North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
About
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands.
We are delighted to be have been awarded Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission. One of our key objectives is “to attract and inspire the best people to work here”. We’re proud to be only one of two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England rated Outstanding by the CQC, and we are not stopping there. Our aim is to be Outstanding in ALL we do and HOW we do it. And that’s OUR aim for YOU.
We strive to be recognised as a centre of excellence in both integrated and specialist care, bringing innovative solutions to the services we deliver and the strategies we develop, embedding a culture of continuous learning across our organisation, and supporting and inspiring others. This is reflected in our vision, quality priorities and values.
Our SPAR Quality Priorities are to deliver services that are Safe, Personalised, Accessible and Recovery-focused. Our Values make clear how we want to go about our business - these are to be Proud to CARE - being Compassionate, Approachable, Responsible and Excellent.
We have four clinical directorates to ensure the effective running of our services. Each directorate is led by a Clinical Director who provides clinical leadership and an Associate Director responsible for its management. Our four directorates are:
1. Stoke Community
2. North Staffs Community
3. Acute and Urgent
4. Specialist
We are moving to more integrated services across North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, supporting a new alliance of health and care providers including mental health, primary care, community services, acute services, social care and voluntary sector.
Key details
Location
Site: Darwin Centre
Town: Stoke-on-Trent
Postcode: ST4 7LF
Major / Minor Region: Staffordshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
Main area: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Job overview
The Darwin Centre Adolescent Tier 4 Inpatient Service:
8C Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Part Time - 30 hours per week
This position is offering the opportunity for Agile Working and working from home options for the right candidate.
Would you like to work creatively to meet the diverse needs of Children and Young People as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team? Are you motivated by innovation and supportive of services that place Children and Young People at the centre of care? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to work within the Darwin Centre.
The post-holder will be a Highly Motivated member of the Darwin Centre senior leadership team, providing clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals developing and embedding psychological and trauma-informed approaches within the service. The role will involve direct clinical work with patients, clinical consultation, leadership and oversight of the psychology team within the Darwin Centre and the Intensive Support Hub, teaching and training. An experienced and competent supervisor is required to supervise clinical colleagues and trainee psychologists. Leadership experience is essential, including strategic and workforce planning for the psychology team and contributing to the regional clinical advisory group. Experience in DBT, working with individuals with high levels of risk and vulnerability and those with Autism is essential.
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Responsible for team delivery of highly specialist psychological care to adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health conditions which may include challenging behaviours and possible risk of harm to self or others at the Darwin Centre.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
To provide clinical supervision and training to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as a major part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
To lead continual service improvement within own area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership to psychologists and psychological professionals working at the Darwin Centre and Intensive Support Hub (ISH) to ensure the provision of a high quality psychological services to adolescent inpatients with complex mental health conditions.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological and therapeutic practice at the Darwin Centre.
To provide professional appraisal and the identification of CPD needs for psychological professions within the Darwin Centre.
To ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of psychologists and therapists working at the Darwin Centre and ISH.
To take the lead for workforce planning in and related recruitment and staff professional development activities within but not limited to the Darwin Centre.
To contribute to expansion of the workforce through the development of new roles within the psychological professions at the Darwin Centre and ISH.
Responsible for the highly specialist psychological assessment and care-planning of adolescent inpatients with highly complex mental health conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. We offer a variety of flexible working opportunities for both full and part time staff. Job Share applicants will be fully considered and applications are particularly welcomed from current and previous service users.
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PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS
* In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
•Priority will be given to NHS staff across the region who are at risk of redundancy, where the vacancy is at the same band or one below their current band and candidates meet the essential criteria for this post.
•All employees new to the Trust will be subject to a 6 month probationary period.
•All clinical staff bands 2-4 that are new to the Trust will be required to complete a Care Certificate.
Canvassing of members of the Trust or of any Committee of the Trust directly or indirectly for any appointment under the Trust shall disqualify the candidate for such appointment. The Trust does not pay travel expenses for candidates attending interviews.
ALL POSTS INVOLVING ACCESS TO PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE SUBJECT TO A DISCLOSURE & BARRING SERVICE DISCLOSURE.
Please provide full contact details for all referees, especially their email addresses where possible. Failure to do may result in significant delays in your application. There may also be a requirement to provide additional referee details.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including both child and adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Has HCPC Professional Registration
Documents
* JD (, 568.5)PDFKB
* NHS Pension (, 97.5)PDFKB
* Why work at NSCHT (, 689.6)PDFKB
* Employee Benefits (, 1.3)PDFMB
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Gillian Cooke
Job title: Clinical Director
Email address: [email protected]
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