Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist (XR10)

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY

The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance (WY&HCA) brings together six acute Trusts (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate and District Foundation Trust) across the West Yorkshire and Harrogate and the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to share best practice and innovation, identifying and addressing unwarranted variation, integrating care pathways, collating intelligence to support providers to provide patient-centred high quality and cost effective care. This post is to continue the improvement work on psychologically informed care for people affected by cancer in the region through providing leadership and clinical expertise into the next phase.

Summary of Main Duties and Responsibilities

Provide leadership and clinical expertise to steer and oversee the project

Utilise links with key collaborators who might be service users, commissioners, clinical leads in primary care (cancer and mental health), Talking Therapies, CMHT, hospices or psycho-oncology services across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

Deliver high quality training and presentations to a range of audiences and stakeholders

Attend regular steering meetings with key stakeholders from the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance

Compile information on project work and collating useful models from elsewhere

Develop a high-quality patient-centred pathway and service specification. These will encompass patient experience, quality & safety, efficiency and effectiveness, commissioning perspectives and take account of existing contextual opportunities and constraints.

Develop strategic relationships and partnership working with service users, commissioners, clinical leads in primary care (cancer and mental health), IAPT, CMHT, hospices and psycho-oncology services across West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

Explore and compile information regarding existing provision and pathways including examples from outside West Yorkshire and Harrogate.

As appropriate, identify aspects of the pathway and service specification that may vary depending on local considerations

Ensure that relevant commissioners and provider networks are engaged in developing resources and endorse the findings.

To carry out other appropriate delegated duties as required by the Line Manager

Clinical

Use high-level professional knowledge of clinical assessment and intervention relevant to psycho-oncology to:

inform pathway development

inform and evaluate models for sharing skills and knowledge

inform the configuration of services & teams to ensure optimal care delivery

inform and evaluate models of supervision and quality assurance

This Post requires recent experience of the rest of the following Job Description:

The systematic provision of a high quality clinical psychology service , across sites and sectors of care by:

a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment, therapy and supervision

b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers

c) Developing systems to promote efficient and equitable delivery of care

d) Clinical and professional supervision of colleagues

e) Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service

f) Working autonomously in the delivery of these duties within professional guidelines, the evidence-based literature and the overall framework of the Team, Department of Clinical & Health Psychology and Trust policies and procedures.

1. JOB DIMENSIONS

Core:

Develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations

Develop oneself and others in areas of practice

Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security

Appraise, interpret and apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services

Contribute to improving quality

Promote equality and diversity.

Health and well-being:

Plan, develop and implement programmes to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing

Assess complex health and wellbeing needs and develop, monitor and review care plans to meet those needs

Implement aspects of a protection plan and review its effectiveness

Assess physiological and psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop, monitor and review related treatment plans

Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious illness.

Information and knowledge;

Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information.

General;

Plan, deliver and review interventions to enable people to learn and develop

Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products and equipment

Monitor expenditure

Plan, coordinate and monitor the delivery of services and/or projects

Plan, allocate and supervise the work of a team

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, as accredited by the British Psychological Society
• Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post-doctoral training or a combination of specialist short courses and an evidenced portfolio of supervised learning.
• Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (or other domain title as agreed).

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment
• Experience of teaching, training and provision of professional and clinical supervision.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice

Desirable

• Ability to engage people in psychological work who are experiencing complex biopsychosocial problems
• Ability to provide support and clinical supervision to multi-disciplinary team members.
• Drives service improvements, strong self-awareness with a desire to grow

Experience

Essential

• Assessed significant experience and competencies from working as a qualified clinical psychologist including significant post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.

Desirable

• Qualified experience of working with adults in a cancer or palliative care service.
• Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)