Job summary
We are looking for a Director of Psychology and Trauma Informed Practice to join our Child & Family service line Solent NHS Trust.
The Child & Family service line provides a range of community-based nursing, therapy and mental health services to children and their families across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Our children's services aim to improve outcomes for children and their families by delivering well-led, safe, effective, caring and responsive services. They contribute to positive outcomes in areas such as:
- An individual's physical health
- An individual's psychological wellbeing
- An individual's adaptation to permanent or long-term differences
- The health of the populations we serve
The post holder will have post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (or it's equivalent) and be HCPC registered as a practitioner Psychologist.
In this role you will have responsibility for ensuring the best quality care and outcomes are delivered by the services in their division for the local population served, within the resources available, and in partnership with others.
You will contribute to the clinical leadership of the division, ensuring the clinical care pathways are enabled to deliver the national and local strategies. This will enable the achievement of high-quality performance and clinical outcomes across psychological interventions and trauma informed practice across all services provided for children and families.
This role will align to our Mental Health portfolio.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a close team with the Divisional Management Team. There is a recognition that clinical and strategic leadership needs to cross the Division directorate structures to ensure that there is pathway standardisation, consistency of clinical standards, practices and outcomes. The Director of Psychology and Trauma Informed Practice will work with other Divisions and corporate leadership to achieve this goal. In addition, there will be a clear focus on working across the strategic partnership in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in developing a clear partnership approach with local authority colleagues.
The post holder will play a key part in the leadership of the Trust and will have responsibilities across the organisation as well as with the Child and Family division.
There is strong national and local commitment to developing place based 'systems of care' whereby providers work together to improve health and care for the populations they serve. Our HIOW ICS Strategy clearly lays out the ambition in its strategic priorities for early intervention to ensure that every child has the best start in life. When we say communities, we mean both the local area people live in and also the communities that we know people identify with, such as those with the same interests, beliefs or way of live.
About us
Make a difference with us
If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.
We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.
To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access
To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work
To deliver the best value for money
Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.
We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.
We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
- HCPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of and demonstrable achievement in a Professional Lead/Consultant role within the care group
- Extensive experience of providing successful clinical and managerial leadership within multi service, multidisciplinary mental health provider context
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
- Experience of successful financial management, including management of costs and business development in large, complex organisations.
- Extensive experience of the successful professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists
- Experience of successfully representing the profession and/or services in local, regional and national policy forums, across services or at equivalent level.
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated speciality.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of successful partnership with commissioning agencies, partner providers and other financial stakeholders
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with multiple stakeholder in the re-design of services
- Experience of handling highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information on Trust related issues, including via media briefings or interviews, or in communicating complex or contentious information to staff. This might relate to serious incidents (including responding to media enquiries about patient deaths or homicides), media concerns about services in general, or requests for clinically informed. This will include the ability to communicate effectively with a hostile media or with staff who may be deeply unhappy about the service changes within your directorate that may affect staff personally
- Evidence of significant expertise in clinical risk management
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision at postgraduate/professional registrant and post-registration level
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK] as approved by the HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice relevant to the specific Care Group/Service.
- HCPC Registered as a practitioner Psychologist
Experience
Essential
- Experience of and demonstrable achievement in a Professional Lead/Consultant role within the care group
- Extensive experience of providing successful clinical and managerial leadership within multi service, multidisciplinary mental health provider context
- Measurable track record in involving and motivating staff to improve performance
- Experience of successful financial management, including management of costs and business development in large, complex organisations.
- Extensive experience of the successful professional management of qualified and pre-qualified applied psychologists
- Experience of successfully representing the profession and/or services in local, regional and national policy forums, across services or at equivalent level.
- Experience of the application of applied psychology in different cultural contexts and experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated speciality.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of successful partnership with commissioning agencies, partner providers and other financial stakeholders
- Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with multiple stakeholder in the re-design of services
- Experience of handling highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information on Trust related issues, including via media briefings or interviews, or in communicating complex or contentious information to staff. This might relate to serious incidents (including responding to media enquiries about patient deaths or homicides), media concerns about services in general, or requests for clinically informed. This will include the ability to communicate effectively with a hostile media or with staff who may be deeply unhappy about the service changes within your directorate that may affect staff personally
- Evidence of significant expertise in clinical risk management
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision at postgraduate/professional registrant and post-registration level
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
