Head of Staff Psychological Wellbeing
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Job summary
Are you a dynamic psychologist with extensive leadership experience, who is dedicated to making a positive difference to workforce wellness? Our vision is to improve the health and wellbeing of our workforce by embedding psychological wellbeing across our organisation, and we are looking for a psychologist who can lead and develop our innovative, evidence-based staff wellbeing initiatives in collaboration with Directorate and Divisional colleagues.
Main duties of the job
Work closely with Deputy Director HR-OD, jointly identify, agree and action a range of issues regarding the provision of the service, activities including: performance management, clinical governance, service provision, service development.Implement the service strategy through collaborative work with HR-OD leadership and other senior managers within the Trust.
Responsible wider organisational team-based wellbeing interventions in collaboration with the Organisational Development team.
Review systems of delivery of high-quality evidence based clinical services, to optimise response times and ensure timely provision of a range of services and resources to staff. Collaborate with Organisational Development, Human Resources, Occupational Health team, leads and representatives from other departments to develop joint staff health and wellbeing programmes.Contribute to the development and implementation of strategies for the future delivery of psychological wellbeing services within the Trust in an inclusive way with partners and colleagues.Leadership and management of the Wellbeing psychology service including staff management, financial management, clinical governance and service delivery.Act as the clinical lead and serve as a psychological consultant resource to the Executive team, HR and other senior leaders across Trust regarding workforce wellbeing.Work strategically to lead the implementation of appropriate policy and service development changes within the specialty.
About us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Details
Date posted
01 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8d
Salary
£89,007 to £101,812 a year Pro rata (0.8 WTE)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
393-NMUH-976
Job locations
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Sterling Way
Enfield
N18 1QX
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
1. Develop, deliver and lead high quality, sustainable, evidence-based Psychology Services for Trust staff, including: skilled assessments for presentations of a wide range of psychological difficulties; development of treatment plans to meet needs; management of complex clients behavioural, emotional or psychosocial difficulties
2. Offer feedback to individuals in relation to concerns and provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and possibly contentious information
3. Manage a specialised caseload of patients as an expert with high levels of clinical decision making and specialist skills to assess, treat and discharge clients. Manage risk, advise and signpost other services when appropriate
4. Regularly audit and review clinical activity and develop cost effective, evidence-based delivery models to increase service access and minimise waiting times
5. Provide professional leadership and consultation to the Trust on psychological practice and initiatives for promoting wellbeing for staff
6. Represent the Trust and OD-HR as a specialist practitioner and advisor on appropriate clinical and professional networks
7. Lead on Serious Incident aftercare
8. Conduct staff support and peer support groups
9. Provide expert consultation and advice to managers and other Trust stakeholders in relation to improving the mental wellbeing of staff
10. Participate in evaluating initiatives, which may be submitted to the Trust by external agencies
11. Be accountable for own professional actions within the HCPCs Code of Conduct and in accordance with all Trust policies
12. Lead on new methods of service delivery
Teaching, training, supervision
1. Ensure staff in the team have access to professional supervision and continuing professional development; ensure training and supervision standards are met
2. Ensure clinical and professional supervision of qualified, unqualified and honorary staff working in the team
3. Provide specialist clinical placements for trainee psychotherapists, clinical and counselling psychologists, ensuring trainees acquire necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care.
4. Provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical supervision to qualified clinical and counselling psychologists attached to the team
5. Ensure annual appraisals and Personal Development Plans are carried out annually for all Psychology staff within the Wellbeing Service
6. Keep abreast of developments within the wider profession of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology
7. Responsible for the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of psychological practice through active participation in external and internal CPD, training and development programmes
8. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the staff working in the NHS and professional practice
9. Contribute to wider Trust projects and developments, as agreed with Deputy Director HR-OD
Leadership, Service Development and Management
1. Deputise when required for Deputy Director HR-OD and be part of the HR-OD Senior Leadership Team.
2. Lead the development of the staff Psychology Service, and other workforce mental health wellbeing initiatives across the Trust. Advise HR-OD team and senior management on aspects of the service need to be addressed.
3. Monitor current psychology provision for Trust staff, identify new opportunities, monitoring performance, and identify and manage risks.
4. Develop and deliver a Trust Psychology Service within HR-OD that ensures the most efficient use of current resources, with new opportunities arising from service integration, business planning, other developments, as well as promoting equality of service access across all clinical areas.
5. Accountable for operational delivery of the service within HR-OD, in line with agreed internal and external clinical governance standards, Trust wide policies and best practice requirements. Ensure clinical staff within the service comply with all Trust and directorate processes, procedures, and system.
6. Continually review and profile service provision and workforce requirements in accordance with referral patterns and skill mix, mindful of cost improvement programmes and the introduction of new and innovative roles and pathways.
7. Establish effective performance management structures to ensure that no Registered Psychologist operates in isolation, outside recognised managerial and professional frameworks.
8. Contribute to long-term development of relevant policies, practices and procedures at a strategic level, for psychological functioning and well-being of staff.
9. Co-ordinate the implementation of policies and guidance (e.g., NICE) involving Psychology provision within HR-OD, and lead on planning and communication where these impact upon other professional disciplines or directorates.
10. Oversee recruitment of psychological therapies staff within the team.
11. Guide the Trust on long-term workforce planning and other concerns as they link to the resources necessary to provide high quality and effective Psychological Services for staff.
12. Responsible for complaints investigation and management, in accordance with Trust guidelines and timeframes.
13. Lead and work with NMUH colleagues to deliver a system for supporting staff in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events and develop an integrated trauma response resource for staff. Work closely and in collaboration with the Trust resilience to contribute to existing systems to support staff in the aftermath of major incident.
14. Provide expert psychological input to multidisciplinary work initiatives. Work with leads of the other health and wellbeing initiatives to develop integrated models for wellbeing programmes for various staff groups.
15. Develop and maintain professional collaboration with other Staff Wellbeing Services across NCL, other London areas and nationally, to support service development and continuing professional development.
16. Contribute with HR-OD, Divisional Management Teams, Associate Directors, other senior leaders within the trust to the development and articulation of best practice in staff psychological wellbeing across the Trust.
17. Manage and supervise the team of Psychological Therapists within the team, following BPS guidelines on clinical supervision and HCPC standards of proficiency for registered Psychologists and in accordance with Trust policies.
18. Represent the OH staff Psychology Service at other Trust forums, with senior staff members, providing advice, both internally and externally.
19. Represent psychological wellbeing at various forums, working with stakeholders to ensure appropriate service delivery and development, providing psychological perspective and proposing changes to service and policy development for the Trust and at a regional and national level.
Financial
1. Advise on the management of, and hold delegated responsibility as appropriate, for the staffing budget within the specialty.
2. Scrutinise the allocation of funds to various psychological interventions.
3. Report to the Deputy Director HR-OD in the allocation of funding.IT Responsibilities 1. To be able to send and receive email, including attachment. 2. To competently use a word-processing and database package. 3. To use computers to write reports and record data, including the use of statistical packages as part of psychological testing, research and assessment when needed. To be able to use research databases and advanced tools for analysis at both qualitative and quantitative levels.
4. Develop, maintain and provide regular reports from the Trusts information systems to monitor the service provided and to support audit and service evaluation.
Research and service evaluation
1. Take the lead in planning and implementing systems for the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
2. Routinely utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence- based practice in individual work, work with other team members and across the service.
3. Undertake research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
4. Initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients.
5. Act as a field supervisor for doctorate clinical psychology theses providing expert research knowledge in a clinical area.
General
1. Ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes and supervision.
2. Ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the team and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining anactive engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. Maintain and promote highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data recording, report writing, and exercise self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Health Professions Council for continuing registration and Trust policies and procedures.
4. Ensure all team psychologists maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the specific client group and mental health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
1. Develop, deliver and lead high quality, sustainable, evidence-based Psychology Services for Trust staff, including: skilled assessments for presentations of a wide range of psychological difficulties; development of treatment plans to meet needs; management of complex clients behavioural, emotional or psychosocial difficulties
2. Offer feedback to individuals in relation to concerns and provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and possibly contentious information
3. Manage a specialised caseload of patients as an expert with high levels of clinical decision making and specialist skills to assess, treat and discharge clients. Manage risk, advise and signpost other services when appropriate
4. Regularly audit and review clinical activity and develop cost effective, evidence-based delivery models to increase service access and minimise waiting times
5. Provide professional leadership and consultation to the Trust on psychological practice and initiatives for promoting wellbeing for staff
6. Represent the Trust and OD-HR as a specialist practitioner and advisor on appropriate clinical and professional networks
7. Lead on Serious Incident aftercare
8. Conduct staff support and peer support groups
9. Provide expert consultation and advice to managers and other Trust stakeholders in relation to improving the mental wellbeing of staff
10. Participate in evaluating initiatives, which may be submitted to the Trust by external agencies
11. Be accountable for own professional actions within the HCPCs Code of Conduct and in accordance with all Trust policies
12. Lead on new methods of service delivery
Teaching, training, supervision
1. Ensure staff in the team have access to professional supervision and continuing professional development; ensure training and supervision standards are met
2. Ensure clinical and professional supervision of qualified, unqualified and honorary staff working in the team
3. Provide specialist clinical placements for trainee psychotherapists, clinical and counselling psychologists, ensuring trainees acquire necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care.
4. Provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical supervision to qualified clinical and counselling psychologists attached to the team
5. Ensure annual appraisals and Personal Development Plans are carried out annually for all Psychology staff within the Wellbeing Service
6. Keep abreast of developments within the wider profession of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology
7. Responsible for the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of psychological practice through active participation in external and internal CPD, training and development programmes
8. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the staff working in the NHS and professional practice
9. Contribute to wider Trust projects and developments, as agreed with Deputy Director HR-OD
Leadership, Service Development and Management
1. Deputise when required for Deputy Director HR-OD and be part of the HR-OD Senior Leadership Team.
2. Lead the development of the staff Psychology Service, and other workforce mental health wellbeing initiatives across the Trust. Advise HR-OD team and senior management on aspects of the service need to be addressed.
3. Monitor current psychology provision for Trust staff, identify new opportunities, monitoring performance, and identify and manage risks.
4. Develop and deliver a Trust Psychology Service within HR-OD that ensures the most efficient use of current resources, with new opportunities arising from service integration, business planning, other developments, as well as promoting equality of service access across all clinical areas.
5. Accountable for operational delivery of the service within HR-OD, in line with agreed internal and external clinical governance standards, Trust wide policies and best practice requirements. Ensure clinical staff within the service comply with all Trust and directorate processes, procedures, and system.
6. Continually review and profile service provision and workforce requirements in accordance with referral patterns and skill mix, mindful of cost improvement programmes and the introduction of new and innovative roles and pathways.
7. Establish effective performance management structures to ensure that no Registered Psychologist operates in isolation, outside recognised managerial and professional frameworks.
8. Contribute to long-term development of relevant policies, practices and procedures at a strategic level, for psychological functioning and well-being of staff.
9. Co-ordinate the implementation of policies and guidance (e.g., NICE) involving Psychology provision within HR-OD, and lead on planning and communication where these impact upon other professional disciplines or directorates.
10. Oversee recruitment of psychological therapies staff within the team.
11. Guide the Trust on long-term workforce planning and other concerns as they link to the resources necessary to provide high quality and effective Psychological Services for staff.
12. Responsible for complaints investigation and management, in accordance with Trust guidelines and timeframes.
13. Lead and work with NMUH colleagues to deliver a system for supporting staff in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events and develop an integrated trauma response resource for staff. Work closely and in collaboration with the Trust resilience to contribute to existing systems to support staff in the aftermath of major incident.
14. Provide expert psychological input to multidisciplinary work initiatives. Work with leads of the other health and wellbeing initiatives to develop integrated models for wellbeing programmes for various staff groups.
15. Develop and maintain professional collaboration with other Staff Wellbeing Services across NCL, other London areas and nationally, to support service development and continuing professional development.
16. Contribute with HR-OD, Divisional Management Teams, Associate Directors, other senior leaders within the trust to the development and articulation of best practice in staff psychological wellbeing across the Trust.
17. Manage and supervise the team of Psychological Therapists within the team, following BPS guidelines on clinical supervision and HCPC standards of proficiency for registered Psychologists and in accordance with Trust policies.
18. Represent the OH staff Psychology Service at other Trust forums, with senior staff members, providing advice, both internally and externally.
19. Represent psychological wellbeing at various forums, working with stakeholders to ensure appropriate service delivery and development, providing psychological perspective and proposing changes to service and policy development for the Trust and at a regional and national level.
Financial
1. Advise on the management of, and hold delegated responsibility as appropriate, for the staffing budget within the specialty.
2. Scrutinise the allocation of funds to various psychological interventions.
3. Report to the Deputy Director HR-OD in the allocation of funding.IT Responsibilities 1. To be able to send and receive email, including attachment. 2. To competently use a word-processing and database package. 3. To use computers to write reports and record data, including the use of statistical packages as part of psychological testing, research and assessment when needed. To be able to use research databases and advanced tools for analysis at both qualitative and quantitative levels.
4. Develop, maintain and provide regular reports from the Trusts information systems to monitor the service provided and to support audit and service evaluation.
Research and service evaluation
1. Take the lead in planning and implementing systems for the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
2. Routinely utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence- based practice in individual work, work with other team members and across the service.
3. Undertake research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
4. Initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to clients.
5. Act as a field supervisor for doctorate clinical psychology theses providing expert research knowledge in a clinical area.
General
1. Ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes and supervision.
2. Ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the team and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining anactive engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
3. Maintain and promote highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data recording, report writing, and exercise self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Health Professions Council for continuing registration and Trust policies and procedures.
4. Ensure all team psychologists maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the specific client group and mental health.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Post-doctoral training in a specialist area of psychological practice with accreditation and registration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. BABCP accredited CBT or UKCP accredited systemic family therapy)
- Completion of clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
Desirable
- A relevant leadership qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychological therapies including knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuro-psychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- High level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing expert consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of health and care provision and government and national professional policy
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
Experience
Essential
- Very extensive assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or psychotherapist, including substantial recent post qualification experience within staff wellbeing.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a broad range of care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of staff wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Personal Qualities and Values
Essential
- 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.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Passionate commitment to the highest values of respect and compassion in all dealings with service users and staff
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Good leadership skills.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuro-psychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Post-doctoral training in a specialist area of psychological practice with accreditation and registration with the appropriate professional body (e.g. BABCP accredited CBT or UKCP accredited systemic family therapy)
- Completion of clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
Desirable
- A relevant leadership qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychological therapies including knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuro-psychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- High level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing expert consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of health and care provision and government and national professional policy
Desirable
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
Experience
Essential
- Very extensive assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or psychotherapist, including substantial recent post qualification experience within staff wellbeing.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a broad range of care settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of providing professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
- Experience of staff wellbeing initiatives and programmes.
- Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists.
- Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
Personal Qualities and Values
Essential
- 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.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Passionate commitment to the highest values of respect and compassion in all dealings with service users and staff
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Desirable
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Good leadership skills.
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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
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).
Employer details
Employer name
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Address
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Sterling Way
Enfield
N18 1QX
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Employer details
Employer name
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Address
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Sterling Way
Enfield
N18 1QX
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Details
Date posted
01 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8d
Salary
£89,007 to £101,812 a year Pro rata (0.8 WTE)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
393-NMUH-976
Job locations
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Sterling Way
Enfield
N18 1QX
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