Head of Therapy (Addiction)

In this senior role, you provide organisation-wide clinical leadership for therapeutic practice, ensuring safe, high-quality care across residential and remote services. You will lead the therapy workforce, uphold governance and risk management, and shape the direction of Gordon Moody’s treatment programmes. Working with the Clinical Director and SLT, you translate strategy into effective delivery while maintaining a small involvement in complex clinical work. This is a chance to influence practice at scale in a mission-driven charity.

• Provide organisation-wide clinical leadership and governance across therapeutic practice
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead and oversee safeguarding, risk, audits, and policy development
• Translate strategy into effective clinical delivery and oversee service development
• Maintain a small caseload focused on complex/high-risk cases
• Line manage Gambling Therapists and allocated staff, deliver training and support recruitment and workforce planning
• Ensure timely, safe, and effective access to therapy and consistent clinical practice
• Deputise for the Clinical Director when required
• Contribute to strategy, service development, partnerships and external representation
• Report on outcomes and quality to senior leaders, commissioners and stakeholders
• Lead clinical supervision, reflective practice and professional development
• Facilitate in-house clinical training and maintain knowledge of best practices

• Recognised postgraduate/doctoral qualification in CBT, counselling, psychology, or mental health nursing
• Current accreditation/registration with BABCP, BACP, HCPC, UKCP or equivalent
• Recognised clinical supervision qualification and ongoing CPD
• Significant post-qualification experience in addiction and/or mental health services (≥3 years)
• Experience with complex/high-risk presentations and safeguarding
• Line management experience of therapists or registered clinicians
• Leadership experience in clinical teams and senior leadership
• Strong governance, audit, quality assurance and improvement experience
• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment, crisis escalation and regulatory responsibilities
• Experience using outcomes data to drive service improvement
• Excellent communication, influencing, analytical and relationship-building skills
• Competence with electronic clinical/patient record systems
• Safeguarding Level 3

• Compassionate and credible leadership
• Collaborative and inclusive approach
• Trauma-informed mindset
• CBT and motivational interviewing
• Integrative therapeutic approaches
• Clinical governance and quality improvement