Consultant Clinical Psychologist

As Head of Psychological Services for Older Adult's Mental Health with Frailty, you will join a Trust that:

• Puts people first, valuing lived experience and professional expertise
• Actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion across our diverse communities
• Encourages senior leaders to drive change through collective leadership and continuous improvement
• Recognises the central role of psychology in delivering compassionate care across the Frailty pathway

Main duties of the job

Leadership, Governance and Management

• Provide senior leadership and governance for psychology across Older Adult's Mental Health with Frailty services in Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, including staff in CIDS, SOAMHS, CHILS, MCI and inpatient wards.
• Lead workforce planning, service development and transformation across older adult mental health and frailty services.
• Work in close partnership with the Older Adults' Care Quality Network, Clinical Leads and Service Managers to support integrated, person centred care.

Professional Leadership and Accountability

• Be professionally accountable to the Director of Psychological Professions, ensuring effective monitoring of professional standards across older adult services.
• Ensure systematic, high quality supervision, leadership development and CPD for psychological professions staff.
• Provide expert professional advice on psychological practice, governance, risk and quality.

Quality, Outcomes and Service Improvement

• Ensure systematic measurement of clinical outcomes for service users across older adult and frailty services.
• Oversee outcomes data to inform improvement and commissioning.
• Ensure metrics are routinely analysed and reported at borough and Trust governance forums.

Strategic Contribution

• Contribute to Trust wide psychological strategy and transformation.
• Represent psychology in borough, Trust and NW London ICs forums.
• Champion equality, diversity, inclusion and trauma informed approaches across services.

Job responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification Training & Qualifications

• Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as recognised by the HCPC.
• Professional registration with the HCPC as a full member and evidence of CPD as required by the HCPC.
• Additional training beyond entry level qualification in more than one specialised area of psychological practice relevant to local services, through formal post qualification training such as CBT, DBT, MBT, SFT.
• Additional post qualification training and experience, or further qualifications, in one or more specialised areas of psychological practice in the Older Adults' Care Quality Network.
• Accredited practitioner in a specific psychological therapy.
• Supervision training.
• Leadership/management training.

Experience

• Experience of working within older adults' services or their equivalent.
• Substantial experience of specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of patients in a range of settings.
• Experience of policy and multi professional service development.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of delivering teaching, training and reflective practice groups to staff teams.
• Experience in the management of staff, including appraisal, performance management and budget holding, commensurate with a leadership role.
• Experience of applying psychology and psychological therapies in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of line management.
• Experience of multi agency co operation, liaison and risk management.
• Experience of significant service development, design and implementation.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of older adults' mental health needs and frailty in relation to current legislation, government policy and other national initiatives, as well as relevant psychological theory and research.
• Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills and expertise in providing psychological consultation and advice to other professional and non professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
• Post doctoral research, audit or service evaluation.

Others

• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£85,641 to £97,746 a year per annum pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS