Are you a dynamic Consultant level Psychological Professional with experience in providing effective senior leadership of a range of Psychological Professionals within multi-professional settings? Do you have experience of leading large scale service developments or quality improvements with proven impact?
We are looking to recruit a Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions for our newly formed Children's Integrated Directorate, which incorporates CYP Mental Health Services, community physical health services, children's LD and neurodevelopmental services. This post will be part of the Directorate's Senior Leadership Team (SLT), operationally accounting to the Director of Operations and professionally to the Director of Psychological Professions. It is an exciting time to join the forming SLT at a time of transformation.
Psychological Professions staff are a large part of the workforce, highly valued in the Directorate. Strong psychological leadership is sought to implement a psychologically informed system model with our partners, supporting children and young people to access services using a Thrive informed approach and to bring applied psychological knowledge and experience to senior decision making.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will strategically support the delivery of excellent psychological services to children living in Coventry and Warwickshire via the development and leadership of the other established Consultant Psychologists and Psychotherapists in the Directorate and ensuring psychological informed models. You will oversee the governance of psychological practice delivered by multi-professional teams within Directorate services and partner agencies where we provide psychological services.
You will be a key influencer within the Trust and with external partners in the delivery of children's services across Coventry and Warwickshire and engage in a range of local, regional and national fora to support your work. You will drive research and innovation, supporting the promotion of this within and outside the Trust. You will work as part of the Trust Senior Psychological Leadership to deliver on Psychological Professions and Trust strategic priorities including multi-professional working and leadership at all levels of the organisation.
About us
To be successful, you will already hold a Consultant level position with a Psychological Profession. You will have considerable clinical, managerial and leadership experience and demonstrate highly specialist psychological knowledge about the service areas within the Directorate. You will have a thorough understanding of the national, regional and local context around these services and understand the many points of intersection of these services within the Trust and within our system partnerships. Ideally you will have led on the development of services for children and young people.
You will have excellent communication skills, be highly motivated, able to maintain focus and purpose, and respect and value team working at all levels.
We are looking for someone who embraces preventative, co-production and digital approaches to help us achieve the best possible psychological services for children and young people and their families.
Job description
You will join a warm, supportive and experienced Senior Leadership Team and group of Consultant Clinical Psychologists and Psychotherapists within the Directorate and you will be well-supported professionally by the Director of Psychological Professions and Services, the other Directorate Leads for Psychological Professions and Services and the wider Consultant Psychologist and Psychotherapists group. You will have regular clinical supervision and be supported to continue to professionally develop.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust we put people at our heart and this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
1. Relocation packages
2. Teaching opportunities
3. Bespoke research and innovation department leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism
4. Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle scheme, and more
5. Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
6. Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service and 24-hour confidential helpline
7. Staff networks and support groups
We are always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
We strongly encourage applicants to contact us for an informal conversation about the post, are happy to answer any questions and look forward to talking with you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Doctoral level psychological qualification or equivalent experience with HCPC registration
2. Extensive experience in a senior position
3. Evidence of continued professional development
4. Specific management and/or leadership training
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
1. Proven track record of achieving objectives
2. Excellent Clinical and Clinical Leadership skills
3. Excellent organisational and leadership skills
4. Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences, verbally and in written reports
5. Ability to present complex data to different audiences with different information needs
6. Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
7. Flexibility - adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within changing environment
Experience
Essential
1. Evidence of the development and application of competences for psychological services
2. Evidence of Clinical Leadership
3. Experience of managing change and associated behaviours
4. Evidence of outcomes from application of professional leadership
Employer details
Employer name
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
Address
Wayside House
Wilson Lane
Coventry
CV6 6NY
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