Senior leadership role within Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support, contributing to national and international dissemination of evidence-based parenting interventions and ongoing research.

Portfolio of work coordinating, contributing, and leading on interventions, implementation, and dissemination

Main duties of the job

Senior leadership role with Empowering Parents Empowering Communities within the Centre for Parent and Child Support, providing guidance and supervision to clinicians within the service. Working with senior leadership group to ensure work with national, international, and local services is fulfilled according to service level agreements, licenses, and work plans with sufficient funding.

Use understanding of complex and changing circumstances within social care, national health service and voluntary sector to support work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support to remain accessible, appropriate and acceptable.

Promote the work of Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and the Centre for Parent and Child Support internally within the Trust, nationally and internationally, presenting at conferences, delivering training and through publications.

About us

About Us:

The Centre for Parent and Child Support is a busy, successful, and influential unit for the development and dissemination of Family Partnership Model, Empowering Parents Empowering Communities and Helping Families Programme. The team are multi-disciplinary, made up of peer support workers, administrators, parenting practitioners, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, clinical psychologists with shared belief in being able to improve outcomes for parents, children, and families. We work closely with parents and colleagues to co-design and test interventions.

About our locations:

Maudsley Hospital (headquarters)

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin Park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range of restaurants.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage with the aim of giving you the best of good work life balance. (This may include working early mornings, later evenings or Saturdays as part of the core working hours/working pattern for this post) .

Job description

Job responsibilities

To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of a highly specialist psychological service for the Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC)

To work closely with head of the Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure EPEC has sufficient financial, staffing, and other resources to fulfil its national, regional, and local service requirements.

To work with the Heads of Centre for Parent and Child Support to ensure that activity is safe, acceptable, and effective, gathering, and collating evidence and recommending/implementing service review and improvements as necessary.

To contribute and support day to day leadership of the Centre and its work including responsibility for allocation and review of work and job plans, oversight of clinical and operational supervision, appraisals and review for team members, students, and trainees.

To contribute and support development and day to day dissemination of programmes of the Centre for Parent and Child Support

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification in profession allied to Medicine/Doctorate in Clinical Psychology/equivalent that has been accepted by the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) for purposes of professional registration. (A/I)
• Completed training course in clinical supervision. (A/I/R)
• Registered with the HCPC or similar professional body, and evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC. (A/I)

Desirable

• Advanced training in management.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in parenting, child, and adolescent mental health, working with vulnerable parents, families, and children. (A/I)
• Experience of developing, planning, and providing large- and small-scale workforce development, training, and teaching to a variety of professional groups. (A/I)
• Experience of peer-led, service user-based service provision, coproduction, and collaborative work. (A/I)
• Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service area. (A/I)

Desirable

• Extensive experience of training of a range of professionals and service users.
• Extensive experience of health services research, evaluation, audit and dissemination through teaching, training and publication.

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory, skills and practice underpinning the programmes developed in EPEC e.g. attachment, developmental ecology, strengths-based methods, risk and resilience, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), goal-focused and relational methods. (A/I/R)
• Advanced theoretical knowledge of the aetiology of early infant/childhood/adolescent development, difficulties, parenting problems and clinical psychometrics, depending on profession. (A/I/R)
• Understanding of key principles and science of managing organisational change and implementation of EPEC in complex environments. (A/I/R)
• Advanced knowledge of clinical supervision frameworks and theories. (A/I/R)
• Advanced knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care and the adoption of EPEC and other evidence-based programmes. (A/I/R)

Desirable

• Advanced knowledge of clinical supervision frameworks and theories. (A/I/R)
• Advanced knowledge of research in child and adolescent mental health and associated social care or educational studies relevant to the work of EPEC.

Skills

Essential

• Advanced project planning and management skills. (A/I)
• To plan projects and work schedules for groups of parenting practitioners, psychologists and other professional groups. (A/I)
• Advanced skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups. (A/I/R)
• Skills to work effectively with senior managers and practitioners across agencies, respect differences and use integrated ways of working which complement the skills of other professionals. (A/I/R)
• Ability to motivate, enthuse and lead staff.

Desirable

• Assessed skills in providing professional advice to practitioners and local organisations and in clinical and non-clinical report writing for multi-agency purposes.

Abilities

Essential

• Lead complex training and implementation strategies

Desirable

• Ability to use IT/computer software and multimedia materials for communication, presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Michael Rutter Centre

DeCrespigny Park

London

SE5 8AZ

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