Clinical Groups Lead - Band 8a

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist at Integrated Care System in London. Lead and manage group-based interventions, ensuring a client-oriented and culturally sensitive approach while focusing on clinical effectiveness through both face-to-face and digital platforms. Join a renowned organization committed to improving the quality of life through high standards of care and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• BABCP accreditation and/or HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist required.
• Experience in a NHS Talking Therapies setting essential.
• Experience delivering group-based interventions is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Manage clinical group service provision and waiting lists.
• Supervise individual and group-based interventions.
• Coordinate with colleagues for appropriate care packages.

Skills

Supervision

Group-based interventions

Clinical effectiveness

Empathy

Education

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist qualification

Formal Supervision training

Qualification in delivering groups interventions

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist / CBT Therapist to join a high performing and creative management team within Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies (THTT). We are part of East London NHS Foundation Trust which has been named one of the HSJ Top 10 best places to work in healthcare, HSJ Provider Trust of the Year and graded as 'Outstanding' for a second consecutive year by our regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We believe that staff who feel valued by the Trust and are truly engaged in the organisation deliver better outcomes for our patients. This Trust is clinician-led, and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We have set ourselves the mission to improve the quality of life of all we serve, and have embarked on an ambitious Quality Improvement Programme to transform the culture of the Trust to one of continuous improvement, delivered through participation of all staff and with service users, carers and families at the heart of our efforts to improve.

THTT is one of the leading national IAPT services and we are keen to recruit an experienced CBT Therapist / Clinical / Counselling Psychologist who will lead on the management, supervision and delivery of effective group-based interventions across modalities and steps of care and focus on maintaining clinical effectiveness and developing future delivery through a digital platform

Main duties of the job

The primary purpose of this role is to manage the clinical group service provision within Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies, by ensuring sufficient capacity; managing group waiting lists and reviewing and introducing new clinical group offers alongside pre- and post-therapy groups.

The role would be to lead on the delivery and supervision of group-based interventions across modalities and steps of care and focus on maintaining clinical effectiveness of groups through face to face and digital platforms. The role would need to ensure that group-based interventions are delivered in a client-oriented and culturally sensitive way.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Deputy Clinical Lead, to co-ordinate and develop the provision of group-based interventions. This will include waitlist management, being the clinical point of contact and liaising with colleagues to provide appropriate packages of care to Tower Hamlets residents.

Provide specialist clinical supervision (for individual and group based interventions) in individual and group formats to therapists with varying degrees of experience

Provide line management to a team of HI therapists and PWPs

Provide case management to a team of HI therapists/ PWPs and support them to deliver on performance and recovery targets.

Support the management team to meet key performance indicators

Contribute to service developments and support the interface with other providers including secondary care psychology services.

Provide a clinical service to clients and to complete a small number of triages.

Introduce effective pre and post therapy groups and workshops to support the service to achieve access and outcome KPIs.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications/ Training

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (Post Graduate Diploma level or above) with full BABCP accreditation and/or HCPC registered Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
• Formal Supervision training
• Qualification in delivering groups interventions (certificate from a recognized training organisation)

Experience

• Experience of working in an NHS Talking Therapies setting, or delivering treatment to primary care clients, liaising and consulting with GPs and community providers.
• Experience delivering group based interventions
• Experience of either managing or coordinating wait lists.
• Experience in developing services to respond to Service User needs.
• Excellence and experience in the continuous improvement of high and/or low intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers, with experience of delivering this within primary care and or an NHS Talking Therapies compliant service
• Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
• Experience in managing and delivering to the expected performance targets.
• Excellence and experience in IT and diary management that support own and the service's clinical resources
• Work in a multi-cultural setting, including working with interpreters.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent reporting and presentation skills.
• Able to provide & receive complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
• Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance.
• Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
• Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation.
• Able to arrive at appropriate formulations.
• Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
• Able to demonstrate expertise in one or more therapeutic orientations, or with one or more areas of clinical presentation.
• Able to provide an appropriate clinical service to a diverse population.
• Able to work to agreed targets and monitor own work effectively.
• Understanding of, and commitment to, the supervision process.
• Experience of supervising other's clinical work. Able to organise and deliver teaching and training
• Able to contribute a Psychological perspective in work with other professional groups.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.