Head of Mental Health and Disability Services
9 hours ago
This is a highly influential role 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.
The role is for 2 days a week, for 6 months to cover a secondment.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced clinician who is able to innovate, inspire and lead the psychosocial and psychological therapy practices within ward and home treatment and crisis resolution teams.
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, managing recruitment to maximise staff and skill mix within budget and supporting 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.
- Contribute to the wider professional leadership of the Trust as part of the 'Trust Leads' group of Heads of Psychological Therapies.
- 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.
- Experience of management of multi-psychological professions teams or services within the client group.
- Experience of managing a budget.
- 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 the full range of care settings.
- Experience of teaching, training, and clinical supervision, as well as providing professional leadership.
- A high level of 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.
- Ability to communicate service-related information to senior colleagues.
- Ability to contribute to policy initiation, development and to the long term strategic development of the services within the speciality.
- 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.
- Ability to pursue and implement a variety of service tasks simultaneously, withstanding frequent interruption so as to remain responsive to varying levels of service need and differing time frames.
- Willingness to travel between Trust bases on a regular basis.
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.
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