registration.
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OR HCPC registered clinician who has completed further psychological therapies training, which enables them to be eligible for accreditation with a recognised professional or regulatory body, for example, EMDR.
- Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience working across a diverse range of adult mental health services.
- Demonstrated experience leading assessment and intervention within adult clinical settings.
- Experience managing complex presentations, including risk assessment.
- Experience providing clinical supervision and line management.
- Proven track record in service development, pathway design, or diversification of provision.
- Experience working collaboratively across multidisciplinary and multi-agency systems.
Desirable Attributes:
- Strong strategic thinking and service innovation skills.
- Experience contributing to funding applications or service tenders.
- Confidence in delivering consultation and training to varied professional audiences.
- Commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming person-centred practice.
