Job summary
Greater Manchester has successfully bid to become a Pathfinder for Adult Victims and Survivors of Sexual Assault and Abuse with Complex Trauma Related Mental Health Needs. Our aim is to develop care pathways across organisations to improve access to the range of services victims and survivors with complex needs require in order recover, heal and rebuild their lives.
The project is a partnership between:
- Greater Manchester Rape Crisis
- Greater Manchester Resilience Hub (GMRH), Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Survivors Manchester
- Trafford Rape Crisis
- Victim Support
We are looking for a Clinical Lead who, in addition to having excellent clinical skills and expertise in working with victims/survivors of sexual violence, is able to take a trauma-responsive approach to all the duties and responsibilities of the role, recognising that how the Pathfinder is developed and led makes a crucial contribution to the sense of safety and empowerment felt by survivors of sexual violence/abuse and the staff in the organisations supporting them.
The post will be based in the GMRH, with regular visits to all the partners in the project (therefore the ability/willingness to travel around GM is essential).
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Lead and a highly specialist psychologist/psychotherapist with substantial senior clinical experience in relation to sexual trauma and post-qualification training in trauma focused interventions, the post-holder will provide Clinical Leadership for the delivery of the multi-agency, GM-wide Sexual Violence and Complex Trauma Pathfinder project.The post holder will contribute to the development of effective care pathways for adults who have experienced/are experiencing sexual violence and/or abuse and present with complex mental health issues as a result of that trauma.These pathways will span a range of voluntary sector and NHS services in GM.The post holder will take a trauma-responsive approach to all the duties and responsibilities listed below, recognising that how the Pathfinder is developed and led makes a crucial contribution to the sense of safety and empowerment felt by survivors of sexual violence/abuse and the staff in the organisations supporting them.The post holder will utilise research skills for evaluation and service development.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#PennineCarePeopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist psychological consultation, guidance and ongoing support to a range of organisations, teams and professionals in the formulation and appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans for survivors of sexual violence/abuse, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.To provide expertise and guidance to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychologically informed practice across a range of organisations and teams caring for survivors of sexual violence/abuse
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist psychological consultation, guidance and ongoing support to a range of organisations, teams and professionals in the formulation and appropriate therapeutic approaches or intervention plans for survivors of sexual violence/abuse, and to be involved in, or oversee specialist psychological aspects of their implementation in collaboration with other staff.To provide expertise and guidance to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychologically informed practice across a range of organisations and teams caring for survivors of sexual violence/abuse
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence. Or an accredited membership with an appropriate psychological professional body and multimodality therapist with post graduate qualification
- Qualification in at least one NICE approved psychological intervention for PTSD
- Accredited training in supervision of trainee psychological therapists
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a highly specialist psychological therapist with victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist/psychotherapist with significant post qualification experience in both adult and child mental health services
- Experience in undertaking line management and/or clinical supervision of psychological therapies staff.
- Experience of working with service users who are complex and challenging within a community and/or acute care pathway.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and in a wide range of settings e.g. community, voluntary sector, inpatients and acute care settings, primary care, residential.
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary services within community and acute care pathways.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching/training non-clinical professionals on the impact of trauma including sexual trauma
- Substantial experience of providing clinical leadership within a defined service area.
- Experience of effective and interpersonal and relationship management at a strategic level.
- Experience of providing psychologically informed consultation to a range of professionals in relation to trauma, including sexual trauma
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to a range of professionals in both work and private lives, their families, as well as clients of mental health services.
- Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, distressing, sensitive or contentious information.
- Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive, antagonistic, distressing or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other organisations, teams and individual professionals across public, voluntary and private sectors
- High level skills in providing training on a range of clinical and non-clinical complex and potentially distressing subjects to non-clinical and clinical staff
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software.
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative.
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
- Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies.
- Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological services.
- Commitment to quality improvement in services for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse including the use of multi-professional evaluation and audit
- Ability to engage a range of professional and non-professional groups in co-operative working
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy and for computer work
- Ability to manage frequent periods of prolonged concentration in service users' sessions, meetings and during computing tasks.
- Ability to move equipment (including case files, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical, psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS. Or a post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) Statement of equivalence. Or an accredited membership with an appropriate psychological professional body and multimodality therapist with post graduate qualification
- Qualification in at least one NICE approved psychological intervention for PTSD
- Accredited training in supervision of trainee psychological therapists
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a highly specialist psychological therapist with victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse.
- Experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist/psychotherapist with significant post qualification experience in both adult and child mental health services
- Experience in undertaking line management and/or clinical supervision of psychological therapies staff.
- Experience of working with service users who are complex and challenging within a community and/or acute care pathway.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and in a wide range of settings e.g. community, voluntary sector, inpatients and acute care settings, primary care, residential.
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary services within community and acute care pathways.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for psychological care and treatment as an autonomous practitioner with complex and challenging service users within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching/training non-clinical professionals on the impact of trauma including sexual trauma
- Substantial experience of providing clinical leadership within a defined service area.
- Experience of effective and interpersonal and relationship management at a strategic level.
- Experience of providing psychologically informed consultation to a range of professionals in relation to trauma, including sexual trauma
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to a range of professionals in both work and private lives, their families, as well as clients of mental health services.
- Highly developed skills and experience of working with complex, distressing, sensitive or contentious information.
- Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive, antagonistic, distressing or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other organisations, teams and individual professionals across public, voluntary and private sectors
- High level skills in providing training on a range of clinical and non-clinical complex and potentially distressing subjects to non-clinical and clinical staff
- Keyboard skills and skills in using word-processing, e mail and internet software.
- Ability to work independently on a day to day basis and use own initiative.
- Ability to work towards agreed goals, reviewed regularly in management supervision.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the appropriate professional body.
- Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies.
- Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical governance and risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological services.
- Commitment to quality improvement in services for victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse including the use of multi-professional evaluation and audit
- Ability to engage a range of professional and non-professional groups in co-operative working
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others
- Ability to sit in constrained position for client therapy and for computer work
- Ability to manage frequent periods of prolonged concentration in service users' sessions, meetings and during computing tasks.
- Ability to move equipment (including case files, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings
- Ability to work to professional guidelines
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
