- Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a significant period , including post qualification experience within the designated specialty where the post is located.
- Substantial demonstrable experience of working with a wide variety of client 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 including 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of providing consultation, supervision and training to multidisciplinary staff.
- Experience of leading change within a service or organisation
- Experience of implementing clinical governance procedures
- Experience of working as a Consultant Psychologist
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of delegated responsibility regarding the management of budgets
- Experience of managing performance and grievance issues
- Doctoral level knowledge of applied psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies
- Expertise in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment formulations intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed and efficient communication skills, oral and written, to communicate complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level (or equivalent) knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Formal training in supervision of psychologists and/or other psychological professionals
- Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems
- Skills and experience of using leadership models and the application of models of change at a service level
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
- Post-graduate doctoral level training that confers HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Registration with Health & Care Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice
Deputy Associate Director of Psychological Services MHCD - Prescot, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job overview
We are recruiting a permanent Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to work in the Mental Health Care Division (MHCD) as a deputy to the Associate Director of Psychological Services. This is a new post to support the division psychological structures. We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and committed Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our division.
The Post holder will provide professional leadership across the service lines within MHCD as well as supporting clinical pathway developments, supporting workforce initiatives, overseeing and implementing research projects, overseeing KPI monitoring and reporting and line managing psychology colleagues. It is an exciting new opportunity to influence the psychological support we provide to the client and families that we serve.
This is a key role within the MHCD bringing psychological expertise and clinical leadership to further enhance clinical service delivery.
If you have a passion for providing exceptional care and are looking for an exciting, and challenging role we would welcome your talents and skills.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for supporting CPD planning and demand and capacity work. Standardising job descriptions, standardising job plans and advising on psychological workforce issues.
To be responsible for supporting standardised and joined up clinical pathway development across service lines. Leading on Experts by Experience involvement in service design and delivery. Monitoring and oversight of Perfect care goals.
The post holder will be responsible for standardising and overseeing psychology KPI reporting processes and monitoring and reporting performance against KPIs. To line manage psychology lead staff as required, to provide input into the PACE process and to manage performance and grievance issues.
The post holder will deputise for the divisional psychology lead at SLT when required, at professional leadership forums when required. Also, on particular groups linked to the above responsibilities e.g. representing the psychological voice in the role out of Trust initiatives within the division.
To have oversight of implementation of the Trust's research plan within Mental HealthCare Division.
Liaison with the Mental Health Research and Innovation Centre to facilitate the appropriate participation of psychological professionals in research projects.
The post holder will be required to work across different service lines utilising a knowledge of the wider divisional agenda that individual service line leads would not possess.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
As an organisation we are committed to our Perfect Care Goal on Anti-racism and so are employing positive action where we know there is underrepresentation and for this position therefore, we encourage applications from people who are from BME communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the service, based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological) tests, self-report measures, rating scales direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals/carers/families and/or groups employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the psychological treatment of and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, contributing directly to clients' formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan in an appropriate specialist area.
To ensure that all relevant staff have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research and theory in an appropriate specialist area.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for relevant individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To act as key worker, only where it is clearly appropriate for this role to be undertaken by a psychologist, in which case, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the client's needs, co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, taking responsibility for arranging client's reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his/her family and all others involved in care; and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
To provide expertise and advice to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all relevant staff.
To provide consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff and agencies outside the Trust in an appropriate specialist area.
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