Mental Health Clinical Lead
- Southside Dublin Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
This role combines clinical governance, supervision, and service leadership with a strong customer-facing focus, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based services that meet both client needs and organisational prioritiesResponsibilities:Clinical Leadership & Governance
- Provide strategic clinical leadership across psychology services, ensuring adherence to the highest professional standards.
- Lead on the development, implementation, and monitoring of clinical governance frameworks, safeguarding practices, and quality standards.
- Oversee service evaluation and clinical outcomes, embedding best practice and continuous improvement across teams.
- Act as a clinical supervisor for psychologists, trainees, and other clinicians, ensuring robust support and professional development.
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to psychology teams, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and reflective practice.
- Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, and retention strategies for psychological services.
- Lead adult, child, and young people’s mental health services in line with HSE and NHS standards.
- Champion the use of evidence-based interventions and innovative models of care.
- Ensure services are delivered in ways that are safe, effective, and client-centred.
- Act as a key customer-facing clinical leader, presenting webinars, events, and clinical updates to external stakeholders.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, commissioners, and partners, ensuring services meet contractual and organisational objectives.
- Provide clinical expertise in business development, service design, and partnership working.
- Doctoral-level qualification in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
- PSI accredited/chartered and registered with BPS or HCPC.
- Substantial post-qualification experience, including at Senior Psychologist level or equivalent in the HSE/NHS.
- Demonstrated leadership in adult, children, or young people’s mental health services.
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality clinical governance, risk management, and safeguarding.
- Experience of supervising clinical and counselling psychologists.
- Evidence of service leadership with a focus on evaluation, outcomes, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience of delivering webinars, events, and customer-facing engagement.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Experience working across both public and independent sector services.
- Published research or contributions to service evaluation and evidence-based practice.
- Experience of contributing to service development at regional or national level.
- Full-time permanent contract at 20 hours per week
- Competitive salary (Dependent on experience).
- 25 days of annual leave pro rata
- 24/7 EAP and a wide range of health and wellbeing supports
- Extensive list of employee perks and benefits https://app.box.com/s/zo4f2ipvf5gsnfnbhe0w2439zqk4rdhn
- Opportunity to shape and lead innovative psychological services.
- Professional development, training, and leadership opportunities.
- A collaborative, supportive team environment
- Location: This is a primarily remote role, giving you the flexibility to work from home. Please note, an occasional on-site presence in Dublin will be required