An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical / Counselling Psychologist or an NHS Talking Therapies Psychological Therapist with equivalent training and experience to lead the Kensington and Chelsea NHS Talking Therapies Service.

The role involves leading a large, dynamic and innovative Talking Therapies Service in a diverse inner London borough. Candidates will have strong clinical and leadership qualities and experience, a commitment to delivering high quality psychological therapy services and a passion for challenging health inequalities.

The service is at the forefront of developments in Talking Therapies employing a Physical Activity Coordinator, Community Engagement Manager and Digital Front Door in addition to the usual Talking Therapies roles. The service is part of Community Living Well, working in partnership with Employment support, Peer support and Navigator services as well as Community Mental Health Hubs and local community services.

You would be joining us at a time of significant change in investment in Talking Therapies nationally that will deliver improved outcomes for service users.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

- To lead Talking Therapy services in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea (and Queens Park and Paddington area of Westminster).

- To advise and support the Borough Senior Management Team and others on the role and development of primary care mental health within the wider healthcare system.

- Lead a dynamic service engaged in clinical innovation and quality improvement to improve the experience and outcomes for service users

- To utilise a compassionate leadership approach, working within the Trust's SCARF (Safe, Compassionate, Accountable, Reflective and Fair) principles to ensure a positive experience for service users and staff.

- To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality psychological therapy service to the clients of the Kensington and Chelsea Talking Therapies Service, continually developing the service challenging health inequalities to reach local communities with lower access rates in a collaborative way.

- To take responsibility for the day to day operation of the service and delivery of national and local performance targets, including the work of both clinical and operational support staff.

- To lead on workforce planning for the service, including staff wellbeing, recruitment, retention and staff professional development activities.

About us

CNWL provides NHS servicesthroughout a person's life, in physical and mental health and everything inbetween, at GPs and hospitals to the community and in their own home.

The majority of our services are provided in the community, which means treating people in their homes or from clinics close to home. In this sense we are a very modern part of the NHS, something the new Long Term Plan wants to see more of, with better integration and coordination of care, delivered as close to home as possible

Where community care is not possible we offer a number of facilities to treat people in hospital or residential environments. We also provide healthcare in prisons in London and the surrounding areas.

Partnerships are central to what we do here - with patients and their families, with staff and with other organisations, especially commissioners and providers but also with local authorities, GPs, universities and the voluntary sector. We envisage more in the years to come.

We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference

Job description

Job responsibilities

The successful applicant will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychological therapy service to service users and stake-holders of K& C Talking Therapies, and take responsibility for the day-to-day operational and clinical management and practice of psychological therapists and other staff working in the service.

We are keen to recruit an experienced and innovative individual to lead on improvement initiatives within current pathways including long-term health conditions, perinatal and young adults, and continue to build relationships with our community and healthcare partners to maintain a high performing integrated service for our service users in K& C. The post holder will join the CNWL K& C Senior Management Team in the delivery of excellent mental health and social care across the borough.

Upon the end of the secondment we will work with you think about how you might best use your skills going forward .

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Post-graduate level training in an evidence based psychological therapy from a formally accredited course recognised by Talking Therapies
• A substantial period of supervised practice commensurate with that of a Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist.
• Training in supervision of psychological therapists

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Accreditation as a practitioner of a recognised Talking Therapies therapy, e.g.as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist by the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP)
• Training and experience in a Talking Therapies modality. EMDR, Mindfulness-based approaches or long-term health conditions interventions is highly desirable.
• Attendance at relevant management training courses and events.
• Leadership & management training

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• A significant period of assessed clinical practice working as a qualified clinical / counselling psychologist or accredited psychological therapist at a highly specialist level including post-qualification experience within an Talking Therapies service or equivalent.
• Experience that supports working in a socio-economically diverse area and anti-discriminatory practice
• Experience of significant service developments, Quality Improvement and other process of change management
• Experience in a leadership, managerial and supervisory role in a Talking Therapies service / or equivalent
• Awareness of national and local Talking Therapies performance monitoring requirements and a sound knowledge of the IAPTUS (or equivalent) electronic clinical recording system
• 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified psychologists and/or other psychological therapist e.g., HI CBT therapists.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services
• Experience of working across a range of clinical setting and knowledge of the key interface issues with other AMH services
• Experience of representing psychological therapies in local policy forums.
• Experience of designing and implementing research projects.
• Experience of managing budgets

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of psychological theory including highly developed knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• The knowledge and skills to work with service users and staff groups from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds with an understanding of the impact of social inequalities and the ability to challenge discrimination
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Awareness of national and local Talking Therapies performance monitoring requirements and a sound knowledge of the IAPTUS (or equivalent) electronic clinical recording system
• A high level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Knowledge and skills or risk assessment and ability to perform a clinical risk assessment.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS / BABCP or equivalent.

Desirable

• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific groups (e.g. Perinatal mental health, Long-term conditions)
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies
• Ability to deliver therapy in locally relevant languages other than English

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Charles Hospital

Exmoor Street

London

W10 6DZ

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