Job summary
Consultant Clinical
Are you looking to shape the delivery of psychological services and interventions that are offered within a community mental health setting? Are you keen to work alongside multidisciplinary teams and the wider community mental health directorate to help transform services? If so, this is the role for you.....
This is a real opportunity for an enthusiastic and engaging, experienced Psychologist to be part of significant developments in community-based adult mental health services as part of the Community Transformation Programme. The post involves provision of clinical leadership and nurturance of the psychological mindedness of multi-disciplinary teams and leadership in the development of psychological interventions pathways as part of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies for people with Severe Mental Health Problems (IAPT- SMHP).If you are looking to progress your career by moving into a clinical leadership role and have an interest and passion to improve access to psychological interventions for people with complex mental health needs this is the ideal post for you. You will have the opportunity to receive excellent supervision and CPD opportunities and professional leadership support.
The successful candidate will be able to lead continued service improvement, promote a positive image of the Service and wider Trust, undertake formal research and provide clinical supervision and training to colleagues less experienced.
Main duties of the job
To lead on psychological intervention pathways developments across the Directorate to improve access to psychological interventions for people with complex mental health needs.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists, therapists and multi-disciplinary staff working with people with complex mental health needs.
To take a lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited to the Community Mental Health Directorate.
Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of clients with highly complex mental health conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
You will provide clinical leadership across the Directorate, work autonomously within professional guidelines and provide professional appraisal and identification of CPD needs.
Flexible and mixed remote/ in-building working opportunities available.
About us
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we'd like you to be part of it.
Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.' Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust's Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it's about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving
Job description
Job responsibilities
Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of care plans with clients and/or their carers,
Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients with complex mental health difficulties, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and assessments, formulates care plans and makes decisions about treatment options including supporting other clinical staff to create appropriate therapy care plans and decision making where referral on is appropriate, including liaising with other services to ensure timely handover.
Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.
Leads decision-making by planning and mapping processes/interventions with members of the team to determine the most appropriate treatment modality or service for clients including allocation of casework to therapists and care planning via line management of staff.
Meet frequently with IAPT managers to ensure a smooth and client-centred pathway for service users to receive intervention from the appropriate level of staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of care plans with clients and/or their carers,
Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients with complex mental health difficulties, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
Undertakes highly skilled evaluations and assessments, formulates care plans and makes decisions about treatment options including supporting other clinical staff to create appropriate therapy care plans and decision making where referral on is appropriate, including liaising with other services to ensure timely handover.
Provides highly specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.
Leads decision-making by planning and mapping processes/interventions with members of the team to determine the most appropriate treatment modality or service for clients including allocation of casework to therapists and care planning via line management of staff.
Meet frequently with IAPT managers to ensure a smooth and client-centred pathway for service users to receive intervention from the appropriate level of staff
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Must have substantial experience of Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.
Knowledge
Essential
- doctoral level knowledge of Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential
- Must have substantial experience of Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.
Knowledge
Essential
- doctoral level knowledge of Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
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).
