Caring for the health and wellbeing of our people is one of the key themes of our people strategy and a priority for the Trust. We are proud of the
comprehensive, preventative and responsive health and wellbeing programme offered to staff which focuses on 6 pillars of wellbeing: personal, psychological, physical, work, spiritual and financial wellbeing.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust to cover maternity leave.
Previous Applicants Need NOT apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a dynamic psychologist with experience in providing clinical psychology to staff and one who is dedicated and passionate about making a positive difference to workforce wellness.
The dedicated and reputable Staff Psychology Wellbeing Service offers individual and team/group high quality support, interventions and guidance, in addition to consultation and training to managers. The service has a broader remit of embedding wellbeing across the organisation and raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing.
The post holder will have a core focus on providing service leadership, wellbeing interventions, service development and implementing evidence-based initiatives to meet the psychological needs of the wider staff group across all Trust sites.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
The pandemic highlighted the importance of supporting staff wellbeing. In LGT, demand for wellbeing support has increased each year since the pandemic. Research suggests that improved staff psychological wellbeing leads to better workforce retention, improved patient care, enhanced staff engagement and safer, more compassionate services. LGT is committed to creating work environments that prioritise staff wellbeing.
The Trust has a dedicated and reputable Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service. The service offers individual support, team/group interventions and guidance, consultation and training to managers. The service has a broader remit of embedding wellbeing across the organisation and raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing. This involves developing Trustwide wellbeing initiatives and promoting mental health campaigns. The role also involves attendance at both internal and external meetings with key stakeholders.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
* Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (eligible for BPS chartered status and HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist).
* Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical Psychologist).
* Recognised supervision training, including in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
* Evidence of continuing training in a specialist area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a postgraduate diploma
* Evidence of continual professional development (CPD)
Desirable
* Undergraduate degree in psychology.
* Post doctoral training in a specific evidence-based therapy, such as CBT.
* Post doctoral CPD in staff wellbeing.
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist post qualification.
* Post qualification experience of psychological assessment and treatment of a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting with a range of mental health problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and across a range of settings (community, outpatient and inpatient).
* Experience of working in a staff psychological wellbeing service.
* Experience of providing individual and group/team wellbeing interventions to staff.
* Experience of providing teaching and training to other (non-psychology) professional groups.
* Post qualification experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
* Experience of supervising both qualified psychologists and trainee psychologists.
* Experience of working with diverse staff groups and of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
* Experience of service evaluation and outcome monitoring.
* Experience of implementing service development and improvement projects.
Desirable
* Experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
* Experience of leading a service.
* Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research.
Knowledge
Essential
* Skills in risk assessment and management and acting in a responsive and timely manner when presented with risk and safeguarding issues.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
* Skills as a senior clinician to undertake clinical leadership roles and tasks within a multidisciplinary context.
* Knowledge and understanding of at least two models of psychological therapy, including CBT.
* Advanced knowledge and skills in the use of complex psychological assessments, interventions and management and their application in specialist settings.
* Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team setting at a high level, hold a leadership role and contribute to effective team functioning.
* Confidence in public speaking and the ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Well-developed IT skills including good knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc), research data entry and analysis and the use of multimedia materials for presentations
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to mental health and areas related to staff wellbeing.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in complex/serious mental health problems (e.g. personality disorder, chronic illness, eating disorders).
Employer details
Employer name
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Address
University Hospital Lewisham
London
SE13 6LH
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