Employer Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Leckhampton Lodge Town Cheltenham Salary £74,290 - £85,601 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/07/2025 23:59
Service Lead for Complex Psychological Interventions
NHS AfC: Band 8c
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county .
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you ’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and w e are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality team s in all areas of the Trust .
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
Are you passionate about improving and delivering high-quality care? Are you motivated by providing psychological informed care for people experiencing severe mental health problems?
We are recruiting a new Consultant grade lead role for our Complex Psychological Intervention (CPI) service. We want a senior experienced psychological professional who is able to bring a depth and breadth of expert knowledge and skills in working with people with severe mental health problems within multidisciplinary systems and proven ability to provide compassionate, inclusive leadership.
Our three CPI teams employ a range of psychological professionals integrated into our six community multi-disciplinary Recovery teams. They deliver psychologically informed interventions, and support the development of psychologically informed environments through consultation, supervision and training.
As the service lead you will be responsible for shaping our teams to ensure consistent equitable psychological provision across the county.
You will lead on ensuring we meet our populations’ needs, addressing problems of access, and evaluating outcomes to ensure we provide the very best care we can to the people of Gloucestershire.The post holder will play a key role in developing and implementing the psychological vision for our services for severe mental health problems.
Main duties of the job
To manage the CPI countywide psychology service delivering psychologically informed services across GHC’s core specialist secondary care mental health services.
To take the lead role in the development of the new developments in relation to Psychological interventions to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework.
To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees and assistants from all professions within the service and across the psychological interventions aspects of other relevant services.
To be responsible for the effective line and professional management/clinical supervision of all psychological professionals employed in the CPI service, ensuring that all psychological practice is effective, safe and well led.
To participate in and provide specialist advice to relevant aspects of policy making, strategic planning, management and clinical governance.
To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases, providing advice and consultancy for patients and their significant others, and specialist clinical supervision to professionals.
To work in partnership with Service Users, their significant others, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, VCSE (voluntary, charity and social enterprise) organisations to co-produce the design, development and delivery of services.
Working for our organisation
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
* 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
* 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
* 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to the advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person specification
Skills
* Post-graduate doctoral level training or equivalent in applied psychology or psychological therapy
* Accredited / registered with professional body
* Knowledge of service and professional leadership/ management including common organisational arrangements, key responsibilities, professional governance requirements.
* Insight to delivering effective services in context of organisational responsibilities/constraints
Experience
* Assessed extensive experience of working as a qualified or registered Practioner Psychologist, Psychotherapist or Psychological Therapist, including significant post-qualification experience within the Specific Care Group/Service
* Evidence of a breadth of understanding to facilitate provision of a comprehensive psychological service across the client group.
When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
* Free car parking at many of our sites
* 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
* A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
* A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
* Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
* Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
* Recognition and long service awards
* Fast Track physiotherapy
* Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.
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.
Name Dr Jake Bowley Job title Lead for Working Age Adult Psychological Services Email address jake.bowley@ghc.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 421 3812
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