Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Bexleyheath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking an innovative clinical psychologist to lead and enhance psychological therapy services. This pivotal role involves overseeing a range of therapies, including CBT and neuropsychology, while shaping the future of Older People's Mental Health services. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care to diverse client groups. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health and possess strong leadership and clinical skills, this opportunity offers a supportive environment to thrive and contribute meaningfully to patient care.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Multidisciplinary team collaboration

Qualifications

• Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology and HCPC registration required.
• Substantial experience as a qualified clinical psychologist is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership and oversight of psychological therapies.
• Enhance quality and reach of services ensuring evidence-based care.

Skills

Clinical Psychology

Leadership

Neuropsychology

Psychotherapy

Supervision

Communication

Service Development

Multicultural Competence

Education

Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology

HCPC registration

Additional qualification in therapy

Additional qualification in neuropsychology

Job description

This role would suit an innovative clinical psychologist from Older People's or Adult Mental Health, Neuropsychology or Physical Health services who has the experience and skill to provide senior leadership and oversight of psychological therapies in our Bexley OPMH Services (including a CMHT, Memory Service and Care Home Team). There is a broad range of clinical work from complex individual and group therapy, couple and family work and consultation, to neuropsychology and rehabilitation. The post-holder also links into Acute & Crisis services, including our Mental Health Liaison team, wards and home treatment team.

You will play a crucial role in helping to shape the future of OPMH psychological therapy services, demonstrating leadership in clinical practice, service development, supervision, training, and management. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing the quality and reach of our services, ensuring that we provide the best possible evidence-based care to our service users, their families and support networks.

Main duties of the job

Psychological Therapies are an established, highly valued specialty within OPMH services. This role is well supported by a team of Psychological therapists, including clinical psychologists, CBT, systemic and art therapists, at bands 8b to 4. We provide a range of therapies, including CBT, systemic, psychodynamic, art therapy, CAT, EMDR, SCM, DBT informed interventions, and third wave CBT approaches including Mindfulness and ACT.

Psychological Therapy services are very well respected within the wider Oxleas Trust and this is reflected in our Director of Therapies being a full member of the Board of the Trust alongside the Medical Director and Director of Nursing.

Psychological Therapies also have a key role to play in taking forward the Mental Health Transformation agenda and this post will contribute to that programme of development. Older People’s services also comprise a dedicated and collaborative workforce. Overall, Oxleas is a warm and supportive place to work.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Additional qualification in therapy
• Additional qualification in neuropsychology

Experience

• Substantial experience as a qualified clinical psychologist
• Teaching/training/supervision
• Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, audit, or service evaluation projects.
• Experience of undertaking leadership roles.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity and complexity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings.
• Understanding and experience of working in multicultural contexts
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapists.
• Experience in working with People with Dementia
• Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services.

Knowledge and skills

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• A high-level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists and psychological therapists.
• Use of complex methods of specialist psychological assessment, intervention and management
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills
• Management of budgets and resources
• Knowledge and skills gained in managing qualified and unqualified psychological practitioners, including recruitment and retention, appraisal and performance review and personal development procedures, sickness absence, maternity leave/paternity leave, annual leave, and disciplinary procedures.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies, including in specific complex and difficult to treat groups.

Personal

• An ability to articulate the value added by Psychological Therapy services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services to the care group.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
• Commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.

Other

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
• Record of having published in either peer-reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

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.