Consultant Clinical Lead - Psychological Services for Psychosis

Job summary

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to lead the onward development of psychological services for individuals experiencing psychosis and their families across Hertfordshire.

You will work across Adult Community Mental Health Services and Early Intervention in Psychosis Services to oversee the provision of psychological services for this population. They will work closely with colleagues in other HPFT services and partner organisations to ensure the delivery of high quality of care for individuals with psychosis and their carers and families across systems.

The post holder will be a key member of a senior leadership team working together to deliver community service transformation to achieve the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan for Mental Health. We are seeking an imaginative and driven professional with a strong track record around driving forward service improvements for individuals with psychosis and their families.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a senior Trust clinical lead on the provision and delivery of multidisciplinary, recovery-oriented community-based services for psychosis across Hertfordshire, developing an embedded specialist service provision for those with psychosis, working in an integrated way within community-based teams.
• Working within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to actively facilitate psychologically informed ways of working with people with psychosis across the county.
• To provide highly advanced clinical leadership and ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the supervision and governance of psychological practice for specialist staff working with psychosis.
• To provide training, development, and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions for people with psychosis, working across community and inpatient services, and other services as needed within the Trust.
• To ensure robust supervision, informal consultation, and clinical support to junior colleagues within the designated quadrants.
• To provide clinical leadership within the designated quadrants, working closely with other consultant grade staff within psychological services who have operational management responsibilities.
• To provide psychological therapies to individuals within the North quadrant and consultation to those in other quadrants.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.

Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties of the role in liaison with other senior leadership roles includes:

• Responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice across the service and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice.
• To ensure supervision and support for other clinical staff who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• To act as a highly specialised resource to the team and local system.
• To pro-actively contribute, with other senior clinical and professional leads to the development and articulation of best practice in psychological interventions and psychologically informed practice across the service.
• To hold a psychological therapies clinical caseload and to work as part of the multi disciplinary service.
• To support the development and training of other workers, which includes Clinical Associate Psychologist Trainees, Mental Health Wellbeing Trainees, CBT Therapists.
• To work with colleagues to measure outcomes to enable service improvement.

Person Specification

Knowledge Training and Experience:

Essential

• FOR CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS: Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• FOR CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS: Further training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal postdoctoral training (diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice with an experienced clinical supervisor, at an equivalent level to a postgraduate diploma. Completion of a clinical supervision training A A (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• FOR CLINICAL / COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS: Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• FOR ADULT CBT Therapists: Post-graduate training in Psychotherapy provided by one of the BACP Accredited courses and Accreditation with the BACP.
• FOR ADULT CBT Therapists: Evidence of further training in treatment techniques or areas of clinical need, and knowledge of management or research. E.g. Having taken the Supervisors Course for Adult Psychotherapy.
• FOR ADULT CBT Therapists: Registered with the BABCP.

Desirable

• Post graduate management qualification.
• Management/ leadership training.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Extensive experience as working as a qualified practitioner within Adult Mental Health Services.
• Experience of teaching, training and professional supervision of other specialist practitioners.
• Demonstrable ability to utilise and interpret Psychometric Tests competently.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge and demonstrable skills in clinical audit and evaluation.

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

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.
UK Registration

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