Job summary
This role is to help provide leadership and oversight for psychological services across the Division.
The postholder will provide professional and operational line management supervision for psychology service leads within the Division and work closely with Division's triumvirate and senior leadership team to ensure psychological thinking and trauma informed principles and practice are embedded across the Division. They will ensure psychological profession have a voice and representation at the most senior level within the PSEH geographical Division.
They will report professionally to Trust Chief Psychological Profession Officer (CPPO) and work closely with them, and other psychological divisional directors, to help achieve Trust's objectives arounds psychological services. The role will ensure psychological pathways are informed by latest evidence based and cutting-edge therapies, and staff are trained to national standards to provide effective care. The postholder will be responsible for ensuring better integration across the psychological pathways across the Division in line with NHS long term plan objectives.
This is a role for suitable qualified and existing consultant psychologists, operating as a head of service or department within the organisation.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and overall governance responsibility of the psychological practice across the division
To ensure the systematic provision of high quality and highly specialist Psychological Services to the Division, this includes community patients and their families, with other clinical work organised according to service needs, across the Division. This may also include assessment and consultation to external NHS or other non-health agencies.
As part of the Divisional Directorate Senior Leadership Team, together with senior colleagues, to lead on service development and service quality and performance issues across the Division including, but not limited to, Psychological Services. To direct the Division by contributing to operational and strategic decisions.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of Psychological practice.
Desirable
- Management and/or leadership training.
Experience
Essential
- *Highly experienced in working as a qualified Psychologist for a substantial period, with significant post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- *Experience of development of psychological services and long term strategic planning across service line
- *Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the adult mental health including community, outpatient and specialist settings relevant to the role
- *Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- *Experience of professional management of qualified psychological professions including line management, recruitment, workload allocation, appraisal and CPD
- *Experience of providing clinical supervision and supervision of supervision to highly trained and experienced psychological therapists and mental health clinicians
- *Experience of the application of psychology therapies in face challenging complexities and in different settings and cultural contexts
- *Experience of providing effective strategic professional leadership with a significant breadth of responsibility for psychological services across one or more organisation
- *Experience of delivering quality improvements projects
- *Experience in teaching and training of trainee and post-qualification psychological therapists, and of non- psychological staff
- *Experience of working at a Consultant level
- *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 working within multidisciplinary services
- *Experience of maintaining high level of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- *Experience of developing and implementing policies across service line
- *Experience of multi-professional service development
Desirable
- *Experience of overseeing high level research and evaluation pilots and projects
- *Experience of managing budget for one or services across service line
- *Experience of working with commissioners, stakeholders and internal/external organisations to develop clinical services and achieve demanding targets and KPIs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialist areas of Psychological practice.
Desirable
- Management and/or leadership training.
Experience
Essential
- *Highly experienced in working as a qualified Psychologist for a substantial period, with significant post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- *Experience of development of psychological services and long term strategic planning across service line
- *Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the adult mental health including community, outpatient and specialist settings relevant to the role
- *Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity
- *Experience of professional management of qualified psychological professions including line management, recruitment, workload allocation, appraisal and CPD
- *Experience of providing clinical supervision and supervision of supervision to highly trained and experienced psychological therapists and mental health clinicians
- *Experience of the application of psychology therapies in face challenging complexities and in different settings and cultural contexts
- *Experience of providing effective strategic professional leadership with a significant breadth of responsibility for psychological services across one or more organisation
- *Experience of delivering quality improvements projects
- *Experience in teaching and training of trainee and post-qualification psychological therapists, and of non- psychological staff
- *Experience of working at a Consultant level
- *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 working within multidisciplinary services
- *Experience of maintaining high level of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- *Experience of developing and implementing policies across service line
- *Experience of multi-professional service development
Desirable
- *Experience of overseeing high level research and evaluation pilots and projects
- *Experience of managing budget for one or services across service line
- *Experience of working with commissioners, stakeholders and internal/external organisations to develop clinical services and achieve demanding targets and KPIs
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
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).
