Key responsibilities include providing strategic clinical leadership, ensuring compliance with service standards and key performance indicators, facilitating community co-production approaches, and administering specialized psychological assessments. Additionally, the candidate should possess strong clinical and leadership skills, be committed to delivering high-quality therapy services, and be adept at managing changes during significant national investment in Talking Therapies. Direct clinical work for the position can be negotiated, allowing for a blend of leadership and therapeutic responsibilities.
Trust Wide Clinical Lead NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression: Consultant Clinical or Counselling Psychologist Or Talking Therapies Psychological Professional
We have a unique and exciting opportunity for an established, innovative Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist (or an NHS Talking Therapies Psychological Therapist with equivalent training and experience) to take a Trust wide clinical lead for our six highly regarded NHS Talking Therapies Services.You will have substantial Consultant level experience (or equivalent) leading psychological services and a detailed understanding NHS Talking Therapies services. The role involves leading the transformation of six large, dynamic and innovative Talking Therapies Services in diverse inner London boroughs and in Milton Keynes. Candidates will have strong clinical and leadership qualities and experience, a commitment to delivering high quality psychological therapy services and a passion for challenging health inequalities and discrimination. The services are at the forefront of developments in Talking Therapies employing Physical Activity Coordinators, Community Engagement Managers and piloting Digital Front Door approaches in addition to the usual Talking Therapies roles. You would be joining us at a time of significant change in investment in Talking Therapies nationally that will deliver improved outcomes for service users.
- To provide strategic clinical leadership across the Trusts 6 Talking Therapies services enabling the transition to the new national model; working closely to support service Clinical and Operational Leads and team
- To tackle inequalities and discrimination, reducing health inequalities in completed treatment and recovery outcome
- To enable transition of service models to engage more people in treatment and more people reaching recovery when completing treatmen
- To ensure enhanced community and service user co-production of service re-desig
- Delivering productivity, innovation and added value gains for the additional investmen
- Improving whole system pathways with primary care, secondary mental health care, acute physical health care and voluntary and community group
- Work across borough, divisional and Trust structures to co-ordinate developments and engage strategic leaders and to work with external strategic partners such as ICB, regional colleagues and national tea
- Form collaborative relationships with partner providers in both North West London and Bedford, Luton & Milton Keynes ICBs
- To lead the growth in research and innovation across the 6 Talking Therapies services.
- To ensure standards, KPIs and directorate targets for Talking Therapies services are being met and reported and contribute to wider system KPIs as appropriate
About us
Up to 0.1 wte time for direct clinical work can be available for the post holder, in a service to be agreed
To provide expertise and be responsible for the provision of a highly specialist Talking Therapies services
To take a lead in the effective working of the service and ensure a psychologically informed framework for the service area.
To select and administer highly specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating highly complex data drawn from several sources
To be expert in the skilled administration of psychometric tests, including skilled manipulation of test materials; and to be able to supervise others in administration of psychometric tests.
To provide expert psychological reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users.
To respond appropriately and professionally to emotionally distressing situations in Talking Therapies and other services and to support others involved in such situations.
To select and deliver evidence based psychological treatments, monitor outcome and modify and adapt interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical options.
To work as an independent and autonomous professional within BPS guidelines and Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) [or other relevant professional body] guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions.
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