Job summary
30 hours per week. A
24-month fixed term position acting as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Regional Mental Health &
Wellbeing Practitioner Lead.
We
are looking for an innovative candidate who will lead in the development of
this new clinical network and will be key to developing both the role and
network in accordance with regional stakeholders. They will provide clinical
leadership and champion the MHWP network and will also advise on the further
development of MHWP supervision capacity within the southwest region alongside
local providers.
We
are looking for someone who has experience of providing, developing, and
managing low level CBT interventions and care to service users with psychosis, bipolar
and other severe mental health problems and for communicating CBT formulations
and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues. You may have
responsibility for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and
strategies for the delivery of MHWP clinical supervision and a thriving
regional MHWP network. This will help in assisting other organisations to
develop MHWP strategy locally.
The
postholder will also be expected to directly supervise trainee MHWPs within
Livewell.
The
hours of the role are negotiable but are expected to be between 2 and 4 days
per week. This is a fixed term post for 24 months and candidates may be
Seconded from their current posts or appointed via a MOU agreement.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be expected:
To support the development and provision of a Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP) clinical and supervisory network across the southwest area
To provide clinical leadership and champion the MHWP network within the southwest
To audit then increase MHWP supervision capacity within the southwest
To provide supervision to MHWP supervisors across the region where needed
To provide clinical advice to constituent organisations (STPs, commissioners and providers) in relation to MHWP
To communicate the clinical networks focus on quality and outcomes from national through to local level, allowing the local network to feed ideas and input back to NHS England (as appropriate).
To provide leadership for improving and safeguarding the quality of MHWP clinical work
- To raise awareness of training courses that increase the capacity, and especially the supervision capacity of the MHWP workforce to deliver evidenced based therapies.
To foster a culture of multi-professional engagement with MHWP. This will include collaborating and engaging with clinical colleagues to share best practice and deliver ambitious programmes of quality improvement.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- As a lead specialist, to be responsible for clinical supervision for MHWP practitioners across the southwest.
- As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing, and managing low level CBT interventions to clients with psychosis and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.
- Responsible for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of specialist MHWP supervision and a thriving regional MHWP network.
- The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide MHWP leadership.
- Responsible for providing professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other MHWP, trainee clinical psychologists on placement and trainees in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.
- Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the region, on the MHWP role, their interventions and evaluation.
- Responsible for developing, organising, and delivering CPD and post-qualification teaching for MHWP staff in the southwest region.
- Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery.
- Responsible for working within the Guidelines of the BPS/BABCP and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest.
- Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the Psychotherapy Service manager.
- Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the BABCP requirements for CPD.
- Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments for the MHWP role.
Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives
- policies, and NICE guidelines in relation to the work.
Clinical Skills:
To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.
To engage clients with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse.
To work with, and support others to work with clients with complex trauma, emotional disorders, and psychosis for whom CBT expertise is required in order to provide appropriate assessment, testing, rehabilitation and/or maintain placement, contributing to the liaison with commissioners and funding managers to provide feedback and advice on such clients progress and ongoing needs.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources.
To be able to complete appropriate formal assessments with complex clients.
To be able to communicate complex CBT formulations and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood.
To prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports where necessary.
To have relevant knowledge of and skills within several cognitive and behavioural models of understanding and managing distress including, for example, third-wave, radical behavioural and Beckian models
To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal.
To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all CBT staff.
Policy and Service Development:
To be responsible for the promotion and implementation of specialist MHWP services within the southwest region.
To lead on other service development projects as required by the service manager/management team.
To share in the monitoring of expenditure within the service as it impacts on theperformance of the trainee MHWP and associated staff. To offer advice to the management team in regard to the most efficient use of resources and the appropriate CPD needs of staff.
To advise statutory bodies (e.g. social services, education, health, probation, criminal justice system) and the independent sector on the utility of MHWP in their teams and to plan and implement services accordingly.
To appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve MHWP services.
To be responsible for the planning and development of specialist MHWP services across the southwest.
To attend the MHWDU service meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources:
To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to MHWP, trainee MHWP and trainee clinical psychologists on placement within the region.
To be responsible for the supervision of the work of trainee MHWP within Livewell.
To line manage trainee MHWP and undertake appraisals
To teach on local postgraduate courses in low-level CBT interventions for psychosis and biploar if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required.
To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and Development:
To conduct and supervise research and audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of MHWP interventions.
To initiate and implement project management techniques and tools to achieve completion of evaluations, audits, research, and service developments.
To prepare and present information from audits, evaluations, and research to professional audiences within and outside the organisation.
To prepare papers for publication based on audit, evaluation, research, and development work.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with team members in the service.
Information Technology:
To be able to use a range of software packages including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and SPSS.
To be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirement of policies covering Care Programme Approach and its successor.
To ensure that electronic CPA (and its successor) and System One and other relevant computer data bases are kept up to date.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- As a lead specialist, to be responsible for clinical supervision for MHWP practitioners across the southwest.
- As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing, and managing low level CBT interventions to clients with psychosis and bipolar and for communicating CBT formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.
- Responsible for planning, organising, auditing, and developing policy and strategies for the delivery of specialist MHWP supervision and a thriving regional MHWP network.
- The postholder would be expected to develop specialist responsibilities and provide MHWP leadership.
- Responsible for providing professional support, guidance, and clinical supervision to other MHWP, trainee clinical psychologists on placement and trainees in other parts of the service as required by their level of experience.
- Responsible for providing specialist consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other non-psychology staff within the region, on the MHWP role, their interventions and evaluation.
- Responsible for developing, organising, and delivering CPD and post-qualification teaching for MHWP staff in the southwest region.
- Responsible for initiating and maintaining research and development projects relevant to furthering both clinical knowledge and service evaluation and delivery.
- Responsible for working within the Guidelines of the BPS/BABCP and for adhering to policies and procedures of Livewell Southwest.
- Responsible for participating in an annual appraisal with the Psychotherapy Service manager.
- Responsible for continuing professional development (CPD) in line with the annual appraisal Professional Development Plan PDP, the Knowledge and Skills Framework KSF and the BABCP requirements for CPD.
- Responsible for keeping aware of and being knowledgeable about current developments for the MHWP role.
Responsible for keeping up to date with legislation, national directives
- policies, and NICE guidelines in relation to the work.
Clinical Skills:
To possess and practice a very high level of communication and relationship skills in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening behaviour can be expected.
To engage clients with complex presentations in a therapeutic alliance and maintain this through periods of doubt and relapse.
To work with, and support others to work with clients with complex trauma, emotional disorders, and psychosis for whom CBT expertise is required in order to provide appropriate assessment, testing, rehabilitation and/or maintain placement, contributing to the liaison with commissioners and funding managers to provide feedback and advice on such clients progress and ongoing needs.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models, highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and available resources.
To be able to complete appropriate formal assessments with complex clients.
To be able to communicate complex CBT formulations and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues and to family members or carers, as appropriate, so that they are understood.
To prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports where necessary.
To have relevant knowledge of and skills within several cognitive and behavioural models of understanding and managing distress including, for example, third-wave, radical behavioural and Beckian models
To be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be actively self-harming or suicidal.
To ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines for all CBT staff.
Policy and Service Development:
To be responsible for the promotion and implementation of specialist MHWP services within the southwest region.
To lead on other service development projects as required by the service manager/management team.
To share in the monitoring of expenditure within the service as it impacts on theperformance of the trainee MHWP and associated staff. To offer advice to the management team in regard to the most efficient use of resources and the appropriate CPD needs of staff.
To advise statutory bodies (e.g. social services, education, health, probation, criminal justice system) and the independent sector on the utility of MHWP in their teams and to plan and implement services accordingly.
To appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve MHWP services.
To be responsible for the planning and development of specialist MHWP services across the southwest.
To attend the MHWDU service meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources:
To be responsible for providing clinical supervision and professional support and guidance as required to MHWP, trainee MHWP and trainee clinical psychologists on placement within the region.
To be responsible for the supervision of the work of trainee MHWP within Livewell.
To line manage trainee MHWP and undertake appraisals
To teach on local postgraduate courses in low-level CBT interventions for psychosis and biploar if required and on pre and post qualification professional courses for other disciplines represented within Livewell Southwest as required.
To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development - CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and Development:
To conduct and supervise research and audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of MHWP interventions.
To initiate and implement project management techniques and tools to achieve completion of evaluations, audits, research, and service developments.
To prepare and present information from audits, evaluations, and research to professional audiences within and outside the organisation.
To prepare papers for publication based on audit, evaluation, research, and development work.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with team members in the service.
Information Technology:
To be able to use a range of software packages including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and SPSS.
To be responsible for maintaining appropriate service statistics and records of work within the requirement of policies covering Care Programme Approach and its successor.
To ensure that electronic CPA (and its successor) and System One and other relevant computer data bases are kept up to date.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Currently working as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with adults with psychosis, bipolar and other complex MH problems OR meets the eligibility criteria as advised by a National Assessor (eg minimum of 6 years post-qualification experience)
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and/or clinical supervision on psychosis and complex mental health problems.
- Relevant experience of working within secondary care multidisciplinary services for adult clients with psychosis eg EIP, AOT, CMHT
- Relevant experience of offering consultation and advice to staff groups supporting vulnerable clients with psychosis.
- Post-qualification experience of six years or more
Desirable
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Ongoing links to MHWP training courses
- Clinical leadership within CMHT
- Formal training in supervision of other staff and psychologists
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-graduate certificate or diploma in CBT for Psychosis
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctoral level.
- Eligible for accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor in Psychotherapy with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex situations involving a range of options to make a decision about an appropriate course of action or solution to a problem.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with service users
- Relevant skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and professionals both within and outside the NHS.
- Relevant knowledge of the theory and practice of low-level psychological interventions for psychosis.
- Knowledge of legislation and national standards and guidelines that relate to psychosis.
Personal
Essential
- Enthusiasm for CBT for Psychosis
- Ability to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Ability to deal with patients and carers who may be distressed, angry, confrontational or violent.
- Ability to work within teams and motivate others.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods during supervision, assessments, patient interviews, case conferences.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional situations.
- Warmth, empathy & integrity.
- Ability to work autonomously & as part of a team.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Currently working as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with adults with psychosis, bipolar and other complex MH problems OR meets the eligibility criteria as advised by a National Assessor (eg minimum of 6 years post-qualification experience)
- Experience of teaching, training and providing professional and/or clinical supervision on psychosis and complex mental health problems.
- Relevant experience of working within secondary care multidisciplinary services for adult clients with psychosis eg EIP, AOT, CMHT
- Relevant experience of offering consultation and advice to staff groups supporting vulnerable clients with psychosis.
- Post-qualification experience of six years or more
Desirable
- Record of having published in peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Ongoing links to MHWP training courses
- Clinical leadership within CMHT
- Formal training in supervision of other staff and psychologists
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
- Post-graduate certificate or diploma in CBT for Psychosis
Desirable
- Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctoral level.
- Eligible for accreditation as a Clinical Supervisor in Psychotherapy with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret highly complex situations involving a range of options to make a decision about an appropriate course of action or solution to a problem.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management with service users
- Relevant skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families and professionals both within and outside the NHS.
- Relevant knowledge of the theory and practice of low-level psychological interventions for psychosis.
- Knowledge of legislation and national standards and guidelines that relate to psychosis.
Personal
Essential
- Enthusiasm for CBT for Psychosis
- Ability to work under pressure and set priorities.
- Ability to deal with patients and carers who may be distressed, angry, confrontational or violent.
- Ability to work within teams and motivate others.
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods during supervision, assessments, patient interviews, case conferences.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional situations.
- Warmth, empathy & integrity.
- Ability to work autonomously & as part of a team.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
