# Head of Clinical Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-clinical-services/8956b84c-97d9-48fc-be45-94744ed1892d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/head-of-clinical-services/8956b84c-97d9-48fc-be45-94744ed1892d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66582.00 to £77368.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T13:50:29.105Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9348-26-1614 - **Application URL:** https://southernhealth.tal.net/vx/candidate/apply/11898?instant=apply - **Employer website:** https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.