Job summary
We are recruiting a Director of Psychological services (CPPO) the most senior Psychologist within SHSC, to lead one of the faster growing professional groups within the NHS receiving significant investment over the last 5 years. This post is key to drive forward the ambitions of the NHS long term workforce plan and the local 3-year Psychological Professions plan with the 6 key priorities (see attached link to the psychological profession plan for more information).
https://jarvis.shsc.nhs.uk/documents/psychological-professions-plan
TheDirector of Psychological services will take responsibility for delegated Trust wide portfolio and work as part of a professional leadership team with other Directors, supporting SHSC to deliver on its strategic plans, policy and service development and clinical leadership across SHSC, Sheffield at place and with the South Yorkshire ICB.
This vacancy has arisen as the current Director will be stepping down from the role as part of a retirement plan.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of job are outlined in the job description in summary include:
Holding accountability for ensuring that all aspects of quality good governance within the Psychological Professionals across the Trust are managed in conjunction with the trust's clinical strategy.
Line Management responsibilities for the Psychology Leadership group.
Values led services that are coproduced with service users delivering care that is person centred, strengths based, trauma informed, and evidence led.
Work with other Directors to share responsibilities for the safe operational delivery of mental health services within SHSCFT via the Operational management Governance meetings.
Work strategically and corporately in partnership with Operational Management Teams and executive board members within the Trust to ensure that the psychological professions fully contribute to service design, patient outcomes and experience and ensuring Psychological Professionals across the Trust are heard, informed, and engaged in delivering the Trust strategy.
Co-lead the Sheffield Psychology Board to contribute to Sheffield place based developments and objectives. Alongside working in partnership with psychological leaders across South Yorkshire ICB.
About us
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The below outlines some of the detailed key job description-
Scope and Range of the role: The Director role holds responsibility for over 400 Psychological Practitioners: Psychological Therapists: Psychologists and Assistants and Trainees. With a Professional Resource approximately £12.5m, Direct Budget £4.0+.
Senior Operational Management: The role holds Line Management responsibilities for the Psychology Leadership group, including Clinical Director Sheffield Talking Treatments: Director of Clinical Practice at Sheffield University, Deputy Director Psychological Professions /Consultant leaders and will ensure leadership, management, training and development of Psychological Services. Ensure effective systems are in place for appraisals, supervision and development
Service Improvement and Governance; ensure professional clinical governance and good systems and oversight of quality clinical practice.
Financial and Human Resources Management: responsible as a budget holder for setting and managing the budgets for specified Psychological Services across Trusts and organisations including securing and managing the separate multi-stranded funding streams/services across agencies, initiating, and developing services and responding to cost pressures as appropriate.
Strategic/planning: Implement and deliver on the 3-year SHSCFT Psychological Professions strategic plan.
Leadership: Work as a system partner in a senior leadership role in the ICS and provide a pivotal role in the developments in a systems and Place approach through co-chairing/leading the Sheffield Psychology Board and the ICB Psychology leaders group to develop shared strategic approaches to complex issues.
Be responsible for establishing leading and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional, and national groups.
Psychological Workforce & maintaining Business Contracts: Work with directors to scope new markets for psychological services, creating new partnerships with stakeholders, commissioners and partner organisations for sustainable future.
Play a lead role in commissioning on behalf of South Yorkshire for clinical psychology training in partnership with York and Humber multi-professional deanery. Provide advice on clinical psychology and other psychological therapies training and workforce issues regionally and nationally from a service perspective.
Clinical: the role will involve clinical case reviews leading complex case forums, ethics committees and also investigatory process, requiring the post holder to work as an expert clinician.
Policy and service development: Take a lead role locally, regionally and, when appropriate, nationally in service and policy development and implementation with regard to clinical psychology, psychological therapies and psychological health and wellbeing.
Research: Promote evidence-based practice and the involvement in research activity, generation and utilisation of research findings through encouraging a culture of CPD and ongoing training and development in line with the Psychological Professions plan.
Teaching, training, and supervision: Ensure that all professional staff within Psychological Services are accessing and utilising clinical and professional supervision, appraisal and systems for continuing professional development.
Workforce Development and Strategic planning: Lead, participate and work with the Trusts People/Workforce groups to design and deliver the new national workforce strategy which is linked to the SHSC Psychological Professions Plan.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The below outlines some of the detailed key job description-
Scope and Range of the role: The Director role holds responsibility for over 400 Psychological Practitioners: Psychological Therapists: Psychologists and Assistants and Trainees. With a Professional Resource approximately £12.5m, Direct Budget £4.0+.
Senior Operational Management: The role holds Line Management responsibilities for the Psychology Leadership group, including Clinical Director Sheffield Talking Treatments: Director of Clinical Practice at Sheffield University, Deputy Director Psychological Professions /Consultant leaders and will ensure leadership, management, training and development of Psychological Services. Ensure effective systems are in place for appraisals, supervision and development
Service Improvement and Governance; ensure professional clinical governance and good systems and oversight of quality clinical practice.
Financial and Human Resources Management: responsible as a budget holder for setting and managing the budgets for specified Psychological Services across Trusts and organisations including securing and managing the separate multi-stranded funding streams/services across agencies, initiating, and developing services and responding to cost pressures as appropriate.
Strategic/planning: Implement and deliver on the 3-year SHSCFT Psychological Professions strategic plan.
Leadership: Work as a system partner in a senior leadership role in the ICS and provide a pivotal role in the developments in a systems and Place approach through co-chairing/leading the Sheffield Psychology Board and the ICB Psychology leaders group to develop shared strategic approaches to complex issues.
Be responsible for establishing leading and maintaining strong and effective partnerships and stakeholder relationships across local, regional, and national groups.
Psychological Workforce & maintaining Business Contracts: Work with directors to scope new markets for psychological services, creating new partnerships with stakeholders, commissioners and partner organisations for sustainable future.
Play a lead role in commissioning on behalf of South Yorkshire for clinical psychology training in partnership with York and Humber multi-professional deanery. Provide advice on clinical psychology and other psychological therapies training and workforce issues regionally and nationally from a service perspective.
Clinical: the role will involve clinical case reviews leading complex case forums, ethics committees and also investigatory process, requiring the post holder to work as an expert clinician.
Policy and service development: Take a lead role locally, regionally and, when appropriate, nationally in service and policy development and implementation with regard to clinical psychology, psychological therapies and psychological health and wellbeing.
Research: Promote evidence-based practice and the involvement in research activity, generation and utilisation of research findings through encouraging a culture of CPD and ongoing training and development in line with the Psychological Professions plan.
Teaching, training, and supervision: Ensure that all professional staff within Psychological Services are accessing and utilising clinical and professional supervision, appraisal and systems for continuing professional development.
Workforce Development and Strategic planning: Lead, participate and work with the Trusts People/Workforce groups to design and deliver the new national workforce strategy which is linked to the SHSC Psychological Professions Plan.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of the health and social care system, including commissioning, System working/ICB, workforce standardisation, health and inequalities.
- Expert level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex information to staff, service users and family/carers
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology - implementing this in clinical practice. Leading others in evidence base interventions -promoting and leading good practice
- Knowledge of legislation and policy and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and psychological health.
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychology or equivalent in psychology
Training and qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS and HCPC, including specifically, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Further specialist post-doctoral training, supervision and experience in specific psychological approaches
- Registered with the appropriate regulatory body as a psychological professional e.g. HCPC- BABCP- etc
- Core mental health professional - who has trained as a psychological professional fully qualified and registered as a psychological professional with the correct overseeing professional body
- For those without a Doctoral qualification - require Master's level qualification in relevant clinical training or leadership/management
- Formal training and qualifications in management and leadership.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist/psychological practitioner with substantial experience at consultant grade. Including working at Trust level, local placed based, ICB and National levels.
- Experience of the full range of management activities including defining appropriate staffing establishments, grading and recruitment procedures, performance/appraisal.
- Experience of leading and managing major organisational change and service improvement-complex HR processes
- Experience of representing one or more psychological profession in local and national policy fora. Working and leading psychological professionals across systems e.g placed based/ICB
- Significant experience of leading psychological practitioners and other professional groups within NHS settings
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of the health and social care system, including commissioning, System working/ICB, workforce standardisation, health and inequalities.
- Expert level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex information to staff, service users and family/carers
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology - implementing this in clinical practice. Leading others in evidence base interventions -promoting and leading good practice
- Knowledge of legislation and policy and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and psychological health.
- Doctoral level knowledge of psychology or equivalent in psychology
Training and qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by BPS and HCPC, including specifically, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Further specialist post-doctoral training, supervision and experience in specific psychological approaches
- Registered with the appropriate regulatory body as a psychological professional e.g. HCPC- BABCP- etc
- Core mental health professional - who has trained as a psychological professional fully qualified and registered as a psychological professional with the correct overseeing professional body
- For those without a Doctoral qualification - require Master's level qualification in relevant clinical training or leadership/management
- Formal training and qualifications in management and leadership.
Experience
Essential
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist/psychological practitioner with substantial experience at consultant grade. Including working at Trust level, local placed based, ICB and National levels.
- Experience of the full range of management activities including defining appropriate staffing establishments, grading and recruitment procedures, performance/appraisal.
- Experience of leading and managing major organisational change and service improvement-complex HR processes
- Experience of representing one or more psychological profession in local and national policy fora. Working and leading psychological professionals across systems e.g placed based/ICB
- Significant experience of leading psychological practitioners and other professional groups within NHS settings
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).
