Associate Network Director of Psychological Therapies

The Associate Network Director of Psychological Therapies joins the leadership team of Pennine Care NHS FT's Mental Health Network, providing strategic direction for acute and community psychological pathways. Core work is service standards and improvement plans, governance, and clinical and professional leadership for psychological therapies staff across the Trust, including national guidance implementation. The post keeps a small clinical caseload, deputises for the Chief Psychological Professions Officer and joins the Gold on-call rota. Applicants need a clinical psychology doctorate and HCPC registration.

What the job involves

• Provide strategic leadership for the acute and community pathways in the Mental Health Network
• Develop service strategies and improvement plans that promote consistent standards and outcomes across the footprint
• Ensure accountability and governance are in place within the network and support Trust strategic objectives and statutory requirements
• Create the right culture and environment for high performance and model the Trust values
• Provide clinical and professional leadership for all psychological therapies staff in the network and across the Trust where indicated
• Give clinical and professional advice on psychological practice and assurance on psychological approaches
• Lead the implementation of national guidance and policy on the delivery and governance of psychological therapies
• Contribute to quality improvement and transformation agendas and liaise with the wider system
• Retain a small caseload and provide a specialist clinical role within a psychological service
• Deputise for the Chief Psychological Professions Officer as appropriate
• Work with the Chief Psychological Professions Officer, network senior leadership, locality operational managers and commissioners
• Join the Gold on-call rota

Qualifications

• Good honours degree in psychology
• Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society
• BPS-accredited doctorate in clinical psychology, or equivalent for those trained before 1996, covering psychopathology models, psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more psychological theories and lifespan…
• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist (clinical)

Experience

• Substantial experience working as a clinical psychologist
• Working with a wide range of client groups across the life course in varied settings, including highly emotive or threatening situations
• Staff, team and service management, including clinical and professional management of clinical psychologists and other psychological therapists
• Strategic service development and evaluation
• Multi-agency working and representing the profession or service in local policy forums

Skills & knowledge

• Complex psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Teaching, training, clinical supervision and consultation for lay and professional audiences
• Communicating complex, clinically sensitive information clearly in writing and orally
• Strategic thinking and planning at clinical and service level
• Coping with complex, high-stress team and system dynamics and significant clinical and ethical challenges
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and professional guidelines, and ability to apply them in practice

What’s offered

• Generous annual leave for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to continuing professional development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and wellbeing activities and access to a staff wellbeing service
• Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

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