Divisional Director of Psychology and Psychological Therapies

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust is seeking a Divisional Director of Psychology and Psychological Therapies to provide clinical and strategic leadership to psychological professionals. The ideal candidate will have a background in clinical psychology, strong leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across services. This role offers a hybrid working model and generous benefits including 27 days leave plus bank holidays.

Benefits

27 days leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension

Flexible working opportunities

Comprehensive maternity and paternity support

Health and wellbeing opportunities

Qualifications

• Effective work at highly specialist level.
• Experience managing professional working relationships.
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary contexts.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and strategic leadership.
• Lead recruitment of psychological staff.
• Deliver clinical CAMHS interventions.

Skills

Effective communication

Emotional robustness

Teamwork

Education

BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above

Doctoral level qualification in psychology

Job description

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Divisional Director of Psychology and Psychological Therapies.

We are looking for an enthusiastic consultant clinical psychologist or psychological therapist with excellent leadership experience to join our team in a lead role for psychological professions/interventions across Herefordshire and Worcestershire Children, Young People and Families and Specialist Primary Care Directorate.

The successful applicant will provide professional leadership to psychological professionals, develop and deliver psychological interventions, and support trauma-informed care and staff wellbeing. You will have the ability to work strategically with a specific understanding of national drivers for CAMHS and children's services.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical and strategic leadership, focusing on the delivery of psychological interventions and psychologically informed care to children, young people, and their families. You will be part of an established senior directorate team and actively involved in strategic meetings and discussions as we grow and develop our services.

Lead on training, audit, and evaluation, as well as developments in clinical practice. Embracing the principles of being a CAMHS CYP-IAPT service, you will have the ability to lead workforce developments in psychological therapies and proactively engage children and young people and their parents/carers in co-production and participation.

About us

We are working together to deliver outstanding care across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites. We will support you to thrive, offer flexible working options, help you fulfill your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Job responsibilities

This post will cover services across Herefordshire and Worcestershire with a work base in either Hereford or Worcester. We are offering a hybrid model combining virtual and in-person working.

Professionally, you will lead a committed, thriving community of colleagues, providing leadership, supervision, consultation, and advice. You will lead on the recruitment of psychological staff and provide expert guidance to services within the wider Directorate.

Clinically, you will offer highly expert clinical input within the CAMHS service, supporting good multi-disciplinary working and providing clinical CAMHS interventions as part of your job plan.

Person Specification

Experience

• Effective work at highly specialist level, including effective work in a multidisciplinary context and having successfully held responsibility for systematic delivery of service
• Excellent time and workload management
• Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Effective team play as demonstrated by outcomes of work and maintenance of professional working relationships

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
• Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others and the demands of leadership
• Skills in the area of professional pre and post graduate training with experience of providing appropriate placements and supervision of clinical and/or counselling psychologists

Qualifications

• BSc/BA Honours degree at 2:1 or above
• Clinical/Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), and/or another Doctoral level qualification in an applied core psychological profession
• Eligible for registration as a Chartered Psychologist (Clinical or Counselling) by the BPS or equivalent registration as a psychological therapist with equivalent professional body