Job summary
Looking for a new role which is very different and provides opportunity to provide clinical and strategic leadership for complex discharge pathways? Interested in developing your systemic skills? Then this could be the role for you!
About Us:
We are developing a new psychologically minded, multi-disciplinary team that supports young people aged 13 -18 as part of the West Midlands CAMHS Provider Collaborative (WMCPC). The team includes psychology and nursing.
We work with other professionals involved with young people in Tier 4, who maybe escalating through the inpatient system due to misdirected care. We work systemically with these professional and family networks to consider how the young persons needs can be met in the community.
The Intensive Outreach Case Management Service (IOCMS) are looking for principal clinical psychologist to provide complex and clinically viable psychological perspectives to discharge planning for young people in tier 4 services. The IOCMS team are positioned to assist with the clinical pathways for those young people who are deemed to require increased levels of restriction to provide stability. If you've got the experience of managing complex discharge pathways then this could be a role for you!
If you've got the experience of managing complex discharge pathways then this could be a role for you!
Please contact nicholas.lea@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
Expert support for young people challenged by risk symptoms and behavior. Supporting or managing clinical care in partnership with other professionals, families, and carers and about recognising the need for, and promoting.
Research and data production within the context of the young people who are admitted to hospital whose risk increases and behavior deteriorates.
Working as an autonomous clinical leader with the ability to traverse inpatient MDT's and influence thinking. This is in the context of systemic barriers when the only option for inpatient teams requiring escalation in restrictions to manage risk
Wider assessment and formulation of individual needs in relation to establishing appropriate and alternate pathways to tier 4
Abstract and dynamic evidence based planning support and advice to services whose planning involves
Effective referral and coordination of safe and appropriate community pathways
Effective communication and advocacy for community pathways that may differ to MDTs views or recommendations
The Intensive Outreach Case Management Service (IOCMS) are looking for principal clinical psychologist to provide complex and clinically viable psychological perspectives to discharge planning for young people in tier 4 services. The IOCMS team are positioned to assist with the clinical pathways for those young people who are deemed to require increased levels of restriction to provide stability.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Womens and Childrens NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate or equivalent in Clinical Psychology.
- Significant Post-graduate level or above training and qualification in NHS leadership / management or equivalent leadership management experience
- Registration with appropriate body (eg HCPC, ACP, BACP, AFT)
- Evidence of post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with particular focus on trauma and attachment
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential
- Significant recent experience of working with young people aged up to 25 with complex trauma and forensic presentations within the children in care system and community settings applying trauma informed approaches and models
- Recent knowledge and practical experience of applying specialist models of psychological practice relevant to the specialty and setting
- Experience of providing effective strategic leadership with a significant breadth of responsibility
- Experience of delivering significant quality improvements and service development
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy and specialist services
- Experience in teaching and training of trainee and post-qualification psychological therapists, and of non-psychological staff
- High level of effective practical and theoretical skill surrounding discharge pathways for young people who may have or display behaviors concurrent with the diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation with a range of common and complex mental health needs
- Experience of representing psychological services in local and regional policy forums
- Experience of influence at strategic levels within and outside the organisation
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
- Experience in leading in multidisciplinary services
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Skills for planning aspects of service delivery across multiple sites including secondary care practices, acute care settings and home-based treatments.
- Strategic planning, development and commissioning of psychological therapies services within and across organisation.
- Able to think strategically and to consider the wider scene for developing specialist services long term and planning.
- Ability to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems based upon appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods based on evidence of efficacy.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of working with a wide variety of patient groups within Mental Health services, across the full range of clinical severity and complexity, in a range of settings, particularly in relation to children in care
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing patients with enduring mental health problems, as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions.
- Highly developed knowledge and experience at a senior level within the specialist pathway in which this post will be based.
- Highly developed knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of the psychological professions
- Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for psychological therapies and services generally.
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally
- Knowledge of working with a wide variety of patient groups within Mental Health services, across the full range of clinical severity and complexity, in a range of settings
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing patients with enduring mental health problems, as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions
- Highly developed knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of the psychological professions
Desirable
- Record of having published research/review papers in peer reviews, academic, or professional journals, and/or books
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to supervise, support and co-ordinate the work of psychology/psychological therapy colleagues within the team/service.
- Able to manage change through influence, persuasion and good interpersonal relationships.
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
- Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
- Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Other Requirements
Essential
- To be able to fulfill the travel requirements of this city wide community post
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate or equivalent in Clinical Psychology.
- Significant Post-graduate level or above training and qualification in NHS leadership / management or equivalent leadership management experience
- Registration with appropriate body (eg HCPC, ACP, BACP, AFT)
- Evidence of post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice with particular focus on trauma and attachment
Knowledge & Nature of Experience
Essential
- Significant recent experience of working with young people aged up to 25 with complex trauma and forensic presentations within the children in care system and community settings applying trauma informed approaches and models
- Recent knowledge and practical experience of applying specialist models of psychological practice relevant to the specialty and setting
- Experience of providing effective strategic leadership with a significant breadth of responsibility
- Experience of delivering significant quality improvements and service development
- Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy and specialist services
- Experience in teaching and training of trainee and post-qualification psychological therapists, and of non-psychological staff
- High level of effective practical and theoretical skill surrounding discharge pathways for young people who may have or display behaviors concurrent with the diagnosis of personality disorder
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment, intervention and evaluation with a range of common and complex mental health needs
- Experience of representing psychological services in local and regional policy forums
- Experience of influence at strategic levels within and outside the organisation
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
- Experience in leading in multidisciplinary services
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential
- Skills for planning aspects of service delivery across multiple sites including secondary care practices, acute care settings and home-based treatments.
- Strategic planning, development and commissioning of psychological therapies services within and across organisation.
- Able to think strategically and to consider the wider scene for developing specialist services long term and planning.
- Ability to formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients' mental health problems based upon appropriate conceptual framework of the problems and employing methods based on evidence of efficacy.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of working with a wide variety of patient groups within Mental Health services, across the full range of clinical severity and complexity, in a range of settings, particularly in relation to children in care
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing patients with enduring mental health problems, as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions.
- Highly developed knowledge and experience at a senior level within the specialist pathway in which this post will be based.
- Highly developed knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of the psychological professions
- Highly developed knowledge of key NHS policy developments for psychological therapies and services generally.
- Working knowledge of the practices and approaches of other key disciplines, professions and agencies involved in the care and management network, including medical, employment, social, educational and criminal justice systems. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the specialism and mental health generally
- Knowledge of working with a wide variety of patient groups within Mental Health services, across the full range of clinical severity and complexity, in a range of settings
- Well-developed knowledge of psychological issues facing patients with enduring mental health problems, as well as evidence-base for psychological interventions
- Highly developed knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of the psychological professions
Desirable
- Record of having published research/review papers in peer reviews, academic, or professional journals, and/or books
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential
- Ability to supervise, support and co-ordinate the work of psychology/psychological therapy colleagues within the team/service.
- Able to manage change through influence, persuasion and good interpersonal relationships.
- Skills in providing advice and consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development
- Joint working with others, e.g. patients, colleagues in the delivery of high quality healthcare
- Build positive working relationships, respecting and valuing others, being helpful and inclusive
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Other Requirements
Essential
- To be able to fulfill the travel requirements of this city wide community post
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
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Remote, Printing House Street, Regional
Printing House Street
Birmingham
B4 6DF
Employer's website
https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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