Associate Director for Psychological Therapies
19 hours ago
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our team as an Associate Director for Psychological Therapies. The successful candidate will provide clinical and professional leadership for all psychological therapies staff within the Care Network and across the Trust with regards to the specific care pathway of Older Adults.
Key Responsibilities- Provide clinical and professional advice on psychological practice and providing assurance on the delivery of psychological approaches both within the South Division and across the Trust as it relates to their designated care pathway of Older Adults.
- Attend the psychotherapeutics committee meetings and ensure the implementation of the work plan as it relates to the South Division and Older Adults.
- Be responsible for the development of psychological approaches and interventions and roles to support care delivery across the Care Network and across the Trust for Older Adults.
- Ensure that arrangements are in place to contribute to the effective clinical and professional supervision of staff in the Care Network, including professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs across the network and work jointly with the other Associate Directors for psychological therapies and the CPPO to ensure that these arrangements are in place for pathway services across the Trust.
- Lead on policy development and implementation as related to psychological service provision across psychological therapies pathways and support the implementation of the Trust Mental Health strategy.
- Undertake audit, teaching and research activities, and to promote research activity within the psychological therapies across the Care Network and within the Older Adults care pathway.
- Ensure that arrangements are in place for the systematic governance of psychological practice across the Care Network and jointly with the CPPO and the other Associate Directors for psychological therapies to ensure this is in place for the specific care pathway across the Trust.
- Provide a specialist clinical service directly to clients and through the provision of expert advice, consultancy, and supervision to professional colleagues.
We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist with the following qualifications, experience, and skills:
- Good honours degree in psychology.
- Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
- Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology, (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological theories and lifespan development psychology.
- HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical).
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
- Assessed substantial experience of working as a qualified Clinical Psychologist within Older Adult services.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, including Older Adults, across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings.
- Experience of effective multi-agency and disciplinary team working and networking.
- Experience of clinical and professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological therapists.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of strategic service development and evaluation.
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological theories and lifespan development psychology.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis.
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Awareness of relevant professional guidelines and standards for the provision of psychological services and ability to interpret and implement the same in practice and service delivery.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- High level ability to communicate effectively at both 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.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. High level skills in clinical and professional supervision.
- Ability to think and plan strategically at a clinical and service level, where interventions may impact on a range of services and individuals and require longer term objectives and planning.
- Ability to articulate and represent psychological therapies services perspectives in a range of clinical and professional fora.
- Ability to identify, and employ, 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 demonstrate leadership and management skills.
- Ability to provide teaching, training, advice, consultation and supervision to meet the needs of a wide range of lay and professional people, using a range of formats and materials.
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological approaches and an interest in models of service delivery; and an ability to articulate the value added by psychological services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly challenging behaviours.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
- Ability to articulate and interpret the roles and professions psychological therapists based on a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS and other appropriate professional body for specialist therapy EMDR.
- Experience of providing a range of complex psychological assessment and interventions using information derived from a variety of sources and requiring highly developed analytic and interpretative skills.
- Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy forums.
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