Clinical Director | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£94,356 - £108,814 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Reading, RG30 4EJ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Nov 2026
Closing date:	4 Dec 2026

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Summary

We are seeking an exceptional clinical leader to join as Clinical Director for All Age Mental Health, Community Learning Disabilities and Eating Disorders.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for providing strategic clinical leadership and ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based care and outstanding outcomes for local people. Working as a key member of the Trust's senior leadership team, you will shape clinical strategy, drive quality improvement, lead service transformation and support delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives.

The role is open to registered healthcare professionals across medical*, nursing, psychology, AHPs and social work. Applicants must have substantial senior leadership experience within mental health services and a strong track record of delivering quality improvement, clinical governance and service transformation. Knowledge and experience of learning disability services would be advantageous.

You will be an inspiring and collaborative leader, capable of working across organisational boundaries, influencing system partners, leading multidisciplinary teams through change. The post includes maintaining professional registration through a small clinical commitment or clinically focused professional activity.

*Medics will be paid on the medical pay terms and conditions.

Whatyou'llbe doing

The Clinical Director will provide visible professional leadership for quality assurance and clinical governance across the portfolio. Working with operational, nursing and professional leads, you will ensure that robust governance arrangements are in place to monitor quality, safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience; oversee learning from incidents, complaints, audits and safeguarding reviews; and use performance and outcome data to identify risk and drive continuous improvement. You will support constructive oversight through relevant governance forums, ensure that agreed actions are delivered and provide clear assurance to the Trust’s executive leadership and Board in line with regulatory and statutory requirements.

Essential requirements:

• Current registration withan appropriate professionalregulatory body (e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC or Social Work England).

• Significant senior clinical leadership experience within mental health services, Learning Disabilities orEating Disorderservices.

• Experience of leading quality, safety,governanceand service improvement.

• Strong strategic leadership, partnership working and influencing skills.

• Experience of leading complex change across multidisciplinary services.

• Knowledge of learning disability services.

• Experience across all-age pathways

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority

• Committed to providing good quality, safe services

• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance

• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell

• Generous NHS pension scheme

• Excellent learning and career development opportunities

• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles

• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services

• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants

• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality

• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave

• Free parking across Trust sites

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of mental health, learning disability and eating disorder services across Berkshire Healthcare and to make a lasting difference to the people and communities we serve.

The “must haves” for this role:

• Current registration with an appropriate professional regulatory body (e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC or Social Work England).

• Significant senior clinical leadership experience within mental health services, Learning Disabilities or Eating Disorder services.

• Experience of leading quality, safety, governance and service improvement.

• Strong strategic leadership, partnership working and influencing skills.

• Experience of leading complex change across multidisciplinary services.

• Knowledge of learning disability services.

• Experience across all-age pathways.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. 

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We have identified that this is a role where we have underrepresentation of ethnically diverse colleagues. As part of our commitment to inclusion and Unity Against Racism we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who meet the essential criteria and identify as: Asian or Asian British, Black or Black British, Mixed and ‘Other’ Ethnic Groups.'

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to contact Theresa Wyles, Chief Operating Officer email theresa.wyles@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026

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