Job summary
Due to the retirement of the current post holder we are looking for a Head of Clinical Psychology to work with and lead a team of dynamic, committed and forward thinking Psychologists across a range of sub specialist interests.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust during an exciting time, focused on delivery Trust strategy to improve services for our People, Population and Partnerships, utilising improvement methodology to focus on key areas to improve the quality of services we provide.
The team comprises a range of practitioners with a wide range of experience and expertise. There is also a requirement to work with a range of clinical stakeholders and services and so this role is wide reaching in its objectives. The successful candidate will need to be able to evidence a background of strong and successful leadership skills and behaviours in order to meet the personal specification of this role.
Main duties of the job
Lead and manage the strategic development and delivery of high quality and specialist psychologist services at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide professional leadership for the Psychology Service at SFT using professional judgement gained from extensive professional, organisational, clinical, and managerial knowledge.
Represent SFT and the psychological professions locally, regionally and nationally as appropriate, working with other Psychology leads within BSW to develop patient centred integrated pathways of care.
Work with the Divisional Management Team and Psychology Service colleagues to formulate long term strategic plans for Psychology Services at SFT and across BSW that are aligned to Trust vision, strategic and breakthrough objectives.
Embed principles of Improving Together methodology with Psychology Services to ensure quality improvement is at the core of service delivery.
Manage a highly complex patient caseload, delivering evidence based and highly specialist psychological therapeutic interventions for people accessing the service.
About us
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, particularly applicable to clinical psychology in medical settings.
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Qualification in supervision
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist at a Consultant level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across hospital services including inpatient and outpatient care, including liaison with community services and primary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions.
- Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
- Experience of line managing a team with evidence of managing performance and disciplinary issues.
- Evidence of initiating and engaging in audit and research and a commitment to using evidence based practice to inform the delivery and development of services.
- Experience in a senior leadership role, leading service delivery and design. To include experience and knowledge of monitoring and evaluating service delivery and establishing networks to support service development.
- Experience in operational management or strategic planning at local or regional level.
- NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies
- Experience of managing a budget and delivery of cost improvement plans
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of application of psychology within different contexts (e.g. cultural)
- Experience of working with NHS planning forums.
- Experience of conducting research of a high a standard.
- Experience of working with regional and national groups to inform good practice
Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively including communicating highly complex clinical information to patients, families and other clinicians
- Ability to interpret general clinical, professional and organisational policies and to use own initiative to establish how they should be applied.
- Ability to deal with hostility in situations of highly complex psychological presentations
- Ability to design and implement policy for people and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity
- Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions.
- Evidence of significant post qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Knowledge of legislation and national service guidelines and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the service.
- Ability to manage change effectively.
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Ability to apply the principles of clinical governance in specialist area.
- Ability to identify and prioritise areas for service development.
- Ability to identify and prioritise areas for service development. Ability to represent the service, give formal presentations and influence outcomes at clinical network board level.
Desirable
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
- Knowledge of local NHS structures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS).
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, particularly applicable to clinical psychology in medical settings.
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist.
Desirable
- Qualification in supervision
- Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered practitioner psychologist at a Consultant level
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across hospital services including inpatient and outpatient care, including liaison with community services and primary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
- Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions.
- Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations.
- Experience of line managing a team with evidence of managing performance and disciplinary issues.
- Evidence of initiating and engaging in audit and research and a commitment to using evidence based practice to inform the delivery and development of services.
- Experience in a senior leadership role, leading service delivery and design. To include experience and knowledge of monitoring and evaluating service delivery and establishing networks to support service development.
- Experience in operational management or strategic planning at local or regional level.
- NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies
- Experience of managing a budget and delivery of cost improvement plans
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users as co-producers.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of application of psychology within different contexts (e.g. cultural)
- Experience of working with NHS planning forums.
- Experience of conducting research of a high a standard.
- Experience of working with regional and national groups to inform good practice
Knowledge
Essential
- Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex/sensitive information effectively including communicating highly complex clinical information to patients, families and other clinicians
- Ability to interpret general clinical, professional and organisational policies and to use own initiative to establish how they should be applied.
- Ability to deal with hostility in situations of highly complex psychological presentations
- Ability to design and implement policy for people and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity
- Well-developed highly specialised knowledge of the theory and practice of psychological models and therapies/interventions.
- Evidence of significant post qualification continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Knowledge of legislation and national service guidelines and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the service.
- Ability to manage change effectively.
- Excellent leadership skills.
- Ability to apply the principles of clinical governance in specialist area.
- Ability to identify and prioritise areas for service development.
- Ability to identify and prioritise areas for service development. Ability to represent the service, give formal presentations and influence outcomes at clinical network board level.
Desirable
- Awareness of ethnic diversity issues.
- Knowledge of local NHS structures.
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
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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).
