About this role
Job summary
Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!
Here in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR), we are innovatively transforming ways of working with people with relational and emotional difficulties often described diagnostically as Personality Disorder. We are seeking an exceptional Consultant Practitioner Psychologist to help shape and lead this innovative programme of service transformation across both specialist and system-wide provision.
The Consultant Practitioner Psychologist will work as part of a multi-professional leadership team offering senior clinical and psychological leadership within our enhanced secondary care provision.
They will also play a key role in shaping system-wide strategy, influencing service development across organisational boundaries and embedding psychologically informed approaches across the wider health and care system.
The enhanced secondary care service has a multidisciplinary workforce including Psychologists, a Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners.
We will offer a range of psychological and psychologically-informed approaches within the tradition of trauma-informed care, including Structured Clinical Management, Specialist Case Management, Mentalization-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Analytic Therapy.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Consultant or aspiring Consultant Practitioner Psychologist who is passionate about clinical leadership, service innovation and improving outcomes for people with complex emotional and relational needs. You will join a supportive leadership team with genuine opportunities to influence practice and service development at scale. The role provides opportunities to lead across all four domains of consultant practice, including expert clinical work, leadership, workforce development, service evaluation and research.
Working as part of a senior multi-professional leadership team, you will lead the development and delivery of a compassionate, evidence-based and psychologically informed model of care.
You will play a pivotal role in embedding and developing specialist approaches including Structured Clinical Management (SCM), specialist case management, Mentalisation Based Treatment (MBT), and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). You will provide supervision, consultation, teaching and reflective practice, support workforce development and assure clinical governance. You will contribute to service evaluation, research, audit and quality improvement, and lead the implementation of innovation and best practice. Working collaboratively with community, inpatient, urgent care, primary care, VCSE and local authority partners, you will develop and strengthen integrated pathways and improve outcomes for service users.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.
Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.
We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).
All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.
Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
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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.
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Gwendolen House
Gwendolen Road
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE5 4QF
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)