Job summary
This is a fast-paced and varied role, and we are seeking a proactive, expert practitioner and collaborative leader to ensure effective operational delivery and performance of the Occupational Health (OH) Psychology Service. Supporting the operational leadership of the mental health strand of the Trust's staff health and wellbeing programme (5 Ways to a Healthier YOU), the post-holder will lead the development, delivery and evaluation of a high-quality, evidence-based psychological service for staff.
The post-holder will oversee the establishment of the restructured Service, ensuring efficient use of resources, identifying new opportunities, and maintaining equitable access. Responsibilities include operational management, clinical governance, performance monitoring, risk management and service improvement.
Excellent communication skills will be essential for building productive relationships and strategic partnerships across the Trust, championing staff mental wellbeing and strengthening the Service's visibility.
The post-holder will act as a strategic lead and clinical role model, providing expert guidance, supervision and performance management to Practitioner Psychologists, alongside delivering psychological expertise to multidisciplinary initiatives and Trust-wide leadership forums.
We are looking for a motivated professional who is passionate about staff mental health and wellbeing, committed to best practice and confident in leading change.
Main duties of the job
Are you motivated by the opportunity to further develop your leadership and people management skills? We need a highly experienced senior Clinical Psychologist and exceptional people manager to effectively drive forward our restructured OH Psychology Service.
The post holder will be a strategic decision-maker, working closely as a member of the OH Senior Management Team to help shape the future direction and sustainability of the Service.
With extensive experience of managing psychological services and teams the post-holder will provide leadership, supervision and performance management for senior psychologists and other disciplines within the Service.
An expert practitioner, with broad clinical experience, the post-holder will provide and role-model evidence-based psychological interventions across a wide variety of client groups, exercising full clinical responsibility for patients' care and management.
The post-holder will actively participate in service improvement projects/initiatives, design/lead research activities and able to provide effective psychological concepts training.
With very effective communication skills, the post-holder will need to form excellent working relationships and strategic partnerships both within Therapies and across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring expert consultation and Service promotion cross-Trust.
About us
The Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Service (OHSWB) brings together specialist services including occupational health, health and safety, manual handling, staff wellbeing, psychological support and research. Part of the Workforce Directorate, OHSWB also leads the Trust's staff health and wellbeing programme. Research is supported through the London Centre for Work and Health, led by the OHSWB Research Team, with contribution to approved local and national projects.
TheShowing we care about you programme offers a wide range of benefits across work, personal and family life. Its HWB strand, 5 Ways to a Healthier YOU, provides self-referral for physiotherapy, dietetic and smoking-cessation support, as well as access to specialist psychological services. The wider offer includes mindfulness and stress-awareness training, the employee assistance programme, physical-activity initiatives, lunchtime walks, fitness classes, the Workplace Challenge and wellbeing roadshows.
The OH Psychology Service provides psychological therapies for staff referred via OHSWB, plus Trust-wide support, preventative initiatives and expert advice. Improving staff psychological wellbeing strengthens health, engagement and patient care. The Service offers both reactive support (therapy, debriefs) and proactive interventions (organisational insight, reflective practice, psychoeducation).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The OH Psychology Service maintains a strong emphasis on inclusive, highquality support, evidencebased practice and robust clinical governance.
Drawing on their leadership, servicemanagement experience and significant clinical expertise, the postholder will lead, develop and support the restructured OH Psychology Service. They will oversee operational delivery and performance, reviewing systems to ensure timely access to a range of evidencebased interventions and resources for staff.
The post-holder will be responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating a safe, effective and highquality psychological service, monitoring outcomes and audit data, sustaining the psychoeducation offer and establishing processes to support staff following traumatic events.
Working collaboratively, the postholder will oversee and advise Lead Practitioner Psychologists to ensure appropriate prioritisation and coordination of clinical and corporate group initiatives, supporting the development of sustainable systems of psychological care across service areas.
As an expert practitioner and communicator, they will rolemodel effective therapeutic practice, foster multidisciplinary collaboration and champion joint staff health and wellbeing initiatives across the Trust.
Further details are available in the job description, person specification and functional requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The OH Psychology Service maintains a strong emphasis on inclusive, highquality support, evidencebased practice and robust clinical governance.
Drawing on their leadership, servicemanagement experience and significant clinical expertise, the postholder will lead, develop and support the restructured OH Psychology Service. They will oversee operational delivery and performance, reviewing systems to ensure timely access to a range of evidencebased interventions and resources for staff.
The post-holder will be responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating a safe, effective and highquality psychological service, monitoring outcomes and audit data, sustaining the psychoeducation offer and establishing processes to support staff following traumatic events.
Working collaboratively, the postholder will oversee and advise Lead Practitioner Psychologists to ensure appropriate prioritisation and coordination of clinical and corporate group initiatives, supporting the development of sustainable systems of psychological care across service areas.
As an expert practitioner and communicator, they will rolemodel effective therapeutic practice, foster multidisciplinary collaboration and champion joint staff health and wellbeing initiatives across the Trust.
Further details are available in the job description, person specification and functional requirements.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology or Health Psychology
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Eligible for UKCP or BABCP accreditation
- Post-doctoral training in 1 or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice
- Qualification in occupational psychology
Previous Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of setting up, delivering and planning/managing psychological services
- Significant experience of leadership and professional management of teams and services
- Experience of application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of leading, supervising and managing senior Psychologists and other disciplines
- Experience of teaching/training a wide range of professionals in psychological concepts
- Experience of developing, implementing and applying qualitative and quantitative evaluation to support funding cases and team performance
- Experience of service planning and performance management
- Experience of setting up new services
Desirable
- Experience in occupational psychology
- Experience of representing the profession in local and national policy forums
- Track record of authoring and publishing of peer reviewed publications
- Experience participating in service improvement projects/initiatives including health and wellbeing projects
- Experience liaising with service commissioners
- Experience in delivering service Occupational Health settings
Skills
Essential
- Ability to maintain high degree of professionalism in face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Ability to supervise psychologists across grades and professional divisions using strong conceptual basis tailored to their professional, clinical and developmental needs
- Advanced knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others particularly CBT and behaviour management
- Proven strong leadership skills and ability to work effectively as a resource and role model for the service and multidisciplinary OH department
- Highly skilled communicator at both a written and oral level imparting complex highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence-based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care
- Ability to form excellent working relationships both within Therapies and across multidisciplinary teams
- Advanced skills providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Have advanced skills in research methods including highly developed knowledge and expertise in research design and methodology as appropriate for the field of clinical health psychology
- Commitment to service evaluation enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Additional Information
Essential
- Must be capable of identifying and employing, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
- Extensive experience of working within a multi-cultural environment
- Ability to regularly carry out clinical work with moderate / intense effort involved
- Ability to work in an environment where the work patterns are disrupted by frequent demands and competing priorities
Person Specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology or Health Psychology
- HCPC Registration as Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
- Eligible for UKCP or BABCP accreditation
- Post-doctoral training in 1 or more additional specialist areas of psychological practice
- Qualification in occupational psychology
Previous Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of setting up, delivering and planning/managing psychological services
- Significant experience of leadership and professional management of teams and services
- Experience of application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of leading, supervising and managing senior Psychologists and other disciplines
- Experience of teaching/training a wide range of professionals in psychological concepts
- Experience of developing, implementing and applying qualitative and quantitative evaluation to support funding cases and team performance
- Experience of service planning and performance management
- Experience of setting up new services
Desirable
- Experience in occupational psychology
- Experience of representing the profession in local and national policy forums
- Track record of authoring and publishing of peer reviewed publications
- Experience participating in service improvement projects/initiatives including health and wellbeing projects
- Experience liaising with service commissioners
- Experience in delivering service Occupational Health settings
Skills
Essential
- Ability to maintain high degree of professionalism in face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threat of physical abuse
- Ability to supervise psychologists across grades and professional divisions using strong conceptual basis tailored to their professional, clinical and developmental needs
- Advanced knowledge of psychological interventions, application and supervision of others particularly CBT and behaviour management
- Proven strong leadership skills and ability to work effectively as a resource and role model for the service and multidisciplinary OH department
- Highly skilled communicator at both a written and oral level imparting complex highly technical and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, and carers and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence-based research/guidelines into the development of a pathway of care
- Ability to form excellent working relationships both within Therapies and across multidisciplinary teams
- Advanced skills providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Have advanced skills in research methods including highly developed knowledge and expertise in research design and methodology as appropriate for the field of clinical health psychology
- Commitment to service evaluation enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Additional Information
Essential
- Must be capable of identifying and employing, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
- Extensive experience of working within a multi-cultural environment
- Ability to regularly carry out clinical work with moderate / intense effort involved
- Ability to work in an environment where the work patterns are disrupted by frequent demands and competing priorities
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).
