Deputy Director of Psychological Professions for ARD
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
NELFT's senior Psychological Professionals' leadership team is excited to advertise a Deputy Director role within our Acute Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD). This role has been vacated due to relocation. The successful candidate will provide psychological and clinical leadership into the ARD Directorate which holds crisis, acute and diversion services. These include psychiatric inpatient wards, home treatment crisis teams, psychiatric liaison, forensic psychology, crisis houses, crisis hubs and learning disability, autism crisis services, forensic and neuropsychology. The successful candidate will be part of the most senior team of Psychological Professionals within NELFT led by the Director of Psychological Professions and will have peers covering Redbridge, Havering, Waltham Forest, Barking and Dagenham and Essex, Kent, Talking Therapies. The role will include oversight of all psychological provision for all ages within ARD. The post holder will become a core member of the directorate's multidisciplinary senior leadership team and will lead a group of senior psychological professionals within the Directorate.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will hold Trust-wide strategic, clinical focus on psychological delivery in the following specialty areas:
1. Patient safety forums
2. Relational Security
3. Core member of the Relational Security Facility and taking a lead role in cultural change in line with the faculty aims
In recent years, there has been major investment into Psychological Professions and clinical leadership within NELFT. This has resulted in a vastly expanded senior Psychological Professional leadership team and a major transformation. This work is within the implementation phase and looks at several areas, including the creation of parity between bandings of Psychological Professionals in different areas of NELFT; ensuring that the care delivery is trauma informed for both people who use services and staff; and the integration of siloed psychological offers of care into multidisciplinary secondary care adult mental health provision. The transformation also included the coproduction of an accountability framework in which clinical and operational colleagues work collaboratively and in partnership to deliver the best care for people who use services, their carers, family members and supporters. This offer is in line with NELFT's commitment to being patient and clinically led, and operationally enabled.
About Us
NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.
Job Responsibilities
Now is an important time to be joining NELFT. We are a patient and clinically led organisation which is operationally enabled. NELFT's cohort of Psychological Professions hold a vision which centres on coproduction, trauma informed care, building a community of psychological professionals and delivery of inclusion and parity of access to all residents in the areas we serve. We strive to provide inclusive, accessible and individualised offers of care in a timely manner; to reduce health inequalities; and to recognise the harm caused by social injustice in the communities we serve. We are committed to working with integrity, authenticity and courage to deliver the best possible psychological care to those using our services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology
* Post-graduate qualification in psychology or a psychological therapy (e.g. clinical or counselling psychology, psychotherapy)
* BABCP accredited or meeting eligibility criteria for BABCP accreditation
* Post Graduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy as accredited by UKPC or BPC.
Knowledge
* Detailed and advanced knowledge of a range of evidence-based therapeutic interventions and their practical application in a range of mental health therapeutic settings
* A robust and broad understanding of national health and social care strategy and policy, in relation to developing services for secondary care
* Knowledge of strategic planning process
* Comprehensive knowledge of mental health policy
Skills
* Evidence of leading groups of psychological professionals working in NHS services
* Open, participative, dynamic and supportive leadership and management style
* Ability to build alliances and secure ownership of proposals across organisational boundaries
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, featuring: breadth of outlook and political skill necessary to establish effective working relationships with staff at all levels within and outside the organisation
* Ability to identify, define, promote, communicate and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective management processes and rational and timely decision making
* Ability to work in partnership with other key professionals within and outside the organisation and a partnership approach to work across agencies
* Ability to analyse complex issues, to think and plan to achieve both tactical and strategic objectives and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures
* Effective in conflict resolution and management
* Ability to present complex information to a diverse audience
* Positive outcomes of service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Interim Director of Psychological Professions
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