Senior Clinical Health Psychologist Lead

2 weeks ago


Barking, Greater London, United Kingdom NHS Full time
Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior psychological professional to take on the position of Psychological Professional lead for Clinical Health Psychological Services (CHPS). This will include day operational management, guidance and support to the Psychological Professionals within the Clinical Health Psychological Service including management and clinical supervision, monitoring and maintaining high standards of service delivery and clinical leadership.

Main Duties of the Job

To participate fully in the work of the Directorate / Senior Management Team and take direction as requested and attend, participate in, Integrated Care Director (ICD) or other meetings as required including effectively communicating service related information.

  1. To analyse situations, some of which will be highly complex, requiring interpretation and comparison of a range of options to make decisions and raise these concerns with the Deputy Director of Psychological Professions, Assistant Integrated Care Director or Deputy Assistant Director, making appropriate referrals as necessary e.g. complex clinical, safeguarding and service response decisions.
  2. To take responsibility for the analysis and reporting on key performance and efficiency targets, taking appropriate action in collaboration with the Assistant Integrated Care Director and corporate services where necessary.
  3. To ensure maximum use of clinical resources, including the monitoring and evaluation of activity and performance within the pathway.
  4. To manage, lead, co-ordinate and take overall responsibility for the work of Psychological Professionals in the Clinical Health Psychological Service Teams within the assigned directorate.
  5. To include day to day operational management, guidance and support to the Psychological Professionals within the Clinical Health Psychological Service including management and clinical supervision, monitoring and maintaining high standards of service delivery and clinical leadership.
Job Responsibilities

To lead on the delivery of high quality, responsive and accessible psychological provision to individual adult Service Users and their families, who are receiving care in the Clinical Health Psychological Service of the assigned borough (although this will be Trust wide).

  1. Leading on the provision of expert advice, consultation and support to colleagues in the Clinical Health Psychological Service and other professionals who are referring Service Users to the service.
  2. To include providing a psychological perspective to care planning for Service Users who are complex and/or present with risk.
  3. To participate in dialogue with other Psychological Professional leads regarding best practice in order to promote the provision of high quality, evidence based practice which promotes anti-discriminatory practice, cultural competence and equality of opportunity.
  4. To work in collaboration within a variety of forums to ensure consistency and quality of clinical standards, to support service development and Trust initiatives.
  5. To ensure there are robust systems for clinical supervision, appraisal and career development for Psychological Professionals working within the Clinical Health Psychological Service of the assigned borough (Trust wide).
  6. To communicate with other Psychological Professional Leads in Clinical Health Psychological Service, the Deputy Director of Psychological Professions and the Assistant Integrated Care Director, interpreting and cascading national and local policies, ensuring systematic governance of psychological practice within the Trust and working with senior colleagues to maintain systems for effective professional and managerial supervision and support.
Person Specification

Qualification

  • Doctorate level qualification in clinical psychology or counselling psychology / advanced qualification in Psychotherapy
  • Currently active registration with appropriate UK Statutory body (eg HCPC, BABCP, BACP, UKCP)
Experience
  • Proven extensive experience of working with people with a range of physical health conditions, as well as complex mental illness and complex emotional needs in a clinical health psychological setting
  • Thorough knowledge of evidence based clinical practice in CHPS
Management/Supervision
  • Experience of providing staff supervision and appraisal to both qualified and non-professionally aligned staff
  • Expert knowledge of psychological approaches to physical health conditions as well as serious mental illness and complex emotional needs and of evidence based psychological treatments
NHS Working Experience
  • An awareness of NHS priorities, and specific specialist understanding of NHS priorities for CHPS
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex, high technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professionals colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Risk/Formulation Experience
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with working with safeguarding issues, issues concerning risk and highly complex mental health problems
  • Extensive knowledge and experience with managing waiting lists, clinical harm reviews, high level risk reporting


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