Job responsibilities
Role Purpose
To provide psychology
leadership and oversight across Vias services with a specific focus on the
organisations community portfolio, as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical
leadership team. Reporting to the organisations Executive Medical Director,
the role includes clinical management responsibility for psychological
professionals and associated trainees across Vias community services.
To work collaboratively
with internal and external colleagues to drive and deliver excellent core
practice, clinical modelling and innovation.
Key duties and
activities of the role
To provide excellent leadership, developmental and practice development
support and supervision.
To support and provide leadership to enable improvement against internal
and external clinical standards, including CQC KLOEs and NICE guidelines.
To support clinical and operational modelling across all adult and young
people service types, supporting the development and delivery of high quality,
high impact, value for money intervention and programme delivery.
Together with the People Team, to oversee psychology qualification and
registration monitoring and clinical training, including the development and
delivery of clinical training and the embedding of psychology trainee,
assistant and student roles, developing links with relevant clinical psychology
doctoral courses and/or counselling psychology courses.
To be responsible for developing and implementing a range of specialist
psychological interventions for people who use our services, their carers, and
groups, within and across teams, employed singly and in combination, adjusting
and refining psychological formulations as practice and experience demand, and
drawing upon different explanatory models to maintain a number of provisional
hypotheses.
To hold a small specialist caseload.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into
account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors
concerning historical, developmental and cultural processes and systems which
have shaped the individual, family or group.
To record, monitor and report on clinical work and communicate, in a
skilled and sensitive manner, complex clinical information, including
assessment, formulation, treatment plans and progress to a variety of
recipients, e.g. people who use our services, carers, other professionals,
formal panels, statutory and voluntary organisations, orally, in writing and
electronically.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to
other professionals, contributing directly to formulations and treatment plans;
including advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk
management.
To employ a broad theoretical knowledge of psychology and specialist
clinical skills to develop and support the psychological skills of others
through participation in the development and delivery of teaching, training and
supervision programmes.
To provide a psychological perspective and psychologically-based
framework for understanding and care for multidisciplinary team activities, including clinical care, team dynamics, team organisational systems,
promotional activities, within a wide range of settings including MDT
meetings, case discussions, team
meetings, and group supervision.
To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching,
training and supervision.
To develop and maintain the highest professional standards of practice
through active participation in internal and external CPD training and
development programmes, in consultation with management.
To provide leadership on risk, safeguarding and quality assurance,
including input identifying themes across audits and feeding into the audit
framework.
To work collaboratively with service and people leads to ensure
effective development and performance management of psychologists, including
assistants, trainees, students and placements, and to support skills
development across non clinical practitioners.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support
evidence -based practice in own work and work with other service and team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff
undertaking research. To organise and supervise research undertaken by
assistant and trainee psychologists where appropriate.
To maintain high quality dialogue and public relations with partner
agencies and commissioning bodies, supporting the development of effective
strategic relationships.
To undertake any other appropriate tasks that may be allocated by the
Executive Team.
Responsibilities for
all Via staff
To work
within the Via values of Care, Be human and Do the right thing. Support and collaborate with all colleagues
and engage with the wider organisation.
To promote
and deliver positive, inclusive and anti-discriminatory practices in line with Via
policies, professional and sector requirements, and legislative frameworks.
To act on
all Safeguarding concerns so that all statutory and organisational Safeguarding
responsibilities are met and that all learning is shared.
To observe
professional integrity and candour at all times and with all people.
To comply
with all organisational policies and procedures including GDPR and all Health
and Safety policy and guidance, taking responsibility for your own safety and
contributing to that of colleagues and others as applicable.
To regularly
participate in one-to-one, supervision sessions, objective setting and review,
training, practice and learning forums.
A commitment
to learning and to continuously improve everyones knowledge and skills.
To work
flexibly to enable the delivery of effective services. This may include
flexibility across sites or flexible hours and any other duties that may
reasonably be required of you within your role.
