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Location

Welwyn, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Deputy Clinical Lead - ESE IAPT Talking Therapies

Band 8b

Main area Deputy Clinical Lead - East and South East Team Grade Band 8b Contract Fixed term: 12 months Hours

• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

18.75 hours per week (This is a jobshare therefore the hours need to be arranged in partnership to ensure cover across the week.) Job ref 367-PLAN-8089-A

Site Rosanne House, Parkway, Welwyn, AL8 6HG Town Welwyn Salary £58,972 - £68,525 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary, min £1,192 - max £2,011 Salary period Yearly Closing 12/03/2024 23:59

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

We’re looking for a talented and experienced BABCP accredited Clinical or Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist with proven leadership experience, to lead our strongly established East South East Talking Therapies Service in a split post alongside an already appointed Deputy Clinical Lead.

We are looking to recruit for 18.75 hours a week and the successful applicant will need to work in partnership with their DCL colleague to ensure there is DCL cover across the week. This post would be well suited to those wishing to split these hours with another role.

Whilst this is advertised as a fixed term post for 12 months, there is potential to extend this or for permanent hours to be made available for application in the future.

You need substantial clinical experience in the NHS and the knowledge and ability to lead a clinical team and it's projects from conception to completion, with support of senior colleagues. We need to see a real passion for primary care mental health care and the value it has to its primary stakeholders, our service users.

You will provide specialist supervision, clinical leadership, consultation, guidance and training to Senior Clinicians, CBT therapists, Senior PWPs, PWPs and APs, carrying your own small caseload of clients with common mental illness. You will liaise with and support pathways into our service, including physical health services, as we build integrated pathways.

Main duties of the job

We offer one to one therapy in person and online, responding to the need of our client group. We deliver groups, workshops and webinars, to make our service as accessible as possible to all clients. We strive to deliver an inclusive service, by being a relevant service to all population groups. This includes ongoing training to confidently work with interpreters and adapt therapy as appropriate. We expect our Deputy Clinical Lead to be leading on our values and service goals, and to motivate and inspire their team.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is very important to our team and we have various initiatives to support and encourage diversity, such as representatives in interviews, working groups for ideas to support our clients & cultural competency meetings, to encourage staff conversations to share and learn from other experiences.

We believe that the wider workforce, inclusive of leadership positions, should reflect the wonderful diversity of our clients, and to support them well it is important to continue developing strategies that acknowledge the varying challenges faced, and adapt our selves and our practices where possible to remove barriers and promote a fuller inclusivity.

We hope that the successful candidate will continue to encourage other staff members to be part of some challenging but enlightening conversations and learning, to ensure continuing positive change.

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• You will play a key role in monitoring team and individual performance and working with the Senior Team to responsively implement and sustain strategies of quality improvement.
• To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Primary Care Mental Health Service to clients with mild to moderate mental health problems.
• To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within Primary Care.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
• To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
• To take a lead in establishing the integrated care pathway for LTC in Hertfordshire.

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.

Person specification

Criteria

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology OR Core mental health profession (e.g. nursing, social work, OT) in addition to CBT training meeting BABCP standards
• Current accreditation as a cognitive-behavioural therapist with the BABCP / current eligibility for BABCP accreditation
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Training at Masters level or above in Health Psychology
• Qualification or accreditation in DIT, IPT, EMDR or couples therapy

Experience

• Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical or counselling psychologist with experience at a highly specialised level.
• 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 especially Primary Care, 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 coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of leadership skills development
• Experience of working with people presenting with Long Term Physical Conditions and of supervising staff working with this population
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts

Knowledge and skills

• Skills in use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management requiring sustained concentration
• Well developed skills in communication, orally and in writing, to clients, careres and families and professionals
• skills in providing consultation
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology

Other

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff
• Ability to identify and employ clinical governance mechanisms for clinical practice
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”. This year, our staff rated us the 4 th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.

If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Additional Information

HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.

The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.

Infection Control

All our staff will need to comply with current Infection Prevention and Control measures which could include wearing a mask on all our Trust sites and in all roles

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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