Clinical lead Oldham Talking Therapies

Job responsibilities

To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, utilising information from a broad range of highly specialist psychological tool kits includingpsychometric and semi-structured clinical methodologies, where trained to do so.

Integrating highly specialist assessments into a psychological specialistformulation of complex and challenging service users drawing on a range of psychological theoretical perspectives.

To formulate and provide highly specialist and complex judgements based on a multi-factorial psychological understanding and current research and evidence-based practice.

To implement a range of specialist and highly complex psychologicaltreatment plans or management, for complex and challenging services users.

To evaluate, analyse and make judgements on the effectiveness of thecomplex psychological treatments for complex and challenging service users.

To make highly specialist adjustments to complex psychological caretreatments ensure that the most effective treatments are delivered.

To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highlycomplex factors concerning historical and development processes that have shaped the individual, family or group and following empirical researchfindings describing protective and risk factors of anti-social behaviours.

To undertake a range of highly specialist and complex psychologicaltherapeutic interventions, drawing on a range of psychological models and employing a range of modalities (individual, family and group) adapted and tailored to the needs of the individual and the context and the ongoing evaluation of the outcomes of the intervention. This will include ensuring the use of current research findings and best practice guidance.

To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist psychological consultation, guidance and ongoing support to other psychological therapist and the MDT in the formulation and appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects oftheir implementation in collaboration with other staff.

To undertake highly specialist psychologically based risk assessment and risk management for complex and or severe service users. Provide guidance and highly specialist formulations on the psychological aspects of risk to the MDT including medical staff.

To provide expertise and guidance to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological practice throughout service delivery with allpractitioners engaged within the services/teams including medical staff.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessmenttreatment and discharge of own caseload of complex and challenging service users managed by the talking therapies/Intermediate Mental Health Services within a reasonable time limit.

To organise own clinical time to enable the efficient provision of clinical time with a clinical caseload

To make decisions and clinical judgements involving a range of highlycomplex factors in the context of inadequate or unavailable informationequivocal research/evidence or where expert opinion differs.

To effectively communicate while having expert understanding and managing interpersonal skills barriers in complicated, difficult and contentious matters to service users, family/carers in a potentially emotive or hostile atmosphere.

To be able to sit frequently for substantial periods of time, through clinical case work, and while delivering clinical supervision, maintain intenseprolonged and frequent periods of concentration.highly distressing and or challenging with episodes of verbal/threat of physical aggression.

To ensure that all members of the clinical team/s have access to apsychologically based framework for the understanding and care of service users of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory.

To take substantial professional responsibility and exercise appropriatejudgement, in consultation with the Professional lead & clinical lead forcommunity pathway, with regard to their professional practice.

To participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of staff whenrequested by Line Manager.

To act as a lead specialist and advice Psychological Service Managers and Clinical lead for both the talking therapy and Intermediate Psychological Therapy (IPT) pathways on those aspects of the service where psychological and/ororganisational matters need addressing.

To take a lead in the development, evaluation and monitoring of the Trusts operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research and service evaluation.

To implement policy for complex and challenging service users within the talking therapiesService in collaboration with Service and Team Management.

To contribute to the safe use of specialist psychological equipment within services.

To contribute to the systematic governance of psychological practice within services, including maintaining systematic records and maintaining record keeping standards.

To advise and participate in appropriate professional psychology recruitment and the recruitment of other psychological therapies within services.

To serve as a representative of talking therapies in meetings and service events when requested by the Line Manager.

To contribute to the Healthy Minds Services management of waiting lists andprovide the talking therapies Service Coordinator with regular feedback andreports on referral trends, activity and waiting list.

To advise the talking therapies service manager on service developments within the community care pathway.

Teaching, Training and SupervisionTo provide highly specialist clinical supervision to members of the MDT

To provide clinical and professional supervision to qualified, assistantpsychologists and the MDT working within the IAPT and IntermediatePsychological Therapy (IPT) pathways.

To ensure the provision of specialist clinical placements for trainee clinical and other psychological therapists, ensuring they acquire the necessaryclinical and research skills, competencies and experience to contributeeffectively to good psychological practice and contributing to the assessment and evaluation of those competencies.

To provide specialist advice, consultation and training and (where agreed locally) clinical supervision to other care clinicians to support their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.

To provide pre and post qualification teaching of clinical and/or counsellingpsychology as appropriate.

To continue to develop expertise in the area of professional pre and post graduate training and clinical supervision.

To participate in appropriate supervision and CPD in order to maintainregistration with relevant professional bodies keeping up to dated withnational guidance and relevant research.Research and Service Evaluation

To take the lead and as a substantial part of role as a senior clinician, in theplanning and implementing systems for the evaluation, monitoring anddevelopment of the IAPT and IPT services through the deployment ofprofessional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuringincorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision ofhigh quality care.To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work, and in work with other members of the MDTincluding medical staff such as GPs. To undertake appropriate research and as a substantial part of role, provideresearch advice to other staff undertaking research within the community andPsychological Therapy services. To take a lead in multiple and complex project management, including auditand service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the community andacute care pathways to help develop and improve services. To work with national research programmes if required, ensuring that thepsychological therapies services with community and where appropriateacute care pathways provide data and fully co-operate with the programme. To collate present and disseminate research findings e.g. via oral and writtenreports, publication in peer-reviewed journals, etc.This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall pictureof the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be requiredfrom time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewedthrough the agreed process.

education/qualification

Essential

• Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence. Or an accredited membership with an appropriate psychological professional body and therapist with post graduate qualification
• Training in supervision of trainee psychologist and other professionals within the MDT

Desirable

• Accredited membership of an appropriate psychological therapy professional body.
• Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT/DBT, CAT, psycho-analytic therapies)
• Additional further training in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist/therapist with significant post qualification experience in a IAPT/IPT
• Experience in undertaking line management of psychological therapies staff
• Experience of working with service users who are complex and challenging within a community and or acute care pathway.
• Experience working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of settings including community, inpatients and acute care settings, primary care, residential.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary services within community and acute care pathways.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Substantial experience of providing clinical leadership within a defined service area
• Experience of effective and interpersonal and relationship management at a strategic level.

Desirable

• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Experience in developing research and development programmes within psychological therapy services
• Experience in teaching and training qualified psychological therapist and of non-psychology staff
• Experience of the application of psychological therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
• Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, sensitive or contentious information.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive, antagonistic or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychologica l resistance to potentially threatening information.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional including medical staff and non-professional groups
• High level skills in providing complex clinical and professional supervision including medical staff
• Knowledge of research design and methodology, including multivariate data analysis
• Keyboard skills and skills in using wordprocessing, e mail and internet software.
• Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative.
• Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed Regularly in management supervision.
• Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body
• Knowledge of contemporary legislation relating to the delivery of mental health and psychological services and its implications for Updated PS JME-195-21 Principal Clinical Psychologist both clinical practice and professional management.
• Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies.
• Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological services
• Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multiprofessional evaluation and audit of psychological services
• Ability to engage a range of professional and nonprofessional groups in co-operative working
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
• Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy and for computer work
• Ability to manage frequent periods of prolonged concentration in service users' sessions, meetings and during computing tasks
• Ability to move equipment (including case files, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
• Ability to work face to face with (potentially aggressive) patients in isolated settings (including domiciliary visits) without other team members being nearby and in accordance with the Trust Lone Worker Policy
• Ability to work to professional guidelines

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Familiarity with computing technology including spreadsheets and databases

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

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UK Registration

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