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The Consultant Psychologist will oversee the professional standards in psychological practice, offer expert advice, and ensure high-quality clinical record-keeping. This position calls for a compassionate and inspiring leader who is committed to social justice and equity, capable of adapting models of care to meet the needs of service users. Monthly supervision will be provided by the Head of Psychology and the role is integral to fostering a psychologically informed environment that supports recovery.
At Change Grow Live we care deeply about social justice and the work that we do. If you do too and you have the necessary experience then we encourage you to apply for this innovative leadership position. We are looking for a registered Psychologist who has the appropriate competencies and experience to lead our services.
You will already be working at Consultant level or be ready to take this step. You will come from a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist background and have experience of working at a Band C (NHS) equivalent level to provide regional leadership of services and people for the area advertised. In this role you will develop our psychology services and psychosocial interventions offer to support people experiencing difficulties associated with drug and alcohol use.
You will be joining a brilliant national team of Psychologists and qualified counsellors; we also have a range of highly committed and passionate staff who deliver psychosocial interventions whether on a 1-1 basis or in groups. Monthly clinical supervision will be from our Head of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, or their designated leads. Our teams are vibrant, diverse, and multidisciplinary you would be starting in a good place!
If you are compassionate, authentic, inspiring and you want to make a difference, working in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to achieve the best for people, we would encourage you to read our job description.
We want all of our services to be Psychologically Informed. We support people experiencing difficulties associated with a range of challenges, most frequently including drug and alcohol use. We want to focus our Psychology resources to support equity and assure quality and delivery of evidence-based interventions as outlined in Drug Misuse and Dependence: UK Guidelines on Clinical Management 2.
You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams and your focus will be the excellent delivery of recommended specialised interventions. These form the primary Job Plan for all Psychology positions, contributing to supporting recovery and are detailed within our Job Descriptions.
This is a very exciting time for the organisation and Psychology within it, we will need you to see the bigger picture and support us to adapt our models to meet peoples needs. For you to bring your very best to this role you will need to be an open-minded leader of Psychology and Psychological Therapies.
About us
About the role:
- Provide focused support to deliver against the role primary functions as listed above these will lead all delivery and activity and should be considered the primary role specific responsibilities ahead of all others noted.
- Provide professional leadership for all psychological professionals within your service, such that the best professional standards are deployed
- As part of the national Psychology Team and local service team, provide clinical leadership, and support your own services development to deliver psychology, psychosocial therapy and talking therapies within your service and organisational pathways
- Promote integrated health/care professional working Multidisciplinary Team approach
- Provide psychological advice, consultation, and supervision to non-psychologist colleagues where psychological and psychosocial interventions form a key aspect of treatment programmes
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice
- Ensure clinical practice is maintained according to registration requirements, including clinical supervision and CPD
- To participate within relevant local meetings representing the profession of psychology contributing psychological knowledge and expertise
- Support the recruitment of psychology staff, ensuring that required standards of governance, qualification, practice, and registration as determined by the HCPC and other relevant professional bodies are met
- Provide highly developed specialist psychological/neuropsychological assessment, formulation, intervention, offering expert opinion with due regard to issues of cultural, racial, religious difference and sexual orientation
- Lead provision to ensure that interventions provided are trauma informed, evidence based/evidence-informed and delivered in accordance with NICE guidelines and best practice
- Ensure the highest standard of clinical record keeping by all psychological staff, including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the professional guidance and charity policies and procedures, and utilising organisational case management systems
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