Clinical Advisor Function

Music touches us like nothing else on earth. It lifts us, consoles us, breaks our hearts, then heals them, makes us laugh, love, cry, and feel things more intensely. That’s pretty special. But making it all happen is challenging.

Work in the music industry is often on a freelance basis with no HR support. Pay is unreliable. Conditions inconsistent. Hours long and unpredictable. Practically, psychologically and emotionally, this takes its toll. Our availability and support make a significant difference. From studio assistants and artist managers to music therapists and lighting designers, every music person’s mental wellbeing matters. When they thrive, music thrives. That’s why it’s important. For all of us.

At Music Minds Matter we aim to make a positive difference to the mental wellbeing of everyone in music. We do this through connecting people in music to the information and support they need to take care of themselves and each other, building a shared understanding of mental wellbeing in music to enable people to get the right help early and fostering thriving teams and work spaces which promote and protect the mental wellbeing of their people. 

Music Minds Matter are seeking to appoint a Clinical Advice function as part of our clinical and quality governance framework to help ensure that everything MMM delivers meets the right standards and delivers maximised impact.

Responses are welcome from:

1. Organisations — for example a practice, clinic, or specialist provider — able to offer a named adviser on secondment or as part of a service arrangement. 

2. Individuals — experienced independent practitioners with the right clinical and governance background. 

Whichever model is proposed, we require a single named individual who will be MMM’s consistent clinical voice — known to our staff and trustees, signing off governance reports, and providing independent clinical expertise.

Where the successful candidate operates through a personal services company or similar intermediary, the engagement will be subject to an IR35 status assessment in accordance with current off-payroll working rules. Sole traders and other individual contractors will similarly be subject to an employment status assessment prior to engagement. A Status Determination Statement will be provided where applicable.

Core responsibilities include advising the Executive and Board on clinical governance and providing periodic reports, assuring the scope, approach and content of new support delivered by the charity, advising on commission of new support, providing expert advice on safeguarding and mental health incident management and advising on competence standards and quality assurance of freelance practitioners engaged by MMM

The named adviser — whether from an organisation or responding as an individual — must demonstrate:

1. Postgraduate qualification in a mental health discipline and current registration with a relevant professional body (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, BPS, NMC, or GMC)

2. Significant post-qualification clinical experience (minimum 5 years) in mental health

3. Direct personal experience of working with musicians or music industry professionals — this criterion must be met by the named adviser individually not the general organisational team

4. Experience of contributing to clinical governance in a charity, health, or care setting

5. Current safeguarding training at Level 3 or above (adults)

The named adviser cannot simultaneously be engaged to deliver services to MMM’s service users. Organisations that also deliver services to music industry professionals are welcome to respond, but the named adviser and any delivery personnel must be separate individuals, with genuine internal separation maintained. Full independence requirements are set out in the detailed brief.

Download the full brief using the link below. Your expression of interest should be submitted by 5pm on 26 June 2026 and should cover: a brief introduction to you or your organisation; the named adviser’s qualifications, registration, and relevant experience; how you would fulfil the function; and your proposed costs for year one, including a day rate for ad hoc work.

Your EoI must not exceed four A4 pages. Shortlisted respondents will be invited to a discussion with MMM — this is an opportunity for both parties to explore fit before any contract is developed. 

To submit an expression of interest or to arrange an informal conversation before the closing date, please contact: Victoria.​Angel-​Sutherland@​helpmusicians.​org.​uk

Music Minds Matter is committed to a fair and open process and will assess expressions of interest equally from organisations and individuals.