Job Description

TCES Group

Merton
92,644 - 101,421 per year


Expiring soon

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Apply by:

2 July 2025

Job overview

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Starting Salary: 92,644 to 101,421 per annum.

Location: TCES Central Services, Wimbledon and travel required to all TCES sites across London.

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

We are seeking a visionary and skilled clinical leader to join us as Director of Clinical Services, driving transformative therapeutic education for neurodiverse young people.


You'll be an HCPC-registered clinician (e.g., Clinical/Educational Psychologist, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, or Creative Arts Psychotherapist) with extensive experience supporting children with SEMH, ASC, and related needs.


We're looking for strategic insight and strong clinical leadership. A Master's or Doctorate is preferred, along with a track record in trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and therapeutic approaches.


As Director, you'll lead our Great Minds Training & Therapy Service, delivering therapy, training, and whole-system support to schools, families, and professionals.


To thrive, you'll need a passion for impact, experience leading multidisciplinary teams, and the ability to drive high standards across services. If you're a collaborative, confident communicator ready to shape the future of therapeutic education--we'd love to hear from you.

The Complete Education Solution (TCES)

TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of education.


TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

An appropriate degree level professional qualification in a therapeutic specialism (e.g. Occupational Therapy, Speech & Language Therapy, Creative Arts Psychotherapy or Family Therapy). Current HCPC Registration. Masters qualification in a relevant subject (D). Membership of a British/Royal Association of Therapeutic specialism (e.g. RCOT, RSaLT). Evidence of relevant recent professional development for the role of Director of Clinical Services.

Recent experience

Substantial and relevant successful leadership experience as an executive clinician of a company or group of services delivering therapy and client therapeutic development. Working within an educational trust or group of settings would be desirable. Experience working in or collaborating with relevant multi-disciplinary teams across education, social care and clinical, working in collaboration with professionals and the wider community to deliver positive outcomes for children and young people. Knowledge of clinical conditions within child and adolescence mental health, as well as NICE guidelines relevant to mental health practice. Knowledge of the principles and implementation of the Recovery Model. Experience of leading services with complex cases, including planning and leading a range of individual and group sessions, co-facilitating and supporting clinical staff of a variety of grades. Experience of clinical governance and service development. Experience delivering training to a range of experienced / inexperienced staff through a variety of mediums. Demonstrable record of sustained service improvement, raising of standards and company success. Recent experience in the provision of consultation with, supporting and influencing senior leaders to make improvements to operational delivery of clinical services.

In return we offer:

Competitive Salary & Performance Related Bonus ,and Terms and conditions An opportunity to join a leading provider of specialist education in one of the most rewarding sectors whilst directly contributing to the positive outcomes for pupils with SEMH and ASC. Comprehensive induction process, and excellent CPD opportunities with all staff provided an individual Learning & Development Plan to support career development. Regular half termly staff wellbeing days. A range of employee support and wellbeing benefits including our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), counselling and contributions towards medical costs and an exclusive rewards platform. Gym & Active Health discounts. Private Healthcare Insurance

Closing Date: 02 July 2025

TCES is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

About

TCES Group

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TCES Group

3rd Floor, Beacon House, 26-28 Worple Road, Wimbledon
London
SW19 4EE
United Kingdom

+44 208 543 7878

The Complete Education Solution

(TCES) is an independent

social enterprise

consisting of a group of

Good and Outstanding

schools and services for young people with

neurodiverse identities

. Our pupils are aged 7 to 19 usually with diagnoses / labelled as having Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC) and/or Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. We are committed to achieving the best outcome for each pupil and their family through access to outstanding

therapeutic education

and family support.



We provide a sector-leading therapeutic education and pupil leadership curriculum across our two day schools (

TCES East London

and

TCES North West London

, in Newham and East Acton respectively), as well as our Create Learning Service, made up of

Create in the Community

and

TCES Create Primary

, which works with more complex students who need intensive support as part of our 'step down' model into one of our main schools,

TCES Sixth Form

, or mainstream provisions. In 2020, we launched

TCES Home Learning

to provide a full curriculum for children who are unable to physically attend school for a variety of reasons, including

severe anxiety and school phobia

.

On joining us, pupils will have already - on average - experienced 3 permanent exclusions, been out of full-time education for up to 18 months and/or are recognised to be substantially at risk of being unemployed, developing severe mental health problems and involvement with the criminal justice system later in life.

Between 3 and 5 years after leaving a TCES, 90% of our students are in education, training or employment

, going on to study at college and university and pursuing careers in social care, retail and theatre amongst others.



Our authentic commitment to inclusion means that since our opening in 1999, working with over 3,500 children and young people, we have

NEVER

permanently excluded

a single child. Since 2019 our fixed term exclusions have also been reduced to zero.



For more information on how to join our team and community, visit

www.tces.org.uk/vacancies

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