Head of Clinical Services (Female Applicants Only)

Head of Clinical Services (Female Applicants Only)

This senior leadership role provides strategic and operational oversight of WGN's Clinical Services, ensuring the delivery of innovative, safe, high-quality, survivor centred, trauma informed and culturally responsive therapeutic support for survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG).

As Head of Clinical Services, you will lead a multidisciplinary team delivering individual therapy, group work, body based therapies and web based counselling within WGN's intersectional Black feminist framework and Holistic Empowerment Recovery (HER) Model. You will shape the strategic direction of clinical services, strengthen partnerships, embed strong clinical governance and safeguarding practice, and foster a culture of collective care, reflective practice and anti oppressive leadership.

This role combines strategic leadership, service development, clinical oversight and people management to ensure WGN's therapeutic services remain sector leading, accessible and survivor led.

Part time basis (21 hours per week over 3 days).

About you

• Provide strategic and clinical leadership across all therapeutic services, ensuring high quality, trauma informed, strengths based and non pathologising support within an intersectional feminist framework.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, line managing senior clinical staff and embedding reflective practice, wellbeing and anti oppressive leadership.
• Hold responsibility for safeguarding and risk management as Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring robust case oversight and partnership working to keep survivors safe.
• Drive service development and innovation, using data, survivor feedback and best practice to shape responsive therapeutic pathways and specialist trauma interventions.
• Ensure equitable and inclusive access, strengthening referral pathways, managing demand with service managers and reducing barriers for marginalised survivors.
• Oversee monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance, ensuring compliance with professional standards and funder requirements and using learning to improve services.
• Build partnerships and sector influence, representing WGN externally and contributing to training, knowledge sharing and policy discussions.
• Embed survivor voice and co production across service design, delivery and development.

For key responsibilities, please see the attached job profile document.

Competencies

We'll assess you against these competencies during the selection process:

• Governance, Compliance, Safeguarding and Risk Management
• Trauma Specific
• Intersectional application and cultural humility skills

Closing date and interviews

This vacancy is open to applications on a rolling basis with interviews taking place on a rolling basis. We encourage early applications, as the role may close before the advertised date if a suitable candidate is appointed.

Important Note on Use of AI in Your Application

We understand that AI tools can be helpful in organising thoughts and reflecting on experiences. However, the competencies and presentation you submit should be a genuine and accurate reflection of your own skills, knowledge, and lived experience. We encourage you to ensure your application is written in your own voice, drawing directly from your experiences and motivations.

Please note that applications or submissions that appear overly reliant on AI generated content, or do not clearly reflect your own voice and experience, may affect your overall interview scoring.

Benefits

At WGN, we are committed to supporting our employees' well being, professional growth, and work life balance. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

Financial Benefits

• Bike Loan Scheme - Provided by Green Commute Initiative
• Pension Scheme - Enrolment into Aviva pension scheme from day one
• Charity Worker Discounts - Access to exclusive discounts
• Death in Service Benefit - Life assurance, including Virtual GP access and additional services

Health & Wellbeing Benefits

• Eye Care Support - Contribution towards eye tests and glasses for VDU users
• Enhanced Sick Pay - Based on length of service
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential support
• Clinical Supervision - For clinical and frontline roles
• Specialist Counselling - Up to six sessions for staff who are survivors of sexual violence
• Sanitary Products - Available at all WGN sites
• Hot Drinks - Provided at every site

Leave & Work Life Balance

• Annual Leave - 25 days plus public holidays and 3 closure days in December (pro rata)
• Birthday Leave - A day off to celebrate your birthday
• Enhanced Maternity & Adoption Leave - Support for growing families
• Unpaid Leave - Available for exceptional circumstances
• Flexible Working - Right to request flexible hours or patterns
• Hybrid Working - Balance between office and home working

Learning & Development

• Specialist Training & CPD - Ongoing development opportunities with accredited training
• Regular Supervision - One to one support from line managers

Location

West London (Hybrid)

Salary £48,000 - £51,000 per annum (£28,800 - £30,600 pro rated)

Company Overview

Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a pan London organisation that supports women and girls affected by all forms of gendered based violence. Our overall aim is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health and well being of women and girls who have experienced, or are at risk of, gendered based violence, whilst working towards a society free of gendered based violence.

We do this by:

• Providing women only holistic and seamless therapeutic services, which meet women and girls' needs and contribute to total and sustainable recovery from the experiences of violence.
• Evidencing the impact of gendered based violence and presenting this information in appropriate forums to affect social change in attitudes towards, and responses to, gendered based violence.
• Developing good practice in the sector by providing training and guidance on specialist service provision and the development of culturally appropriate service delivery.

WGN is proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer and a member of The London VAWG Consortium, Halo Code, and Helplines Partnership.

Join us and be part of a team that values your well being, growth, and contribution.

WGN is an equal opportunities employer.

The above post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1.