About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting clinical leadership role in which you will be challenged and supported to develop your potential. Visionary and strategic in approach, you will champion a culture based on principles of recovery, compassion, choice, and personalised care.
You will be committed to providing evidence-based practice and will be aware of current national drivers relating to mental health services for people with Complex Emotional Needs. Working closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will be central to the development of treatment pathway for people with complex emotional needs, pulling together established DBT and CAT practitioners and working alongside other Principle Psychologists in the mood disorder pathway and Psychosis Pathway.
You will offer supervision, training and reflective practice to staff within the service. You will also devote some time to direct clinical work alongside a dedicated team of therapists.
Main duties of the job
As a senior clinician with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of psychological expertise within the Community Mental Health Service.
Working with the leadership team, clinical staff and peer support staff towards the development and maintenance of a multi-professional therapeutic environment will aim to provide the highest quality psychologically informed care for adults with severe mental health problems.
The postholder will also provide management and specialist clinical supervision to other psychological professionals working within the Community Mental Health Teams in Fareham CMHT and Gosport CMHT. Where there may be gaps in the service, providing support to other patches within the division in agreement with the Lead Psychologist. The duties will include ensuring job planning, pathways being embedded in their geographical patch and providing performance and quality data to the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
The post holder will provide strategic oversight to the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway to ensure equitable provisions for patients under secondary care in the PSEH division. The role has a potential to develop across the division. This will include bringing alignment to the DBT teams within the division and holding conversation with other teams to support the development of complex emotional needs offer.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience. Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist. Accredited or well experienced in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Desirable
Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy. Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP ACAT or similar body. Management / leadership training.
Experience Essential
In depth experience of working as a senior clinical psychologist. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings. Maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision. Experience of managing staff. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems. Competency in the application of interventions for people who have severe and enduring mental health problems. Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with individuals and indirectly via supervision of other staff. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups. Ability to constructively manage situations and people at times of conflict. Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC. Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines Knowledge of and a commitment to a recovery focused approach and to positive risk taking. Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases. Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services. An ability to travel between sites as required.
Additional Criteria Essential
Providing compassionate, safe care Listening Communicating clearly Building relationships Acting with honesty and integrity Taking responsibility Doing what we say we will do
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).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Hewat Centre
Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Road
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 3PW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)