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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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.
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.
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:
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.
Submit your CV and a covering letter which clearly demonstrate you have what it takes to perform this challenging and rewarding role to recruitment@brake.org.uk.
We'd like to get to know the real you through your application, not an AI version. If you do use AI to write your cover letter, please check it and make sure it reflects who you are. We encourage cover letters in alternative formats such as videos or presentations.
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Questions? If you would like to discuss the role further, please get in touch, we'd love to chat.