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The Head of Community Services Development will lead the growth and evolution of Day One’s national offer for people affected by serious and life-changing injury, while designing and implementing a new service to support individuals transitioning from Hospital to Home. The post holder should combine strategic leadership with hands on service design and development expertise, ensuring the national offer becomes the charity’s returning home service in line with the new strategy for 2026-2029. Newly designed services will deliver high-quality, compassionate support and that are well designed, evidence-based and responsive to the real world needs of people with serious and life-changing injury. Working closely with the Head of Lived Experience, to ensure lived experience insight is central to all design and implementation, and that new pathways complement Day One’s existing Peer Support model.
What You Will Bring
To be a highly organised, outcome focussed self-starter, with excellent communication and leadership skills who is able to work in a fast-paced environment and build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will be highly skilled and experienced in scoping and designing a service and seeing it through to implementation, adapting it in accordance with ongoing analysis and feedback.
How to apply
Please upload your CV and supporting cover letter to Charity Jobs outlining why you’re interested in the role. Please take your time to explain how your experience is relevant to this post.
Closing date: 9am Monday 13th April 2026
Interviews:
First stage virtual: Monday 20th April 2026
Second stage in-person (Leeds): Thursday 30th April 2026
For further information, please refer to the attached recruitment pack.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
Inspired ‘by patients for patients’ our vision is that no one has to piece life back together on their own after catastrophic injury.
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Lead the future of youth opportunity in Bristol.
Drive income, build partnerships, and change young lives every day.
Young Bristol is looking for an ambitious and passionate Head of Fundraising & Communications to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our charity and the thousands of young people we support.
This is more than a fundraising role. It’s a unique opportunity to take ownership of income generation at one of Bristol’s leading youth charities, working at a time of exciting growth as we approach our 100-year anniversary. You’ll lead our fundraising strategy, grow a diverse income portfolio, and build meaningful partnerships that directly enable young people to thrive.
Working closely with our Chief Executive, Senior Leadership Team and Trustees, you will drive sustainable income across trusts, corporates, major donors and events, while also leading communications that bring our impact to life. From powerful storytelling to strategic relationship-building, your work will ensure more young people have access to safe spaces, trusted adults, inspiring activities, and life-changing opportunities.
We’re looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with a hands-on approach — a confident communicator, relationship builder and leader who is motivated by purpose and driven to make a difference.
In return, you’ll join a values-driven, supportive team who truly believe in every young person and are committed to helping them discover what they are capable of.
If you’re ready to lead, inspire and create lasting impact across Bristol’s communities, we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date for applications is 17:00 on Wednesday 22nd April
Interviews will take place on the Wednesday 29th April, in person at our main offices. BS14 Youth Centre, Stockwood Lane, Bristol. BS14 8SJ
Closing date for applications is 17:00 on Wednesday 22nd April
Interviews will take place on the Wednesday 29th April.
Registered Charity
21 - 50
“To be an outstanding provider of high-quality, community-based youth services that positively and sustainably impact the lives of young people"
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Job Title: Consultant Suicide Prevention Therapist
Salary: £65,000 per annum, plus 15% ILW if applicable
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Birmingham, Liverpool, London, or Newcastle, with travel to other centres when required
Reports to: Director of Clinical Services
THE CHARITY
Suicide is the leading cause of death of men under 35 and three quarters of those who die by suicide are men. James’ Place exists to save the lives of men in suicidal crisis through delivering clinical services. We are a charity currently offering free, life-saving therapy to suicidal men at our centres in Liverpool, London and Newcastle.
James’ Place was set up by Clare Milford Haven and Nick Wentworth-Stanley in 2008 after their twenty-one-year-old son, James, died by suicide ten days after a minor operation. James had no history of mental illness or depression and had sought urgent help for anxiety and suicidal thoughts but didn’t find it.
James' Place was set up to make the experience of finding help as easy as possible. We offer men who are experiencing a suicidal crisis a brief, intensive, therapeutic intervention in a safe environment. Men who walk through the door at James’ Place will be in a space where they feel valued and respected. We provide a calm and peaceful environment both inside the centres and in our outside spaces, accessible to men who visit us as well as their friends and families. We have so far treated over 5,100 men who might otherwise have been unable to access the support they desperately need.
In early 2026 we will be opening our fourth centre in Birmingham. Our new centre in Birmingham will be there to support suicidal men living in the West Midlands.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for Consultant Suicide Prevention Therapist to join our expanding clinical directorate. The Consultant Suicide Prevention Therapist is a senior clinical leader responsible for the delivery, governance, quality and continuous improvement of the organisation’s therapeutic suicide prevention model.
The Consultant Suicide Prevention Therapist reports to the Director of Clinical Services who retains overall strategic, executive and corporate accountability for all aspects of clinical services across the organisation.
Within this structure, the Consultant Suicide Prevention Therapist plays a pivotal leadership role in translating strategic direction into operational delivery of therapeutic services. The postholder ensures consistency, quality, safety and fidelity of clinical practice across centres, working closely with Heads of Centres and clinical staff to embed standards, manage risk and drive service improvement.
The role combines coordination and delivery of specialist clinical expertise, leadership, research and evaluation, clinical training and opportunity to deputise for the Director of Clinical Services in defined areas of delegated responsibility.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Advanced Specialist Clinical Practice
- Provide expert consultation on cases involving increased risk
- Operate with high autonomy in complex, high-stakes clinical decision-making
- Model advanced formulation, safety planning and therapeutic engagement
- Support multidisciplinary decision-making in situations with significant clinical and organisational implications
- Hold a small, specialised caseload offering welcome assessment and interventions
Research and Evaluation
- Review existing research and literature to inform your own work
- Lead clinical audit and service evaluation programmes
- Initiate and oversee research activity in suicide prevention
- Develop academic partnerships where appropriate
- Disseminate learning internally and externally
- Analyse and interpret data and other information
- Comply with ethical, legal, and health and safety requirements when undertaking research
Clinical Training
- Lead on advanced clinical training frameworks
- Design and (co)deliver suicide prevention and risk management training
- Develop and maintain clinical competency frameworks
- Provide supervision to senior clinicians and specialist practitioners as required
- Embed reflective practice and continuous professional development structures
Service Performance, Quality Data Leadership
- Establish and monitor KPIs and clinical outcome measures
- Interpret complex clinical and operational data to inform service improvement
- Lead quality improvement initiatives across centres
- Ensure robust data governance and confidentiality standards
- Oversee digital safety and governance in remote or technology-enabled delivery
- Use evaluation findings to influence strategic and commissioning discussions
Strategic and Service Leadership
- Support implementation of the Director of Clinical Services’ strategic vision for therapeutic services
- Lead operational delivery of the organisation’s suicide prevention therapeutic model across centres
- Translate organisational strategy into clear clinical standards, competencies and delivery expectations
- Work collaboratively with Heads of Centres to ensure consistent standards of care, governance and risk management
- Provide professional leadership and clinical direction to Principal-, Senior- and Suicide Prevention Therapists
- Ensure fidelity to evidence-based suicide prevention frameworks
- Represent the organisation in multi-agency suicide prevention partnerships and regional forums
- Escalate systemic risks, quality concerns and strategic issues appropriately
Clinical Governance and Organisational Risk
- Lead and maintain the clinical governance framework for suicide prevention services
- Oversee serious incident review processes and ensure implementation of organisational learning
- Lead on governance, audit and risk reporting relating to therapeutic services
- Ensure safeguarding standards are consistently embedded across centres
- Develop and review organisational policies relating to suicide risk management and crisis response
- Ensure readiness for internal and external inspection and compliance within our agreed quality standards
- Manage high level clinical risks with potential organisational or reputational impact
Financial and Resource Responsibility
- Hold delegated responsibility for defined elements of the service budget (e.g., training, research or service development)
- Contribute to workforce planning and establishment modelling
- Ensure effective and efficient use of clinical resources
- Provide input into business cases and funding proposals
Leadership and Line Management
- Provide direct line management to designated colleagues
- Hold responsibility for appraisal, performance management and capability processes
- Provide professional leadership across all therapist grades
- Support Heads of Centres in managing complex clinical performance or risk issues
- Ensure safe caseload allocation and supervision structures
- Contribute to recruitment and workforce development strategy
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Lead culturally competent and trauma-informed suicide prevention practice
- Address inequalities in access, experience and outcomes
- Promote inclusive, anti-discriminatory clinical standards and practice across services
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential
Qualifications
- Professional qualification in Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, Psychiatry, Nursing, Social Work, or equivalent
- Current registration with relevant statutory body or accredited membership of recognised professional body (e.g., Health and Care Professions Council, NMC, UKCP, BACP, BABCP)
Experience
- Substantial post-qualification experience working with individuals at high risk of suicide
- Experience leading clinical governance frameworks
- Experience managing serious incident reviews and embedding learning
- Experience contributing to organisational strategy implementation
- Experience delivering advanced supervision and training
- Experience influencing service delivery across multiple teams or sites
- Experience interpreting complex service data to drive improvement
- Experience operating with significant professional autonomy
Knowledge
- Advanced knowledge of suicide theory, risk formulation and evidence-based interventions
- Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and practice relevant clinical governance frameworks
- Understanding of best practice models, and quality standards
- Knowledge of outcome measurement systems and quality improvement methodology
- Awareness of national suicide prevention strategies and policy landscape
Skills and Competencies
- Advanced clinical risk assessment and formulation skills
- Strategic thinking and systems leadership
- Ability to translate strategy into operational delivery
- Strong analytical and data interpretation capability, to design, conduct and evaluate research
- Skilled in influencing senior stakeholders
- High emotional resilience and professional integrity
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
Desirable
Qualifications
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post Qualifying masters and/ or Doctoral level qualification
Experience
- Experience with delegated budget management.
- Experience representing services in regional or multi-agency forums
- Research publication or formal evaluation leadership
WE OFFER
- A 7% employer contributory pension scheme
- Family friendly policies
- Death in service insurance scheme
- 25 days plus bank holidays leave entitlement (FTE), including enhanced holiday allowance with incremental rises after qualifying period
LEARN MORE
If you would like to learn more about working for James' Place, sign up to our online recruitment information session on Wednesday 8th April at 6:30pm - 7:15pm.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please use the online application system to submit your CV detailing your experience, roles and responsibilities, and answer the two screening questions relating to the knowledge and skills you hold for this role. Please note, you do not need to upload a cover letter for this role. If prompted to upload a cover letter, please attach a copy of your CV instead.
Closing date: Wednesday 15th April, 12 noon
First round interviews are expected to be held on Wednesday 22nd April via MS Teams.
James’ Place is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community. Our aim is that no job applicant, temporary worker or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age, disability, gender and transgender status, race and ethnicity, religion and belief (including no belief), marriage or civil partnership status or sexual orientation.
If you have a disability or health conditions which means you'd benefit from any adjustments to the interview process to help you perform at your best, please do let us know in advance.
Any job offers made are subject to the receipt of two relevant satisfactory employment references. We expect this to include one from your most recent or current employer. Any job offers made are also subject to a satisfactory DBS check and a Right to Work in the UK check.
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