Overview
We are pleased to offer this new role to further enhance our services clinical leadership. The role provides an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-disciplinary leadership team leading the ongoing transformation of the service. You will work alongside the Consultant Clinical Lead, other Clinical Leads, and Team Managers to lead this change, offering an opportunity to enhance your strategic and clinical leadership skills.
With this new role, we aim not only to strengthen the delivery of our current offers, but also to expand their scope in the future. You will take a key clinical leadership role in the service alongside other Clinical Leads and be responsible for leading the implementation and delivery of psychological interventions, supported by the Consultant Psychologist Lead, who will provide professional, managerial, and clinical supervision.
The role will offer opportunities including clinical leadership, direct formulation and intervention, delivering training, service development, group and 1:1 clinical supervision and consultation to others, and service evaluation. There will be opportunities to shape the role and for continued professional development in areas relevant to service delivery and development. The service is based in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland (LLR) and is part of our broader initiative to transform work with people with relational and emotional difficulties often described diagnostically as Personality Disorder. We are seeking a Principal Psychologist to join our secondary care psychologically-led dedicated provision as a Clinical Lead.
The service has over 30 staff, including Psychologists, a Medical Psychotherapist, Peer Support Workers, and Mental Health Practitioners. We offer a range of psychological and psychologically-informed approaches within the trauma-informed care tradition, including Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and a structured clinical management approach.
We would be particularly interested in applicants with training in any of these approaches. We will support your training and continued professional development in these models to support your delivery of clinical leadership.
About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants; please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied patterns as applicable.
Responsibilities
* Lead the implementation and delivery of psychological interventions, supported by the Consultant Psychologist Lead (professional, managerial, and clinical supervision).
* Provide clinical leadership, direct formulation and intervention, and contribute to service development.
* Deliver training, supervise and consult to others (group and 1:1).
* Engage in service evaluation and contribute to shaping the role with opportunities for continued professional development.
Qualifications and Experience
* Interest in and training in approaches such as Mentalization-Based Therapy, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and trauma-informed care.
* Willingness to undertake training and continued professional development to support delivery of clinical leadership.
* Experience in a secondary care psychologically-led service is desirable but not required to be specified here.
About Us
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We actively promote equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants; please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied patterns as applicable.
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