Psychological Professions Lead inYork/Harrogate/Northallerton/Scarborough inYork/Harrogate/Northallerton/Scarborough PUBLISHED
FRI 13 DEC 2024
Additionally, the position entails representing psychological professions in strategic groups and collaborating with clinical networks and corporate teams to advance key transformation priorities and the Long Term Plan. The Psychological Professions Lead will also hold accountability for providing highly specialized care for children and young people while fostering the growth and capabilities of the team within the trust.
Psychological Professions Lead - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - North Yorkshire, York and Selby Care Group
The Psychological Professions Lead role has two primary related roles: the professional leadership and development of the Psychological Professions workforce and contribution to multidisciplinary collective leadership at the service management level. With the premise that decision making is devolved, and that leadership is there to cultivate the talents of those within the Care Group, to optimise the quality of care and to ensure that the strategy of the Trust is delivered.
They will be responsible for supporting the Associate Director of Therapies and General Manager with the delivery of the trust strategy and the business plan, supporting service transformation and service delivery to achieve quality standards and embedding co-production with service users and carers.
As part of the collective leadership team at the service management level the Psychological Professions Lead, will provide leadership and oversight of the Psychological Professions Bands 4 - 8c within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services within the North Yorkshire, York and Selby Care Group. This pivotal role offers specialist psychological leadership across the framework of the i-Thrive model. It is expected that the leadership component will comprise 3 days per week of this role.
They will lead and contribute to CAMHS care group and trustwide service transformation, working with the collective leadership team, Clinical Networks and corporate colleagues to embed key aspects of the transformation agenda, the Long Term Plan and partnership priorities and represent the professions on strategic groups as appropriate.
The Psychological Professions Lead will be accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to children and young people and will offer 1 day per week clinical work into a clinical service. This is negotiated based on the skills of the successful candidate and the service need.
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Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academys Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.
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