Job summary
Job Title: Clinical Psychologist
Reports to: Senior Clinical Psychologist
This is a remote based position but must be based in the UK
Direct Reports: 0-2
Role Objective: Support the Clinical Governance function at Kooth to ensure we are providing safe, clinically robust, evidence-informed care at all times.
Main duties of the job
Key Components
- Clinical Governance, including staff support - 50%
- Safeguarding - 15%
- Analytics, Reporting and Insights - 15%
- Management and Leadership - 10%
- Clinical Training - 10%
- Stakeholder management - 10%
About us
Kooth is a fast growing business with a social purpose. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:KOO), our mission is to provide welcoming and effective digital mental health support to the nation.
Working in partnership with the NHS, we are already the UKs largest digital mental health platform for young people aged 10-25. We are now rapidly expanding into supporting the NHS adult population, providing corporate solutions to help build mentally healthy businesses, and expanding internationally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Governance:
- Support the auditing of casenotes, transcripts and associated activity to ensure quality of both online and face to face services.
- To highlight any performance issues that may arise from the clinical audit and advise Senior Practitioners/managers regarding recommendations for further development/review and support this process as required.
- Support the implementation of specialist clinical models and therapeutic approaches within the Service Delivery teams.
- To provide a responsive clinical advisory service to all delivery staff and Senior Practitioners via the clinical request/safeguarding log and relevant emails; taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning current, historical and developmental processes, and being accountable for any actions/advice given.
- To attend clinical supervision with a supervisor approved by CCO.
- To support other teams in their activities, where appropriate, e.g. marketing, engagement, research, product and technology, to ensure there is clinical input and any relevant activities are safe, evidence-informed, and clinically robust.
Safeguarding:- Support our safeguarding processes including the user safety incident framework.
- To support the safeguarding team in their responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People at all times and to advise/support Service Delivery and other teams as appropriate regarding best practice.
- To work as part of a team offering out of hours support to staff working online on a rota based system (dependent on experience); including enabling and supporting senior Practitioners and Shift Leads to manage risk in line with safeguarding best practice.
Analytics, Reporting and Insights:
- To undertake regular evaluation and monitoring of aspects of clinical delivery.
- To support the regular analysis and reporting of clinically relevant data.
Clinical Training:- To support the development/improvement and delivery of specialist training packages that can be delivered both internally and externally.
- To contribute to the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
Management and Leadership:- To ensure that clinical activity is underpinned by the needs of all service users as defined by the i-RESPOND clinical operating model.
- Support the delivery team in providing specialist assessments based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources within a digital framework.
- To support organisational priorities and projects to contribute to service development.
- To encourage a culture of evidence based practice in all parts of the organisation.
Stakeholder Management:
- To contribute to external meetings with stakeholders as appropriate, including supporting the Commercial and Engagement teams with external activities.
- To contribute to complex communications with different stakeholders, both internally and externally, at a range of levels.
- To support external events such as webinars, conferences or other public speaking opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Governance:
- Support the auditing of casenotes, transcripts and associated activity to ensure quality of both online and face to face services.
- To highlight any performance issues that may arise from the clinical audit and advise Senior Practitioners/managers regarding recommendations for further development/review and support this process as required.
- Support the implementation of specialist clinical models and therapeutic approaches within the Service Delivery teams.
- To provide a responsive clinical advisory service to all delivery staff and Senior Practitioners via the clinical request/safeguarding log and relevant emails; taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning current, historical and developmental processes, and being accountable for any actions/advice given.
- To attend clinical supervision with a supervisor approved by CCO.
- To support other teams in their activities, where appropriate, e.g. marketing, engagement, research, product and technology, to ensure there is clinical input and any relevant activities are safe, evidence-informed, and clinically robust.
Safeguarding:- Support our safeguarding processes including the user safety incident framework.
- To support the safeguarding team in their responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People at all times and to advise/support Service Delivery and other teams as appropriate regarding best practice.
- To work as part of a team offering out of hours support to staff working online on a rota based system (dependent on experience); including enabling and supporting senior Practitioners and Shift Leads to manage risk in line with safeguarding best practice.
Analytics, Reporting and Insights:
- To undertake regular evaluation and monitoring of aspects of clinical delivery.
- To support the regular analysis and reporting of clinically relevant data.
Clinical Training:- To support the development/improvement and delivery of specialist training packages that can be delivered both internally and externally.
- To contribute to the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
Management and Leadership:- To ensure that clinical activity is underpinned by the needs of all service users as defined by the i-RESPOND clinical operating model.
- Support the delivery team in providing specialist assessments based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources within a digital framework.
- To support organisational priorities and projects to contribute to service development.
- To encourage a culture of evidence based practice in all parts of the organisation.
Stakeholder Management:
- To contribute to external meetings with stakeholders as appropriate, including supporting the Commercial and Engagement teams with external activities.
- To contribute to complex communications with different stakeholders, both internally and externally, at a range of levels.
- To support external events such as webinars, conferences or other public speaking opportunities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS
- Professional registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Post-qualification experience with children, young people and vulnerable adults in one or more clinical areas.
Desirable
- Desired:
- Supervision qualification
- Leadership qualification/experience
- Trained to a minimum of L3 Safeguarding.
- Experience working online/in digital mental health.
- Experience working with neurodiversity/cognitive difficulties.
- This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional qualification in Clinical Psychology at doctoral level (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS
- Professional registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
- Post-qualification experience with children, young people and vulnerable adults in one or more clinical areas.
Desirable
- Desired:
- Supervision qualification
- Leadership qualification/experience
- Trained to a minimum of L3 Safeguarding.
- Experience working online/in digital mental health.
- Experience working with neurodiversity/cognitive difficulties.
- This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
