Job summary
o Senior leadership role within Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support, contributing to national and international dissemination of evidence-based parenting interventions and ongoing research.o Portfolio of work coordinating, contributing, and leading on interventions, implementation, and dissemination
Main duties of the job
o Senior leadership role with Empowering Parents Empowering Communities within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, providing guidance and supervision to clinicians within the service. Working with senior leadership group to ensure work with national, international, and local services is fulfilled according to service level agreements, licenses, and work plans with sufficient funding.o Use understanding of complex and changing circumstances within social care, national health service and voluntary sector to support work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support to remain accessible, appropriate and acceptable.o Promote the work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support internally within the Trust, nationally and internationally, presenting at conferences, delivering training and through publications.
About us
About our locations:
Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.
Flexible working:As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage with the aim of giving you the best of good work life balance. (this may include working early mornings or late evenings and some Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post). On-site working a minimum of three days will be required
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service for the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) To work closely with the service leads to ensure EPEC has sufficient, staffing, and other resources to fulfil its local service requirements To work with the Heads of Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure that activity is safe, acceptable, and effective, gathering, and collating evidence and recommending/implementing service review and improvements as necessary To contribute and support day to day leadership of the EPEC service and its work including oversight of clinical and operational supervision, appraisals and review for team members, students, and trainees. To contribute and support development and day to day dissemination of programmes of the EPEC service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service for the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) To work closely with the service leads to ensure EPEC has sufficient, staffing, and other resources to fulfil its local service requirements To work with the Heads of Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure that activity is safe, acceptable, and effective, gathering, and collating evidence and recommending/implementing service review and improvements as necessary To contribute and support day to day leadership of the EPEC service and its work including oversight of clinical and operational supervision, appraisals and review for team members, students, and trainees. To contribute and support development and day to day dissemination of programmes of the EPEC service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy or equivalent with a strong portfolio of post-registration clinical professional development (A/I)
- Registration with professional body, HCPC, NMC, Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional body (A/I)
Desirable
- Additional training in therapeutic skills such as training in a manualised parenting programme (A/I)
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience
Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health, including specialist practitioner and clinical performance management work (A/I)
- Experience of working with families exposed to complex psychosocial risk factors (A/I)
- Experience of work in different cultural contexts (A/I)
- Experience of public presentation at a local level (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of aetiology of conduct disorder and parenting problems (A/I)
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice and evidence-base of specialised psychological therapies for children, young people and families such as parenting interventions, CBT, Family Partnership, family therapy (A/I)
- Sound knowledge of universal services and community settings (A/I)
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment for conduct problems, parenting and complex family risk factors and case management (A/I)
- Proven skills in delivering a range of evidence-based interventions with children, parents and families (A/I)
- Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with children, young people and their families and carers (A/I)
- Ability and skills to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working which complement the skills of other professionals (A/I)
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups (A/I)
- Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. (A/I)
Other
Essential
- An enthusiastic and committed approach to clinical, professional and service matters. (A/I)
- Highly motivated and able to work independently (A/I)
- Genuine commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and service user empowerment (A/I)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate or MSc level qualification associated with child and adolescent mental health e.g. clinical psychology, family therapy, child psychotherapy or equivalent with a strong portfolio of post-registration clinical professional development (A/I)
- Registration with professional body, HCPC, NMC, Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development as required by professional body (A/I)
Desirable
- Additional training in therapeutic skills such as training in a manualised parenting programme (A/I)
- Management qualification, management training course completion or line management experience
Experience
Essential
- Significant assessed experience of working at a Band 7 level in child and adolescent mental health, including specialist practitioner and clinical performance management work (A/I)
- Experience of working with families exposed to complex psychosocial risk factors (A/I)
- Experience of work in different cultural contexts (A/I)
- Experience of public presentation at a local level (A/I)
Understanding and Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of aetiology of conduct disorder and parenting problems (A/I)
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice and evidence-base of specialised psychological therapies for children, young people and families such as parenting interventions, CBT, Family Partnership, family therapy (A/I)
- Sound knowledge of universal services and community settings (A/I)
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven skills in the use of standard and specialised methods of assessment for conduct problems, parenting and complex family risk factors and case management (A/I)
- Proven skills in delivering a range of evidence-based interventions with children, parents and families (A/I)
- Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with children, young people and their families and carers (A/I)
- Ability and skills to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working which complement the skills of other professionals (A/I)
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups (A/I)
- Ability to acquire, interpret, synthesise and apply complex information from a variety of domains. (A/I)
Other
Essential
- An enthusiastic and committed approach to clinical, professional and service matters. (A/I)
- Highly motivated and able to work independently (A/I)
- Genuine commitment to equal opportunity, fair access and service user empowerment (A/I)
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
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).
