# Operational Lead / Senior Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/operational-lead-senior-therapist/c2a82770-4d50-4f27-a712-f290c3768c96 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/operational-lead-senior-therapist/c2a82770-4d50-4f27-a712-f290c3768c96.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Lawton House, Trust Headquarters - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Operations manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata - **Contract type:** 24 months (Fixed term 30/09/28 - Secondment Oppertunity) - **Employment type:** 29 hours per week (Part time / fixed term) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-07T16:10:59.549Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/NewcastleunderLyme/North_Staffordshire_Combined_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Operational_Lead_Senior_Therapist_Ascend/Operational_Lead_Senior_Therapist_Ascend-v8278783 - **Employer website:** https://www.combined.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Please note: This is a Secondment Opportunity. The Ascend Service is a partnership between North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust and Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust (MPFT), offering specialist, trauma-informed support to people across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire affected by sexual assault and abuse. We are seeking an experienced CBT Practitioner to provide both advanced clinical practice and strong operational leadership within our multi-agency team. Working closely with the MPFT you will help coordinate service delivery, support performance and pathway oversight, and contribute to ongoing service development across both Trusts and partner agencies. ### Main duties of the job As an autonomous clinician working to BABCP standards, you will deliver high-quality CBT interventions while offering credible leadership to therapists and colleagues. You will play a key role in ensuring services remain accessible, compassionate, and aligned with the strategic priorities and governance frameworks of the partnership. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Key Duties/Responsibilities - Strategic and Governance Responsibilities - Represent the service at commissioning, contract monitoring, and multi-agency partnership meetings, ensuring the services performance priorities and challenges are clearly articulated and addressed. - Prepare, analyse, and present performance, outcome, and quality reports, identifying achievements and areas for improvement. - Ensure compliance with NICE guidance, safeguarding legislation, and service specifications. - Lead and contribute to audit, evaluation, and research activity demonstrating service quality and impact. - Embed learning from incidents, feedback, and reviews into service delivery and practice development. - Promote the voice of survivors in service design and quality assurance processes. - Operational Leadership and Workforce Management - Provide visible day-to-day leadership, ensuring delivery of safe, compassionate, and responsive services. - Oversee all operational processes including referrals, assessments, crisis support, and onward pathways. - Line manage the multidisciplinary team, ensuring regular supervision, appraisal, and development planning. - Foster a supportive culture prioritizing staff wellbeing, reflection, and accountability. - Coordinate recruitment, induction, and mentoring of new staff, embedding trauma-informed and survivor-centered values. - Work collaboratively with HR and senior leadership on workforce planning, capacity management, and skill mix. - Clinical Supervision and Professional Support - Provide and coordinate high-quality clinical supervision and reflective practice in line with professional standards. - Offer expert consultation and oversight of complex cases, supporting multidisciplinary collaboration. - Ensure adherence to ethical and professional codes of conduct and organisational clinical governance frameworks. - Maintain personal clinical supervision and CPD in accordance with BABCP standards. - Support the development of trauma-informed, recovery-focused models of care within the team. - Direct Clinical Duties - Maintain a small clinical caseload, delivering specialist CBT and trauma-informed interventions to individuals and groups. - Conduct comprehensive assessments, develop collaborative formulations, and plan evidence-based interventions. - Evaluate treatment outcomes using service-specific measures and adjust plans as required. - Undertake risk assessment and contribute to multi-agency risk management processes. - Liaise effectively with colleagues across health, social care, and voluntary sectors to ensure continuity of care. - Maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with professional and organisational policies. - Remain current with national and local policy developments relating to trauma, sexual assault, and mental health. - Service Development and Quality Improvement - Lead on implementation of trauma-informed and recovery-focused models of care. - Support training and development initiatives for staff and external partners. - Participate in service development, audit, and research projects contributing to continuous improvement. - Identify and implement innovations that enhance accessibility, quality, and survivor experience. - Promote co-production with service users in shaping and evaluating services. - General Duties - Maintain active engagement in CPD and supervision in line with organisational and professional requirements. - Adhere to all confidentiality, data protection, and information governance policies. - Observe Health and Safety requirements and promote a safe working environment. - Uphold the Trust’s values and commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. - Undertake any other duties commensurate with the role as required by the Service Manager or Clinical Lead. COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS - Clinical Lead and Service Manager - Partner agencies including police, safeguarding boards, health and voluntary sectors - Commissioners and contract monitoring representatives - Survivors, peer networks, and lived experience partners - Internal psychological therapies, safeguarding, and governance teams GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY - Responsible for ensuring service delivery meets quality, safety, and performance standards. - Accountable for reporting on activity, outcomes, incidents, and safeguarding. - Participate in local governance meetings and contribute to the wider Trust governance framework. - Promote evidence-based practice and contribute to policy and service development. ### Applicant requirements This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Committed to compassionate, trauma-informed care; Promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion; Reflective, resilient, and adaptable ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive post-qualification experience delivering CBT for trauma and complex presentations - Demonstrated clinical leadership or team management experience **Desirable** - Experience in service development or quality improvement projects - Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency health setting ### Qualifications **Essential** - Professional qualification in health or social care (or postgraduate training and qualifications in another sector to enable equivalent levels of responsibility with the client group in that setting) - Post-graduate diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (or an equivalent course) **Desirable** - Further training in trauma or EMDR; Leadership or management qualification ## Documents - [nhs pension (pdf, 97.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1216) - [employee benefits (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2653) - [why work at nscht (pdf, 689.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1217) - [jd chc_25.11-04 operational lead / senior therapist fv (pdf, 776.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10595052) ## 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.