Band 8c - Consultant Psychological Therapies - Bristol

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Un établissement de santé mental recherche un clinicien spécialisé en psychologie pour gérer des cas complexes et offrir un leadership aux professionnels. Ce rôle implique le développement et la mise en œuvre de thérapies psychologiques, ainsi qu'une recherche avancée pour améliorer les soins. Les candidats doivent avoir un doctorat en psychologie et une expérience clinique significative.

Qualifications

• Expérience post-qualification substantielle dans un cadre clinique.
• Expertise avancée en supervision clinique.
• Connaissances des processus de gestion dans le NHS.

Responsibilities

• Diriger et motiver des praticiens dans les thérapies psychologiques.
• Gérer un cas spécialisé de patients complexes.
• Fournir des conseils en gestion et en gouvernance clinique.

Skills

Communication

Gestion de cas complexes

Leadership

Évaluation psychologique

Compétences interpersonnelles

Education

Doctorat en Psychologie Clinique ou équivalent

Enregistrement auprès d'un organisme de réglementation équivalent

Qualification clinique spécialisée avancée

Job description

Description of the duties

1. To manage capacity effectively to respond to demand placed upon the service. To act as part of the wider relevant locality management team.
2. To provide leadership and expertise to Psychological Professionals within and beyond the speciality setting.
3. To take the lead role in the development of new developments in relation to Psychological Therapies to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework. Including a focus on the delivery of integrated care with existing services and the development of the evidence base in this area via research and evaluation.
4. To assist and facilitate, e.g., train managers and clinicians to use the skills available within the staff team and other services to develop, evaluate, and deliver a high-quality and coordinated service to service users and their significant others, in line with national and local commissioner expectations.
5. To participate in and provide specialist advice to relevant aspects of policy making, strategic planning, management, and clinical governance in the locality.
6. To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases, providing advice and consultancy for patients and their significant others, and specialist clinical supervision to professionals.
7. To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees, and assistants from all professions within the specialty and across the psychological therapies aspects of other relevant services.
8. To undertake highly specialist research and service evaluation both within and outside the Trust, including contributing to the development of the evidence base in the field and evidencing the work of this new team effectively. To organise and supervise the R&D activities of others.
9. To work in partnership with Service Users, their significant others, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, VCSE organisations to co-produce the design, development, and delivery of services.
10. To work with senior managers and system partners to explore and pursue business opportunities consistent with the divisional business plan.
11. To work across systems/providers in the locality to ensure effective pathways for Service Users.
12. To work alongside the ICB and ICS across both BNSSG and BSW to have an active role in strategic development, aligned to ICB and ICS outcomes.

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Doctorate Level training in Clinical / Counselling Psychology or equivalent professional training for other professions.
• Registered with the HPC or other equivalent regulatory body.
• Advanced Specialist Clinical qualification.

Desirable criteria

• Management training/qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial relevant post qualification experience.
• Consultancy work in multi-professional settings.
• Experience of work across service settings and agencies.
• Significant R&D work in specialist area.
• Clinical audit work in specialist area.
• Work in all areas of clinical governance.
• Teaching/training with own staff group and other professions.
• Advanced expertise in clinical supervision with all grades of staff and with other professions.
• Management of psychology staff or other professions.

Desirable criteria

• Work with Commissioners, including preparation of bids/business cases.
• Professional National role / links (e.g., DCP, BABCP, National Assessor, HAS, CHI etc.)
• Leadership of service redesign.

Specialised Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Expert knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions. Extensive experience with the client group.
• Expert psychological assessment and formulation skills. Expert complex assessments of own patients and also expert opinions to other agencies.
• NHS management processes/system.
• Commissioning arrangements.
• Familiarity with all aspects of clinical governance.
• Publications in specialist area.
• Awareness of key strategic areas and implications for psychological therapy services.

Desirable criteria

• National profile in specialty. Role and links nationally.

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills in highly complex situations.
• Excellent relational/ engagement skills with the client group who present severe and complex mental health problems.
• High level of emotional maturity. Ability to tolerate, reflect upon and transform highly traumatic material and hostile behaviour.
• Ability to cope with extreme workload pressure/prioritise workload.
• Effective leadership.
• Planning and writing business case documents skills.
• Flexible presentation skills appropriate to setting.

Desirable criteria

• Advanced presentation skills.