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Head of Mental Health Services
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This is a highly influential position that provides professional leadership to Psychological Therapies staff, as well as collaborating to set the approach for whole-team working across secondary acute and crisis Adult Mental Health services in Bromley, Bexley, and Greenwich.
Main Responsibilities- Support a well-skilled, committed, and varied workforce to deliver timely and effective psychological assessments, interventions, and therapy to people experiencing serious mental health problems and/or dementia.
- Lead on workforce planning, manage recruitment to maximize staff and skill mix within budget, and support existing staff to engage with appropriate learning and development.
- Contribute to the wider leadership of the directorate as part of the senior management team by participating or leading on aspects of the quality agenda.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust offers a wide range of healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community healthcare, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies.
Our Values- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
This role would work in partnership with the Directorate Management Team led by a supportive Service Director. Psychological Therapies is well respected within Oxleas, and there is a collaborative and supportive professional network. Oxleas has a clear commitment to support and develop staff in their roles, and training and development are generally well supported.
Person SpecificationThis role requires:
- Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field.
- Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.
Desirable qualifications include a post-graduate qualification in leadership/management.
ExperienceThis role requires experience of:
- Management of multi-psychological professions teams or services within the client group.
- Managing a budget.
- Working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
- Teaching, training, and clinical supervision, as well as providing professional leadership.
Desirable experience includes the full range of professional leadership responsibilities, including defining appropriate establishments, grading, and recruitment procedures, performance, and appraisal.
Other RequirementsThis role requires:
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by psychology and psychological therapy services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
- Willingness to travel between Trust bases on a regular basis.
