Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Band 8c Lead for Psychological Psychosis Pathway

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Job summary

Consultant Clinical Psychologist or Consultant Psychological Therapist: We are looking for a highly experienced psychological professional with excellent leadership, clinical, organisational and project management skills to further develop and lead the psychological therapies Psychosis Pathway within the Mental Health Directorate. You will be part of a wider psychology and psychological therapies leadership team within an organisation that values and embraces psychological approaches and psychological professions.

Your role will be to lead this established pathway, which promotes recovery-oriented and evidence-based approaches for people presenting with psychosis within the Directorate of Mental Health and across the wider healthcare system.

You will also provide direct line management to the psychological staff who work directly into this pathway (see organisational chart) and be based with one of these services according to service need.

As part of LPTs Step Up to Great Mental Health programme of improvement, we are working with stakeholders to improve the service we offer across our mental health services. You will contribute to this transformation of service organisation and delivery.

Please contact: Dr Jo Scordellis, Directorate Lead for Psychology and Psychological Therapy and/or Dr Debbie Tombs, current lead for the Psychological Psychosis Pathway: 0116 295 3098, jo-anne.scordellis@nhs.net, debbie.tombs@nhs.net.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to lead and continue to build on this established accessible and psychologically informed pathway, which promotes recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and evidence-based approaches for psychosis within the Directorate of Mental Health and across the wider healthcare system in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Working closely with senior managers, other pathway leads, and service users, you will be responsible for ensuring high quality systems of training, supervision and governance are in place to support and integrate the delivery of a stepped approach to psychological practice for psychosis across the Directorate of Mental Health community and inpatient services. Working alongside other lead professionals, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of an approach to audit and evaluate the pathway.

You will provide direct line management and leadership to the psychological staff (applied psychologists and psychological therapists) who work directly into this pathway. You will manage the delegated budget for psychology and psychological therapy in services where the pathway is the dominant framework, currently: our At Risk Mental State Service, Early Intervention for Psychosis Service (PIER) and Assertive Outreach. You will hold a clinical caseload and be based with one of these services according to service need at the time of your appointment.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

16 August 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£70,417 to £81,138 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-23-0559

Job locations

OSL House

Leicester

LE19 1XU

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like further information on the duties and responsibilities of the role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

If you like what you've read and would like further information on the duties and responsibilities of the role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience of and the ability to clinically lead, supervise and evaluate the practice of multidisciplinary staff.
An understanding of the stigma and exclusion faced by people with mental health problems and a commitment to ensuring that services with LPT challenge such disadvantage.
Demonstrable experience of leading and managing projects and change within an organisation.
Experience of working in partnership and in consultative ways with service users and carers.

Qualifications

Essential

Core qualification as a Clinical / Applied Psychologist or a Mental Health Professional with further Psychological Therapy qualification at masters level or above. Current registration with appropriate regulatory (for core professional) and registered professional bodies (e.g. HCPC, NMC BABCP, UKCP).
Education in relevant subject (clinical and/or leadership/management) to doctoral level or equivalent with supplementary training/experience, including evidence of advanced research skills.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience of and the ability to clinically lead, supervise and evaluate the practice of multidisciplinary staff.
An understanding of the stigma and exclusion faced by people with mental health problems and a commitment to ensuring that services with LPT challenge such disadvantage.
Demonstrable experience of leading and managing projects and change within an organisation.
Experience of working in partnership and in consultative ways with service users and carers.

Qualifications

Essential

Core qualification as a Clinical / Applied Psychologist or a Mental Health Professional with further Psychological Therapy qualification at masters level or above. Current registration with appropriate regulatory (for core professional) and registered professional bodies (e.g. HCPC, NMC BABCP, UKCP).
Education in relevant subject (clinical and/or leadership/management) to doctoral level or equivalent with supplementary training/experience, including evidence of advanced research skills.

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.

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

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

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House

Leicester

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

OSL House

Leicester

LE19 1XU

Employer's website

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