Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Psychological Therapies Leadership team. The Clinical Lead will work closely with the Associate Network Director for Psychological Therapies (ANDPT), Chief Psychological Professions Officer (CPPO), Senior managers, Clinical leads for other care pathways, and the acute care psychological service leads, to provide high quality, safe and effective care for ourservice users.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure the provision of a broad range of Psychological Therapies within the older adult pathways. They will provide clinical input in the form of delivery of assessments, formulations and therapeutic interventions of a high standard in line with nationally approved evidence bases and at the level of complexity appropriate to a consultant psychologist. They will be expected to be significantly involved in providing face to face clinical activity in the Oldham area and they will provide expert consultancy on psychological therapies to clinicians within services and teams across the Trust more widely. Supervision of others will be a key part of the roleThe post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and will jointly, with the Psychology Leads, share responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological therapy practice within older people's services across the trust. They will represent the older adult pathway in the strategic psychological therapy structure trust wide.A key role for the post holder is to embed the principles of trauma informed care, supporting the developing understanding about such approaches across staff teams, our processes and care delivered.The post holder will support psychological practitioners working across the older adult pathways and help support MDT ways of working.The post holder will support the adoption and embedding of new psychological practitioner roles.
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.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Job description
Job responsibilities
ClinicalWorking within a highly specialised clinical area to provide specialistpsychological assessments of clients 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 mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.To be responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring a range of highly individualistic and complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.To evaluate and make 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 communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in both written and oral formats.The post holder needs to be fully aware of issues relating to confidentiality and of limits to this.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.To contribute directly and indirectly and provide strategic clinical leadership within the directorate to inform a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To regularly attend multi-disciplinary reviews, clinical meetings, and pre-discharge meetings to present a psychologically informedperspective and to promote a psychological perspective in situations where professional opinion may differ.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.To ensure and promote the rights and welfare of clients and to maintain accurate clinical records of work done with clients.To embed the principles of trauma informed care, supporting the developing understanding about such approaches across staff teams, our processes and care delivered.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development:
To act as authorised signatory for a delegated budget forpsychological services where needed.Co-ordination of training places and opportunities and subsequent required supervision.To ensure that psychological practitioners and other clinicians within the acute care pathway have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and treating service users via expert clinical consultation and supervision systems.To support and be part of delivering national directives to ensure our services are performing well and are sustainable.To further develop and lead the clinical delivery model across older adultpsychology services to ensure services transform, evolve and meet presenting need within local communities. It will be important that this offer is equitable across the footprint in our work to reduce health inequalities.To further develop and support the adoption and embedding of newpsychological practitioner roles.Attendance at relevant forums, such as the psychological leadership group, psychotherapeutics group and other relevant meetings/ working parties.To provide line management supervision for staff where is appropriate to do so.To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within servicesincluding record keeping standards.To incorporate psychological thinking into key documents such as the business plan, people strategy and quality strategy. Taking a lead on actions from these plans and ensuring this information is shared with all members of the psychology team.To take a strategic lead on embedding psychological mindedness andcompassionate care across the pathway.To be involved in writing cases for new business.To work alongside the Associate Network Director for Psychological Therapies and be responsible for attending and contributing to strategic and development meetings for the servicesTo provide line management and clinical supervision to the psychologicaltherapies team, where needed.To be responsible for the recruitment and retention of additional psychological practitioners.To lead on the systematic governance of psychological practice within older adult servicesTo take a lead for the management of, including any HR processes of thepsychological therapies team.Where required, to support other care hubs and work streams in the delivery of psychological care. This may include supporting colleagues in inpatient services, community services and primary care.To ensure psychological practitioners within the care pathway have the required registration with regulatory bodies and, or accreditation with an appropriate body, to ensure safe practice and appropriate governance assurances.
Teaching, training and supervisionTo be responsible for maintaining own professional registration with HCPC in accordance with professional, ethical and CPD guidance. To ensure andsupport team compliance with professional standards and registration developing and sustaining your knowledge, clinical skill and professional awareness in accordance with their professional body HCPC and CPD guidelines.To support and develop a stepped care framework/ low level interventions within the acute pathway that is needs led.To take a lead role in clinical and management supervisory process.Attend relevant professional and development meetings and networks to contribute to, and maintain awareness of, regional and professionaldevelopments, and to gain peer support and advice.To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of Clinical and/or Counselling Psychology, as appropriate.To contribute to the development of knowledge and skills base within the directorate by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychological therapies and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
Research and service evaluation:To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Further details are available in the JD attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
ClinicalWorking within a highly specialised clinical area to provide specialistpsychological assessments of clients 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 mental health needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.To be responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring a range of highly individualistic and complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.To evaluate and make 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 communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, in both written and oral formats.The post holder needs to be fully aware of issues relating to confidentiality and of limits to this.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis, and treatment plan.To contribute directly and indirectly and provide strategic clinical leadership within the directorate to inform a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. To regularly attend multi-disciplinary reviews, clinical meetings, and pre-discharge meetings to present a psychologically informedperspective and to promote a psychological perspective in situations where professional opinion may differ.To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.To ensure and promote the rights and welfare of clients and to maintain accurate clinical records of work done with clients.To embed the principles of trauma informed care, supporting the developing understanding about such approaches across staff teams, our processes and care delivered.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development:
To act as authorised signatory for a delegated budget forpsychological services where needed.Co-ordination of training places and opportunities and subsequent required supervision.To ensure that psychological practitioners and other clinicians within the acute care pathway have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and treating service users via expert clinical consultation and supervision systems.To support and be part of delivering national directives to ensure our services are performing well and are sustainable.To further develop and lead the clinical delivery model across older adultpsychology services to ensure services transform, evolve and meet presenting need within local communities. It will be important that this offer is equitable across the footprint in our work to reduce health inequalities.To further develop and support the adoption and embedding of newpsychological practitioner roles.Attendance at relevant forums, such as the psychological leadership group, psychotherapeutics group and other relevant meetings/ working parties.To provide line management supervision for staff where is appropriate to do so.To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.To contribute to the governance of psychological practice within servicesincluding record keeping standards.To incorporate psychological thinking into key documents such as the business plan, people strategy and quality strategy. Taking a lead on actions from these plans and ensuring this information is shared with all members of the psychology team.To take a strategic lead on embedding psychological mindedness andcompassionate care across the pathway.To be involved in writing cases for new business.To work alongside the Associate Network Director for Psychological Therapies and be responsible for attending and contributing to strategic and development meetings for the servicesTo provide line management and clinical supervision to the psychologicaltherapies team, where needed.To be responsible for the recruitment and retention of additional psychological practitioners.To lead on the systematic governance of psychological practice within older adult servicesTo take a lead for the management of, including any HR processes of thepsychological therapies team.Where required, to support other care hubs and work streams in the delivery of psychological care. This may include supporting colleagues in inpatient services, community services and primary care.To ensure psychological practitioners within the care pathway have the required registration with regulatory bodies and, or accreditation with an appropriate body, to ensure safe practice and appropriate governance assurances.
Teaching, training and supervisionTo be responsible for maintaining own professional registration with HCPC in accordance with professional, ethical and CPD guidance. To ensure andsupport team compliance with professional standards and registration developing and sustaining your knowledge, clinical skill and professional awareness in accordance with their professional body HCPC and CPD guidelines.To support and develop a stepped care framework/ low level interventions within the acute pathway that is needs led.To take a lead role in clinical and management supervisory process.Attend relevant professional and development meetings and networks to contribute to, and maintain awareness of, regional and professionaldevelopments, and to gain peer support and advice.To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of Clinical and/or Counselling Psychology, as appropriate.To contribute to the development of knowledge and skills base within the directorate by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychological therapies and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
Research and service evaluation:To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Further details are available in the JD attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical/ Counselling/ Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, plus further specialist training, research or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy and across a number of areas (such as clinical, research and development, personnel and finance).
- Membership of the HCPC
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psychoanalytic therapies) and in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Evidence of working in the field
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Substantial experience working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of settings including secondary care, community, inpatients and acute care settings, residential
- Experience working within / and or managing multi-disciplinary services
- Experience of teaching and training staff and trainees
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment and intervention and evaluation with a range of common, acute and complex mental health needs.
- Contribute to the Strategic planning and development of psychological services within and across organisations.
- Experience of supervision of others
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the HCPC
- 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
- Ability to work and communicate effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
Skills
Essential
- Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multiprofessional evaluation and audit of psychological services
- Ability to engage a range of professional and nonprofessional groups in cooperative working
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training or equivalent in Clinical/ Counselling/ Psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, plus further specialist training, research or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy and across a number of areas (such as clinical, research and development, personnel and finance).
- Membership of the HCPC
- Additional further training and qualifications in a range of therapeutic models (e.g. CBT, CAT, psychoanalytic therapies) and in the use of specific psychometric and/or neuro-psychological assessment tools.
- Evidence of working in the field
Experience
Essential
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Substantial experience working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of settings including secondary care, community, inpatients and acute care settings, residential
- Experience working within / and or managing multi-disciplinary services
- Experience of teaching and training staff and trainees
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the application of multi-theoretical psychological assessment and intervention and evaluation with a range of common, acute and complex mental health needs.
- Contribute to the Strategic planning and development of psychological services within and across organisations.
- Experience of supervision of others
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
- Evidence of continual professional development as recommended by the HCPC
- 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
- Ability to work and communicate effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
Skills
Essential
- Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multiprofessional evaluation and audit of psychological services
- Ability to engage a range of professional and nonprofessional groups in cooperative working
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).
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).
