Welcome! The Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) services are busy caring teams consisting of Administration staff, PWPs, CBT Practitioners, and Counsellors. We serve the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin which has exciting, diverse and growing modern towns, surrounded by the stunning Shropshire countryside.
Our NHS Talking Therapies teams are great places to work. We are surrounded by supportive leaders and managers. Staff are encouraged to contribute to the service vision and set the culture.
Are you ready for a new challenge? We would like you to join us, to become part of our supportive and innovative IAPT Services. If this is the challenge for you and you meet the qualities and qualifications required, we would love to hear from you.
The patient experience is at the centre of everything we do and this post represents our next phase of our service strategy – the development of an integrated long term conditions (LTC) pathway. The Talking Therapy services will offer the local population a LTC service, focussing on the highly prevalent LTCs, which are Cancer, COPD, Asthma and Diabetes. The local services are already primed to start this work, and require a highly motivated, clinically credible senior clinician to lead this area of service delivery.
Working under the direction of the clinical lead:
1. Provide clinical leadership for Long Term Conditions, providing associated consultation, training and clinical supervision to other team members.
2. Provide evidence based psychological therapy within your specified modality to a more complex clinical population.
3. Lead on developing integrated clinical pathways, to ensure place-based therapy delivery.
4. To provide clinical leadership to the service and operate within the senior leadership team.
5. Ensure services meet the national competency frameworks, ensuring workforce compliance with NICE approved therapies.
6. With the clinical lead, provide a quality feedback framework, by inputting to incident report reviews and providing feedback.
7. Contribute to the implementation of specialist area pathways and provide ongoing monitoring.
8. Engage in research activity within the services, providing a point of contact and a conduit to research colleagues.
9. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
10. To provide supportive clinical leadership to engage and support the workforce in providing effective therapies.
11. Providing a specific area of expertise to case discussions and promoting psychological thinking within multiagency meetings.
12. Lead on “Making every contact count”, to promote healthy lifestyles and reducing health inequalities for clients.
13. Deputise for the clinical lead, when required and on a rotational basis.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
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