Consultant Clinical Psychologist/deputy Head of

3 weeks ago


Torquay, United Kingdom Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for a highly experienced Clinical Psychologist to support the ongoing development, evaluation and governance of our growing Clinical Health Psychology service. Alongside the Head of Service, the Consultant/Deputy will work across our health specialisms providing oversight and operational management to service leads. You will be expected to lead on key service development issues in keeping with local, national and Trust strategic plans, ensuring that services are high quality, cost-effective, equitable, and based on clinical and professional best practice.

Planning and organising a highly complex range of service development, clinical, consultative, training, governance and R&D activities, together with a small clinical caseload.

Provide professional and clinical leadership to colleagues at 8b and 8a and support the organisation and management of psychological staffing and material resources, service and team policies and procedures and service development initiatives.

Contribute psychological expertise to local, regional and, where appropriate, national steering, advisory, planning, or operational forums.

Managing responsibilities such as budget, authorisation of departmental policies and procedures, management of staff and resources as required by the Head of Service and deputising in their absence.

Accountability for professional actions in line with service and Trust principles and policies, and according to the professional codes of practice of the BPS and HCPC.

The Clinical Health Psychology team at Torbay Hospital are clarifying our position as a Lifespan Clinical Health Psychology service and implementing new ways of working. You will be joining us at an exciting time of change as we take forward these ideas to the wider organisation. Psychologically-informed healthcare is at the core of our new service model as we seek to weave psychological thinking to healthcare professionals across the ICO. We are developing our staff support, training and consultation offer based on a trauma-informed approach. Patient engagement is also a key area of focus.

We are a progressive service and are passionate about the uniqueness of Clinical Health Psychology. We have a mix of psychological professions in the team and welcome individuals who are keen to embrace the challenges and strengths this brings to our working and professional identity. We pride ourselves on our flexibility of working practices and our family first approach to working which allow people to work efficiently and effectively whilst maintaining healthy boundaries.

As a Trust, we have introduced agile working and as a service we are committed to supporting our teams and colleagues in adopting this approach. We have recently rolled out a Compassionate Leadership programme to all staff. The CHP team have been trained in ACT, EMDR & CFT and there is a strong commitment to both evidence
- and practice-based interventions.

Communication and working relationships

Maintain effective communication in a highly skilled and sensitive manner and build effective working relationships with a range of health and social care staff across all levels, both within and outside of the organisation.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure that any correspondence is of a high standard.

Provide excellent, professional communication and customer service when representing our service.

To work collaboratively with colleagues within the department and support team cohesion. To support a culture of respectful and compassion.

To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to patients, carers, and staff.

To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Trust and within CHP to ensure co-ordination of work in the Clinical Health Psychology service.

Planning and organisation

Initiate, plan and organise a workload of a complex range of activities.

Formulate and adjust plans for service delivery in the short term and long term.

In line with service and Trust plans, continually formulate appropriate service strategy with the Head of Service.

Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to meet an ever-changing workload.

Be responsive to change and able to work in an environment which has constant interruptions.

Be adaptable to the needs of the Head of Service and deputise as required, such as during absence.

Analytical and judgement

To make skilled and complex assessments, formulations and decisions about treatment options considering a range of options which draw on both theoretical and therapeutic models.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To provide highly skilled clinical consultation to other health and so



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