ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to peoples lives by improving 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 overview
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
We are looking for an experienced and committed Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist for the role of Head of Psychology for the medium secure service at the John Howard Centre.
The role will include management of staff from psychological therapies services, art therapy, family therapy and drug and alcohol services. The successful applicant will work with other senior colleagues to help shape and support the implementation of the strategic development of psychological therapies services at the John Howard Centre.
You will represent psychological therapies at senior leadership meetings in the Forensic Directorate and across the Trust, with opportunity to lead on specific areas of work identified by the Directorate Management Team.
Main duties of the job
1,Offer clinical leadership and line management to Psychologists and other Psychological Professionals to ensure a high standard of psychological and therapeutic input to service users and carers in the medium secure service.
2. Work with other Consultant Psychologists, Heads of Departments and senior leaders in the Forensic Directorate and across ELFT to embed psychological thinking and practice across the work of the organisation, including working with staff from other disciplines, carer and peer support workers and external partners and stakeholders.
3. To act as principal advocate for and representative of Psychological professions on service and Trust wide operational/working groups, to undertake tasks arising from the groups’ work, and to be responsible for providing a specialist psychological perspective on all aspects of service development to members of the team or group
4. Manage budgets and other resources to provide an equitable Psychological Therapies service, which takes into account the impact of structural inequalities on service users’ experience of health and justice services.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to peoples 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
* Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent qualification as accredited by the BPS giving eligibility for chartered status
* Post qualification training in a relevant area of psychological practice or therapy modality
* Evidence of continuing professional development in accordance with BPS recommendations
* Formal training in leadership and healthcare management
* Training in Quality Improvement methodology
Experience
* Substantial post qualification experience in adult mental health, including experience at a senior level in forensic, adult mental health, or psychiatric rehabilitation services
* Substantial post qualification experience of providing specialist psychological assessments and treatment interventions to service users with complex problems, including psychosis, personality disorder, substance misuse and offending behaviour
* Experience in a range of care settings including medium secure, outpatient and/or community
* Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychological therapies staff, including psychologists
* Experience of recruitment and staff appraisal
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment both within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan and for service users managed by psychologically based care plans
* Experience of representing psychology in groups and teams both within the service and outside it
* Experience of heading/leading a service or a section of a service
* Experience of supporting teams through the delivery of reflective practice and other initiatives aimed at supporting staff.
* Experience of co-production of training and services with carers and service users
Knowledge and Skills
* Additional relevant clinical and/or managerial knowledge and skills acquired through formal training, long or short courses, formal supervision (individual and/or group), structured self-study, or experience – or a combination of these, demonstrated by certification, documented supervision logs, management appraisal documentation and/or assessment at interview
* Skills in planning and delivering services in own specialist area including long term planning
* Ability to work in a team and provide clinical leadership. Excellent interpersonal, communication and time management skills
* Staff management and appraisal skills
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management including the use of theoretical models to analyse information and develop formulations on which to base choice of treatment.
* Knowledge of the evidence based literature for effective interventions for a forensic mental health service user group.
* Knowledge of the political, cultural and legal context in which forensic psychology services are provided
* Highly developed skills in risk assessment
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate Outstanding in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
What Next?
If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!
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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.
Name Sunita Arjune Job title Deputy Service Director- Forensic Services Email address s.arjune@nhs.net Telephone number 07342715620
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