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Job summary
We are seeking an exceptional, compassionate, forward thinking leader to join us as Head of Clinical Services, supporting transformation across Crisis and Acute Divisions, an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about quality, safety, consistency, and systemwide improvement.
The Head of Clinical Services will play a central role in shaping the future of CRHT services, ensuring high quality care, strong clinical leadership, and consistent practice across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth. This role requires regular travel across the region to maintain visibility, connection, and leadership presence.
We are seeking someone who is:
Passionate about quality, safety, and transformation
Skilled at relationship building across teams and system partners
Experienced in CRHT, patient flow, and bed management
Confident using digital tools and data insights to shape services
Able to lead with compassion, consistency, and credibility
Motivated to bring teams together to create shared standards and consistent practice
Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to influence crisis care across a large, diverse geography and to lead meaningful transformation at a time of significant change. You will be joining a supportive senior leadership team committed to improving culture, safety, and patient experience.
If you are ready to help shape the future of crisis care and support teams to thrive, we would welcome your application.
Main duties of the job
Lead and support clinical teams to deliver consistent, safe, highquality care
Drive transformation and service improvement, ensuring alignment with Trust priorities
Build strong, collaborative relationships across CRHTs, inpatient services, system partners, and external agencies
Strengthen patient flow, bed management, and crisis pathways
Champion digital transformation, supporting teams to adopt new technologies and datadriven practice
Use data and analytics to guide business planning, service development, and future CRHT models
Support culture change rooted in compassion, curiosity, learning, and psychological safety
Ensure effective governance, escalation processes, and consistent operational standards
Work closely with senior leaders to embed new ways of working across the organisation
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
- Date posted: 31 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8b
- Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 348-SAC-11898
- Job locations: Melbury Lodge, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DG, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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This advert is for Head of Clinical Services with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 8 role. The advertised salary is £66582.00 to £77368.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 16 Aug 2026.
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