Tim Kendall was appointed as National Clinical Director for Mental Health in England in April 2016, providing clinical expertise and strategic advice across government and the NHS. He chairs several government and multi-agency committees to implement national mental health strategy and leads programmes around impact of COVID, suicide reduction, community mental health transformation, talking therapies and digitalisation. He also represents the NHSE at Parliamentary Health Select Committees, All-Party Parliamentary Groups, Ministerial Roundtables and international forums. He chaired the steering group and hosted the first Global Ministerial Summit on Mental Health, including hosting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in London in October 2018 and continues to support international colleagues delivering the Global Summit each year in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and now Buenos Aries.

Tim is also Director of National Collaborating Centre at Royal College of Psychiatrists and University College London (UCL) since 2001, where he chaired the first ever National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline - on schizophrenia. He has facilitated the production of 30 or more NICE guidelines since. Tim has published widely, awarded the 2004 Lancet Paper of the Year and is visiting Professor at UCL since 2009 and Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield (2022). He has been invited to consult to a diverse range of foreign governments including Germany, South Korea, Georgia, Turkey and others.

Tim continues work as consultant psychiatrist for the homeless in Sheffield. He is a strong advocate for inclusion of people with lived experience and convened the first ever Expert Reference Group for NICE which included lived experience members. Tim has been conferred with two honorary doctorates for his contribution to mental health at the Open University (2019) and at the University of Sheffield (2020).