Clinical Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see associated documents such as job description and employee specification for further detail.

The clinical lead will be responsible for the systematic provision of high quality psychological assessment, intervention, and risk management for service users under the care of the LSCFD Liaison and Diversion and Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) services. In particular, the appointed person will take a lead role in planning, developing and implementing the new primary care MHTR pathway being developed in Nottinghamshire. This is an exciting opportunity to develop an inclusive, psychologically led service providing psychosocial interventions as part of court ordered community sentences.

To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological (and neuropsychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals/carers/families and/or groups employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment of and discharge of service users whose problems are managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan in an appropriate specialist area. To promote and raise awareness of the service to professionals from other agencies

To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory in an appropriate specialist area.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual service users and to provide both general and specialist advice for the MDT, psychologists and other professionals (eg: probation staff) on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.

To provide consultation about the psychological care of the service user group to staff and agencies outside the Directorate and Trust in an appropriate specialist area.

To represent the Nottinghamshire Low Secure and Community Forensic Directorate and Psychology on Trust wide and other committees and groups, as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and with a clear brief.

To develop networks and contacts to update the policy and practice of forensic and clinical psychology, particularly as applied to Liaison and Diversion and Mental Health Treatment Requirement services, to support professional and service development.

To undertake clinical and professional supervision of qualified and unqualified psychological services staff working within the L&D, MHTR on an ongoing basis and line management to MHTR staff.

To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.

To provide specialist clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists and/or other trainee professionals from psychological services where appropriate. To ensure that they acquire the necessary clinical and/or research skills to doctoral level where appropriate, and achieve competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological practice. To contribute to the assessment and evaluation of those competencies

To provide specialist advice, consultation and training and (where agreed locally) clinical supervision to other members of the teams and other professionals involved with the work of the teams, for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service user functioning.

To provide pre and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychologists and/or other professionals as appropriate.

To continue to develop expertise in the area of professional pre and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• An honours degree in Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS); and Doctorate or MSc in Clinical, Forensic or Counselling Psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Currently registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council as a Practitioner Psychologist - Clinical, Forensic or Counselling
• Post-doctoral qualification in clinical supervision to doctoral psychology trainees and can demonstrate competence in supervision of MDT staff and professional psychology trainees.

Training

Essential

• Post-doctoral training in specific therapeutic approaches oPost-doctoral training in risk assessment and management

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working effectively in multidisciplinary settings to devise specialist care programmes. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment.
• Substantial experience of working intensively with people who present challenges in the complexity of their problems and needs, for example sexual and violent offending and self-harming and suicidal behaviours.
• Experience of teaching, training and providing professional / clinical supervision to others (including qualified psychologists and other professionals, including presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Experience of working in a clinical leadership position

Desirable

• Experience of line management
• Experience of service-relevant research

Knowledge

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of models of assessment, management and treatment to patients of the LS&CF Directorate, who present with anxiety and depressive disorders, severe and enduring mental illness, complex trauma including Personality Disorder, and intellectual and developmental difficulties (IDD) and substance misuse.
• Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation relating to mentally disordered offenders in the criminal justice system.

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of relevant governance structures and reporting responsibilities

Skills

Essential

• High level of ability to plan and organise clinical service provision to meet service demands, and to maintain high quality professional practice.

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Physical Requirements

Essential

• Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties

Contractual Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel between Trust sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Westminster House

598 The Wells Road

Nottingham

NG3 3AA

Employer's website

https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)