Head of Clinical Services

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Head of Clinical Services
The closing date is 16 August 2026.

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

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Desirable

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Experience
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Additional Criteria
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Additional information
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Melbury Lodge, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5DG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Associate Director of Urgent Care and Flow
Goretti Halliday
Goretti.Halliday@nhs.net
07739607784