Clinical Lead
Employer: Brake
Location: Fully remote role with flexible working arrangements. The postholder will be expected to undertake occasional travel across the UK for team meetings, service visits, training, organisational events and other business requirements.
Working hours: Part-time, 21 hours and 45 minutes per week over three days
Salary: £23,400 (FTE £39,000)
Closing date: Wednesday 16 September 2026, 5pm (we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications)
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The role will support service resilience and operational improvement from a clinical perspective, including monitoring risks to safe service delivery, identifying opportunities to improve impact and efficiency, and helping ensure client outcomes are achieved before case closure.
Hours: Part-time, 21 hours and 45 minutes per week over three days
Salary: £23,400 (FTE £39,000)
Working pattern: Fully remote role with flexible working arrangements. The postholder will be expected to undertake occasional travel across the UK for team meetings, service visits, training, organisational events and other business requirements.
Deadline for applications: Wednesday 16 September 2026, 5pm (we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications)
Interviews to be conducted: Wednesday 23 September 2026
Start date in role: ASAP
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Job purpose
We are looking for a Clinical Lead to provide visible clinical leadership and assurance across Brake’s National Road Victim Service and wider organisational clinical practice, ensuring that services are safe, evidence-led, trauma-informed and consistently delivered.
The role will lead clinical governance and safeguarding development, strengthen quality assurance and risk management, provide specialist clinical and safeguarding guidance, and build workforce confidence through learning, reflective practice and professional development.
Working closely with leaders, managers and practitioners, the Clinical Lead will promote accountability for clinical standards, support consistent quality across regional teams and ensure learning from incidents, complaints, reviews and audits translates into service development.
The postholder will act as the lead for trauma-informed practice within NRVS and support the embedding of trauma-informed approaches across the wider organisation, ensuring practice reflects current evidence, professional standards and changes in the external landscape.
The Clinical Lead will model continuous learning, professional curiosity, constructive challenge and evidence-led decision-making, supporting leaders and managers to lead their teams confidently through change.
Who we are
Brake is the national, acclaimed charity delivering the National Road Victim Service, a specialist, accredited, UK-wide support service for road victims, delivering case-managed care for anyone who has been bereaved or seriously injured in a road crash or who is supporting a road crash victim.
What we offer
A generous 35 days of annual leave (including bank holidays and 3-day shutdown period between Christmas and New Year, pro-rata for part-time working patterns)
Birthday day off (taken any time)
Enhanced sick pay and compassionate leave
Death in service benefit
Pension
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible working
A rewarding role with purpose
Be part of a skilled, friendly team with an engaged Board of Trustees
Who you are
You will be a credible, compassionate and accountable clinical leader with the professional confidence to provide visible assurance on clinical safety, safeguarding, quality and risk across NRVS.
You will combine strong clinical judgement, analytical thinking and constructive challenge with the ability to translate evidence, quality intelligence and learning from incidents, complaints, reviews and audits into practical service improvement.
You will be collaborative, values-driven and able to build confidence in others, supporting Regional Managers, caseworkers and senior leaders to apply safe, consistent, evidence-led and trauma-informed practice.
Specifically seeking candidates with:
Credible clinical leadership, with the ability to provide assurance to senior leaders and the Board, promote accountability and influence safe, consistent practice across teams.
Clear communication, influencing and relationship-building skills with practitioners, managers, executives, trustees and external stakeholders.
Ability to provide specialist clinical and safeguarding advice on complex cases, while supporting others to make safe, proportionate and evidence-led decisions.
Strong facilitation, training and reflective practice skills, with the ability to design and contribute to professional development for caseworkers and managers.
Ability to analyse evidence, risk, quality intelligence, service outcomes and client journey information, and translate insight into improvements in impact, efficiency and service delivery.
Strong organisational, analytical and report-writing skills, with the ability to manage complexity, maintain confidentiality and provide clear assurance on clinical safety and quality.
Ability to support Regional Managers and senior leaders to lead teams confidently through change while maintaining safe, evidence-led and trauma-informed practice.
About us
At Brake, we are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued, respected, and supported. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and life experiences, and particularly encourage candidates from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ community, and people with disabilities to apply.
We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our work and enable us to deliver the best possible support to individuals and families affected by road trauma. As a proud Disability Confident employer, we don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
If you are passionate about making a difference and share our vision for a world where no one is killed on our roads, we want to hear from you.
Not for traffic offenders: Due to the nature of our work we can't accept applications from traffic offenders. Candidates will be asked to disclose whether they have any unspent points or driving convictions on their licence at interview.
An enhanced DBS check is required due to the sensitive nature of our service.
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