Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our multidisciplinary team in OHWB and lead our Psychological Therapies Team (PTS) in delivering high quality and effective psychological therapies to our Merseycare NHS Trust colleagues.
The successful candidate will ensure the systematic provision of high-quality psychological assessments and the implementation of a range of evidence-based group and individual psychological interventions and therapies.
The successful candidate will be responsible in ensuring that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychological services staff within OHWB, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs.
The successful candidate will be responsible for audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the Psychological Therapy Service in OHWB.
Prior experience of working at 8C level would be desirable.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical psychological leadership for the provision and further development of psychological care within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service (OHWS). To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to clients of the clinical team to which the post holder is attached. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within OHWS and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychological services staff within the service for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. To be responsible for audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the service.
To propose and implement policy and service development changes within the area served. A workplan will be developed with the postholder which will be reviewed on a yearly basis depending on the needs of the service.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical psychological leadership for the provision and further development of psychological care within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service (OHWS). To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to clients of the clinical team to which the post holder is attached. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within OHWS and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychological services staff within the service for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. To be responsible for audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the service.
Please see attached job description for detailed information regarding main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical psychological leadership for the provision and further development of psychological care within the Occupational Health & Wellbeing Service (OHWS). To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality specialist psychology service to clients of the clinical team to which the post holder is attached. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within OHWS and to ensure that systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all psychological services staff within the service for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility, including clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs. To be responsible for audit, policy and service development and research activities and/or programmes as required by the service.
Please see attached job description for detailed information regarding main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as 'Practitioner Psychologist' Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period, including post- qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of adult client groups across a range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care
- Demonstrable experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Experience of working with complex Mental Health difficulties
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary staff
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals.
Desirable
- Knowledge/Experience of working within Occupational Health & Wellbeing setting
- Experience of assessing and treating individuals across the full range of care settings
- Experience with supporting individuals to return to work
- Knowledge of the role of work and the impact on mental health and vice-versa
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists
- Experience of multiprofessional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in assessment and inpatient services.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of relevant therapy/interventions in assessment and inpatient services.
Values
Essential
- Continuous development
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Well developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uniprofessional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area
- Demonstrable evidence of working within an electronic software system to perform role/activities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council as 'Practitioner Psychologist' Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Desirable
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period, including post- qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located
- Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of adult client groups across a range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care
- Demonstrable experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems. Experience of working with complex Mental Health difficulties
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary staff
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals.
Desirable
- Knowledge/Experience of working within Occupational Health & Wellbeing setting
- Experience of assessing and treating individuals across the full range of care settings
- Experience with supporting individuals to return to work
- Knowledge of the role of work and the impact on mental health and vice-versa
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists
- Experience of multiprofessional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in assessment and inpatient services.
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of relevant therapy/interventions in assessment and inpatient services.
Values
Essential
- Continuous development
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Well developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multimedia materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uniprofessional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area
- Demonstrable evidence of working within an electronic software system to perform role/activities
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).
