Acute Care and Community Rehabilitation Team Psychological Services Lead

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist (w. core MH qualification)

Band 8b - Full time

The North London Mental Health Partnership Haringey Division is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist (with a core mental health qualification) to lead on the strategic development of the psychology service provision within our Haringey Urgent Care Services (wards and home treatment) and our Community Rehabilitation Team.

This post provides excellent management and leadership opportunities through the coordination of the urgent care psychology team. The post also provides service development opportunities and close and collaborative working with MDT colleagues in the community rehabilitation team.

This post and the teams are well-established with exciting initiatives implemented in the last few years. The post is based at St Ann's Hospital in South Tottenham and is supported by a growing and innovative psychology workforce. One of our initiatives is to promote trauma-informed services, as well as increased access to specialist trauma therapies. A benefit of the post will be to receive training and on-going supervision in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

Main duties of the job

The post holder:

Carries responsibility for ensuring systematic provision of a high quality psychological therapies service across:

o Community Rehabilitation Team

o Blossom Court in-patient wards

o Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams

Provides clinical and professional leadership and management, with responsibility for service developments across all teams within the service:

Provides management, consultation and supervision to psychological therapists within the service, ensuring the highest standards of delivery of psychological therapies and psychologically informed clinical practice across all disciplines

Holds responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest performance of the team with responsibility for systematic governance of psychological practice within the service and implementation of the Trust clinical governance agenda, ensuring that professional standards are met and that appropriate continuing professional development is in place. To delegate these responsibilities where appropriate.

Carries a specialist caseload of clients.

Responsible for monitoring team's performance, ensuring outcome measurement, audit, and surveys of service user and carer satisfaction are conducted.

About us

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C& I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to continue the development of Trauma Informed Practice within the psychological provision in these services. The post holder will lead on this initiative with support from senior divisional staff including the Haringey adult psychology lead. You will be based at St. Anns Hospital where the inpatient wards are accommodated in Blossom Court, a recently built state of the art mental health unit with an adjacent day therapy centre.

The opening of Blossom Court created an opportunity to rethink the clinical model of care of the Urgent Care Service alongside the remodelling of the physical environment. The new clinical model, created following a series of workshops with service users and carers, aims to develop a service with a more systemic and trauma informed approach. Along with senior Urgent Care staff you will be central to the continued development of this model with Trauma Informed Practice at its core. We are proud of the progress we have made in Urgent Care and are keen to maintain and further these accomplishments. Urgent Care Psychology in Haringey benefits from strong relationships with the urgent care pathways across our partnership. The Urgent Care Psychology post provides an excellent opportunity to develop leadership and management skills in the coordination of the established team of psychological therapists in the department.

Haringey community services have recently benefitted from the transformation agenda of the NHS Long Term Plan for mental health. This has meant more substantive collaboration and integration between our services and local community organisations with increased funding for posts across both sectors. Trauma Informed Practice is again core to these developments, and you will work with senior staff in the Community Rehabilitation Team to develop and support trauma informed care programmes within the team provision.

This is a great opportunity for the right individual to develop clinical, strategic and managerial leadership skills, and in particular to shape the way in which psychological and psychotherapeutic approaches can be applied within the Urgent Care and Community Rehabilitation settings to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of what is offered.

We would also welcome applicants with the enthusiasm and training needed but whose level of experience may not quite be at the level required for this leadership post. For the right candidate we would consider a developmental appointment in which they work into the full banding over a set period of time and with appropriate support and training from our senior psychology and psychotherapy staff. We are also happy to discuss potential job shares and flexible working arrangements.

We strongly encourage potential candidates to contact us for informal discussion and further information by calling or emailing Daniel Skehan, Consultant Clinical Psychologist on 020 87026535 or daniel.skehan@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology(or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. OR FOR SYSTEMIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS Doctoral or Masters level qualification in Systemic Psychotherapy. Registered with UKCP and AFT as a Systemic and Family Psychotherapist. Accredited Systemic and Family Therapy Supervisor with AFT. Qualification at degree level and registration with HCPC or NMC or equivalent in a core mental health profession eg social worker, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse, occupational therapist prior to training/qualification as a Systemic Psychotherapist
• Further training in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses, together with an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice with an experienced clinical supervisor, at an equivalent level to a postgraduate diploma. Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
• Registration with the HCPC as a practitioner psychologist

Desirable

• Post graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychotherapy practice

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working as a qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Systemic and Family Psychotherapist
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in first degree, core mental health profession - for Systemic Psychotherapists
• Extensive experience of providing psychological therapies to clients with a wide range of mental health problems
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a clinician and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

Desirable

• Experience of working in an NHS Community Rehabilitation Team
• Experience of working in an NHS Acute Care Service
• Knowledge of and experience in implementing a trauma informed care approach
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of delivering treatment in a group format.
• Experience of leadership responsibilities particularly in a multi-disciplinary team context.

Skills

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological and systemic assessment, intervention and management of sustained and intense concentration.
• 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 in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists/systemic psychotherapists
• Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff
• Post graduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis
• Well developed skills in clinical and professional supervision.

Desirable

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• Evidence of further development of management knowledge and skills

Personal

Essential

• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Contribute to improving the quality of life for service users

Desirable

• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.

Other

Essential

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours

Desirable

• Personal experience of mental health problems or caring for a family member.
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Hosptial

St Ann's Road

Tottenham, London

N15 3TH

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