Higher Assistant Clinical Psychologist, Culture of Care Programme

JCasp Technologies - Website Apps & AI/ML Development Company; Oldham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated professional to lead the Culture of Care programme. This role involves managing quality improvement initiatives, providing clinical support, and fostering relationships across teams to enhance service delivery. You will play a key role in promoting trauma-informed and anti-racist care, ensuring that service users receive the best possible support. Join a passionate team committed to making a difference in the lives of individuals with mental health needs, and enjoy a supportive work environment with opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Flexible working opportunities

Access to Continued Professional Development

Health and Wellbeing activities

Staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Qualifications

• Experience in inpatient settings and QI projects is essential.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills are crucial.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of the Culture of Care programme.
• Provide clinical and project management support to the team.
• Promote a therapeutic environment and facilitate service user involvement.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Project Management

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Research Skills

Education

Degree in Psychology or related field

Tools

Statistical Software

IT Tools for Data Analysis

Job description

A Vacancy at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be responsible for leading on the planning, set-up and execution of the Culture of Care programme and other related QI projects as required. This is a project funded by NHS England and delivered by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH). The key priorities for this QI are anti-racism, autism-informed and trauma-informed care. The postholder will be supported by and receive supervision from a qualified Consultant Clinical Psychologist.

Using research, service evaluation, audit and QI skills, combined with clinical skills from having worked in an inpatient setting, this postholder will provide comprehensive clinical and project management support to the Lead for the Culture of Care programme and other related QI projects as required. This will include the management and analysis of data and assisting in organising new QI initiatives.

Having experience of working in a busy inpatient setting would help the post holder to deliver upon the required tasks. Supporting fellow inpatient colleagues to both think about and facilitate the changes required and provide excellent service-user care. Being a clinician will bring understanding and compassion to the pressures busy colleagues face and help ground improvement ideas in reality to ensure success and sustainability.

This postholder will spend a significant proportion of their time in clinical areas across the wards in Stockport and Oldham.

Communication and Relationships

1. Establish and maintain good working relationships with the project teams and colleagues across the 4 wards taking part in the Culture of Care programme as well as a wide range of corporate teams with the ability to negotiate and influence to ensure engagement with the Culture of Care programme.
2. Spend dedicated time with each of the 4 wards projects teams to ensure the small scale change ideas relate to the 12 commitments of the culture of care programme are subsequently implemented on each of the wards using a PDSA cycle.
3. To communicate complex information relating to the Culture of Care programme. This will include developing and delivering presentations for groups alongside the Clinical Lead.
4. Communicate with the wider Trust about the Culture of Care programme. For example, by contributing to reports, and managing promotional material such as posters and presentations.
5. To promote lived experience and carer involvement in the work of the Culture of Care programme.

To promote a therapeutic ward environment which provides meaningful occupation for service users and direct other staff in assisting with this aim as necessary.

To ensure QI initiatives are trauma-informed, gender-informed, autism-informed and anti-racist. This will mean seeking guidance and support and working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders, including Psychology and Psychiatry colleagues.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance.
3. Access to Continued Professional Development.
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities.
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service.
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel.

Managerial Responsibilities and Service Development

1. To provide support and clinical guidance to the project teams.
2. To lead on Trust QI initiatives as directed by the Clinical Lead and Inpatient Transformation SRO.
3. To facilitate learning environments for the ward project teams and other learners in conjunction with the Clinical Lead to ensure effective roll out of the Culture of Care programme on the 4 wards taking part.

Clinical

1. Under the clinical supervision of a qualified Clinical Psychologist, and appropriate to level of knowledge, experience and training.
2. To assist in the psychological assessment of adults with complex mental health needs, using a range of assessment methodologies, including psychometric and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect structured observations, semi-structured interviews, screening tools and routine outcome measures.
3. To assist in the development of psychological formulation of adults with complex mental health needs to inform individual and/or team intervention.
4. To deliver psychological interventions, through 1:1 and/or group sessions, to adults with complex mental health needs. To assist with group preparation, administrative tasks and evaluations when group interventions are delivered.
5. To assist members of the multi-disciplinary team in implementing psychologically informed interventions.
6. To be involved in writing co-produced care plans with members of the multi-disciplinary teams, service users and carers and to write clinical reports, tailored to a range of audiences, including service users and their carers.
7. To assist the Clinical Psychologists in the delivery of psychological interventions at a systemic level, including psychological consultancy and training.
8. To work collaboratively with a range of staff from the multi-disciplinary team and other service providers to assess needs and formulate action plans along directorate care pathways.
9. To attend and contribute as appropriate to multi-disciplinary meetings through verbal and written methods of communication including handover, clinical team meetings and clinical discussion groups.
10. To assist with the encouragement of service user involvement and participation.

Research, Service Evaluation, Audit and QI

1. To take lead using existing and/or new processes for evaluating clinical discussion groups and to produce posters, and possibly reports, to highlight service user and staff feedback. These will be shared with staff within the care hub and senior managers.
2. To assist in the design and implementation of audit and research projects.
3. To undertake searches of evidence-based literature and research to assist in applying evidence-based practice to the service user group.
4. To undertake data collection, data analysis and the production of reports and summaries using IT and statistical programmes.

This advert closes on Monday 21 Apr 2025.