Professional Lead for Clinical Health Psychological Services
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior psychological professional to take on the position of Psychological Professional lead for Clinical Health Psychological Services (CHPS). The successful candidate will manage, lead, co-ordinate and take overall responsibility for the work of Psychological Professionals in CHPS, which is Trust wide but sits under the B&D Directorate. This will include day operational management, guidance and support to the Psychological Professionals within the Clinical Health Psychological Service including management and clinical supervision, monitoring and maintaining high standards of service delivery and clinical leadership.
Main duties of the job
1. To participate fully in the work of the Directorate / Senior Management Team and take direction as requested and attend, participate in, Integrated Care Director (ICD) or other meetings as required including effectively communicating service related information.
2. To analyse situations, some of which will be highly complex, requiring interpretation and comparison of a range of options to make decisions and raise these concerns with the Deputy Director of Psychological Professions, Assistant Integrated Care Director or Deputy Assistant Director, making appropriate referrals as necessary e.g. complex clinical, safeguarding and service response decisions.
3. To take responsibility for the analysis and reporting on key performance and efficiency targets, taking appropriate action in collaboration with the Assistant Integrated Care Director and corporate services where necessary.
4. To ensure maximum use of clinical resources, including the monitoring and evaluation of activity and performance within the pathway.
5. To manage, lead, co-ordinate and take overall responsibility for the work of Psychological Professionals in the Clinical Health Psychological Service Teams within the assigned directorate.
6. To include day to day operational management, guidance and support to the Psychological Professionals within the Clinical Health Psychological Service including management and clinical supervision, monitoring and maintaining high standards of service delivery and clinical leadership.
About us
Starting with NELFT NELFT place 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.
Probationary Period 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).
High Cost Area Supplement - London This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum pro rata).
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Job responsibilities
1. To lead on the delivery of high quality, responsive and accessible psychological provision to individual adult Service Users and their families, who are receiving care in the Clinical Health Psychological Service of the assigned borough (although this will be Trust wide).
2. Leading on the provision of expert advice, consultation and support to colleagues in the Clinical Health Psychological Service and other professionals who are referring Service Users to the service.
3. To include providing a psychological perspective to care planning for Service Users who are complex and/or present with risk.
4. To provide the necessary leadership and infrastructure to support evidence-based practice.
5. To participate in dialogue with other Psychological Professional leads regarding best practice in order to promote the provision of high quality, evidence based practice which promotes anti-discriminatory practice, cultural competence and equality of opportunity.
6. To work in collaboration within a variety of forums to ensure consistency and quality of clinical standards, to support service development and Trust initiatives.
7. To ensure there are robust systems for clinical supervision, appraisal and career development for Psychological Professionals working within the Clinical Health Psychological Service of the assigned borough (Trust wide).
8. To participate in and contribute to organisational decision-making processes.
9. To ensure that the Trust's Values are embedded in processes and practice, providing feedback and appropriate interventions where there are inconsistencies.
10. To act as a change agent in communicating to others the vision of change as an opportunity; and to contribute to innovative change programmes to continuously improve the delivery of high quality clinical care and service user satisfaction as directed by the Assistant Integrated Care Director, and Deputy Director of Psychological Professions in a way which engages and inspires others, through the use of Quality Improvement.
11. To communicate effectively with all individuals and groups, and act as a positive role model.
12. To communicate with other Psychological Professional Leads in Clinical Health Psychological Service, the Deputy Director of Psychological Professions and the Assistant Integrated Care Director, interpreting and cascading national and local policies, ensuring systematic governance of psychological practice within the Trust and working with senior colleagues to maintain systems for effective professional and managerial supervision and support.
13. To provide cover for Assistant Integrated Care Director roles and service managers when required.
Person Specification
Qualification
* Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology / advanced qualification in Psychotherapy
* Currently active registration with appropriate UK Statutory body (eg HCPC, BABCP, BACP, UKCP)
* Specialist qualification and training in a NICE endorsed psychological therapy (eg CBT)
Experience
* Proven extensive experience of working with people with a range of physical health conditions, as well as complex mental illness and complex emotional needs in a clinical health psychological setting
* Thorough knowledge of evidence based clinical practice in CHPS
* Extensive knowledge and experience of Human Resources practice, policies and procedures including organisational development/change.
* Proven management and leadership experience of managing clinical health psychological services
Management/supervision
* Experience of providing staff supervision and appraisal to both qualified and non-professionally aligned staff
* Expert knowledge of psychological approaches to physical health conditions as well as serious mental illness and complex emotional needs and of evidence based psychological treatments
* Specific managerial experience working within CHPS
* An awareness of NHS priorities, and specific specialist understanding of NHS priorities for CHPS
* Working in specialist NHS areas. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex, high technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals colleagues both within and outside the NHS. To include the preparation of highly complex clinical reports and assessments.
* Training and experience in NHS leadership courses
* Extensive knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues, issues concerning risk and highly complex mental health problems
* Extensive knowledge and experience with managing waiting lists, clinical harm reviews, high level risk reporting
* Specialist training and/or membership of NHS risk management groups
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
Deputy Director Psychological Professionals (B&D)
£74,290 to £85,601 a year plus HCAS per annum
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