PCE Counselling for Depression Clinical Manager

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

italk is an exciting, transformative and expanding Primary Care Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service commissioned by NHS Hampshire. The range of services we currently offer include those for individuals experiencing mental health difficulties (italk core). We are significantly expanding the offer of psychological therapy for people with long term conditions, working in collaboration with health services including community respiratory, musculoskeletal, perinatal and diabetes teams (italk health). Our italk@work programme offers a range of services to enable organisations and industries to support the emotional wellbeing of their employees. We are a strong partnership service; comprised of a collaboration between Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and Solent Mind charity.

As part of the expansion of our Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD) team we are excited to be able to recruit for a PCE-CfD Clinical Manager who will need to be eligible to apply for accreditation with the BACP, who will retain line management responsibility, provide relevant supervision, co-ordination of service and provide direct client activity. In addition, you will contribute to the overall operational management of the IAPT service and primary care service developments across Hampshire in line with national programme targets and system transformation requirements in the primary care setting and have designated lead roles (to be agreed with Clinical Leadership Development Team).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the Clinical Lead Service Manager in the operational and clinical implementation of the Hampshire Psychological Therapies Service within the West CCG, North CCG, South East CCG and Fareham & Gosport CCG areas NHS Hampshire has commissioned. This post holder will be eligible to apply for accreditation with the BACP and will retain line management responsibility, providing relevant supervision, co-ordination of service and provide direct client activity. In addition, they will contribute to the overall operational management of the IAPT service and primary care service developments across Hampshire in line with national programme targets and system transformation requirements in the primary care setting and have designated lead roles (to be agreed with Clinical Leadership Development Team).

The post holder will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to facilitate primary care service developments across Hampshire in line with national programme targets and system transformation requirements in the primary care setting.

The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Date posted

12 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£48,526 to £54,619 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-MNH-C-1050A

Job locations

Black Horse House

3rd Floor, 8 - 10 Leigh Road

Eastleigh

Hampshire

SO50 9FH

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Work with the Clinical Lead Service Manager to ensure all policies and procedures are developed and implemented for the safe running of the service and protocols in place between Step 2 and 4

*Day to day co-ordination of a cluster and ensure the management of staff adheres to all organisational HR policies and procedures

*Assist in the development and implementation of relevant governance arrangements to support the italk service

*Contribute to ensuring all aspects of the service meet the standards as laid down by the national programme

*Ensure that all reports required nationally, regionally and locally are produced and submitted on time

*Support the implementation of a communication strategy so that both internally and externally all involved are knowledgeable about the service and its delivery

*Delegated responsibility (if required) for budgetary and financial arrangements for aspects of the service and be able to report progress/issues at agreed intervals

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Work with the Clinical Lead Service Manager to ensure all policies and procedures are developed and implemented for the safe running of the service and protocols in place between Step 2 and 4

*Day to day co-ordination of a cluster and ensure the management of staff adheres to all organisational HR policies and procedures

*Assist in the development and implementation of relevant governance arrangements to support the italk service

*Contribute to ensuring all aspects of the service meet the standards as laid down by the national programme

*Ensure that all reports required nationally, regionally and locally are produced and submitted on time

*Support the implementation of a communication strategy so that both internally and externally all involved are knowledgeable about the service and its delivery

*Delegated responsibility (if required) for budgetary and financial arrangements for aspects of the service and be able to report progress/issues at agreed intervals

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional qualification in health or social care (or post-graduate training and qualifications in another sector to enable equivalent levels of responsibility with the client group in that setting)
Qualified in Person Centred Experiential Counselling for depression.
Membership and eligible for accreditation for the BACP.
Additional specialist training relating to the clinical role as clinical supervisor.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional qualification in health or social care (or post-graduate training and qualifications in another sector to enable equivalent levels of responsibility with the client group in that setting)
Qualified in Person Centred Experiential Counselling for depression.
Membership and eligible for accreditation for the BACP.
Additional specialist training relating to the clinical role as clinical supervisor.

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

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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).