South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don't need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
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Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job overview
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
0.6 WTE Staff support and Women's Health Pathway - Permanent role
This post is an opportunity for an experienced and passionate clinical health psychologist to work across two established and effective services to deliver excellent psychological provision for staff and patients and to lead on the strategic development of each service.
The staff support service offers 1-1 and team-based approaches with the opportunity to contribute strategically to whole Trust developments in health and wellbeing. There is expertise in trauma intervention and scope to further develop trauma informed care across settings. There is a commitment to providing compassionate and skilled psychological care to a diverse workforce, including opportunities to work with the equality, diversity and inclusion leads to address discrimination, promote anti-racist practice and develop psychological safety. The post holder would provide leadership to the staff, engage with Trust stakeholders to develop services and co-create the strategic aims for the team.
The women's health pathway includes input to the maternity service, supporting patients presenting with birth trauma, secondary tokophobia and service related distress. We are working within and across services to develop input for neonates and the post holder would lead on further scoping and business cases to support the midwifery and maternity staff team.
Main duties of the job
1. To take the lead in the Strategic development and systematic provision of high quality, specialised clinical psychology programmes of care and advice to patients and staff working throughout South Warwickshire, covering all physical health specialties with a specific focus on the Staff Support service and Women's Health pathway.
2. To propose service changes and policy for all clinicians providing psychological care (MDT etc.) in the general patient group.
3. To provide highly specialist clinical health psychology assessment and therapy across the health economy for patient groups as negotiated with the Director.
4. To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on patient care to colleagues and carers.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise individual responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the patient groups described.
6. To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within various patient specialties as negotiated with the Director.
7. To support workforce development by training and supervision.
8. To be responsible for the allocation of resources, line and operational management of the clinicians working with the general patient care delivery.
9. To provide highly specialist teaching for the Birmingham, Warwick & Coventry University Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training courses and other training providers.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, and training in the supervision of other psychologists.
* HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist
Desirable criteria
* Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working within Clinical Heath Psychology services with clinical experience in at least two specialties (For example Oncology, Cardiology etc).
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of service development and leading a service.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* Over seven years post qualification experience.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Proven leadership skills.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists.
* Experience of representing the profession in local policy forums.
Skills
Essential criteria
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* High level of 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.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant client group and the healthcare system.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* Compassionate and kind values driven approach to patient care.
* Communicates openly, honestly transparently and professionally and actively promotes team working and building forming strong working relationships.
* Drives service improvements, strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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