Brent Talking Therapies is located in the diverse London borough of Brent. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner with strong leadership skills to join our senior leadership team as Deputy Clinical Lead alongside our existing Deputy Clinical Lead. This post is open to any experienced Talking Therapies (IAPT) clinician including Clinical or Counselling Psychologists who have been in a senior role and are formally qualified and fully accredited via established Talking Therapies (IAPT) training and professional bodies.

The role involves oversight of the Step 2 CBT team including qualified and trainee PWPs. You will be responsible for the day to day operation of the service across our team bases, including supervision and line management of staff, delivery of KPIs and provision of training for staff. The role will also involve leading on specific areas for the service including development of links with external organisations as well as internal development projects. Experience of working with long-term conditions is desirable.

You will also have experience of developing a substantial service provision including managing, service development and evaluation and providing expertise through teaching and supervising. You will have a track record of excellent collaborative working, staff development and good relationships with colleagues across mental health services, as well as, experience of working within the wider borough mental health developments.

Main duties of the job

You will work closely with the clinical lead and the senior leadership team to manage operational issues within the team, and will have clinical supervision responsibilities for qualified therapists and other clinical staff as required, as well as shared responsibility for designated management duties such as recruitment, line management and performance management.

You will need a good understanding of the needs of people with mental health difficulties and experience of working with these client groups. You will carry a clinical caseload and also receive support for further training and development in specialist areas of interest.

You will have the opportunity to become involved with quality improvement projects and other initiatives that enhance the service user experience and will be responsible for providing reports and data around performance as appropriate.

You will also have experience of working in a senior role, providing management and supervision to staff within Talking Therapies, and also experience of supporting service development and expansion in areas such as community partnerships, working with other healthcare providers, perinatal, and long-term health conditions amongst others.

You will be familiar with Talking Therapies requirements and have experience of using data to manage delivery of all key targets.

About us

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage & 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.

The catchment area of the post is the London borough of Brent. The main hub for the service is based at Fairfields House in Kingsbury and there is a satellite hub at Bell House in Willesden Green.You will be required to work across both hubs & in other parts of the borough, e.g. GP surgeries & community settings.

We operate an agile working policy where staff combine remote working and being on-site to deliver face-to-face appointments and other service commitments that require a hub-based presence. The post-holder will work full-time hours & may be required to work at any times between 8am & 8pm on weekdays including an evening clinic as required by the service.

• Brent Talking Therapies Service has close links with the CNWL Talking Therapies teams and there are opportunities for further development.
• We are able to offer training in other models of care such as BCT and MBCT.
• Our clinicians also have opportunities to develop in their area of interest, e.g. LTC, perinatal, young adults, older adults, outreach/community work, and LGBTQ+
• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, with an increase to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS discount
• Opportunities for career progression

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical:1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Brent Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.6. To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders.7. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of the care.11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate

Person Specification

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.
• or Post-graduate level training in an evidence based psychological therapy from a formally accredited course recognised by IAPT
• Accredited as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist by the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP) or equivalent
• Formal training in supervision.

Desirable

• Accredited supervisor in one evidence based therapeutic modality

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a leadership role in a psychological therapy service, liaising and consulting with GPs and community providers.
• Extensive experience of working in a Talking Therapies (IAPT) service with a diverse population
• Experience in developing therapeutic services to respond to user needs.
• Experience of service development and of embedding new organisational models, services and pathways.
• Experience of 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 managing and supervising workforce from different backgrounds.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
• Experience in the continuous improvement of high intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers.
• Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
• 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 primary and secondary care.

Desirable

• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings and life span, which includes secondary care mental health services.
• Experience of the application of psychological interventions in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Communication & Relationship skills
• Clinical, Analytical & Judgement skills
• Knowledge of guidelines and systems
• Planning and organisational skills
• Research & Guidance
• Cultural awareness

Desirable

• Specific experience in working with health-related psychological issues, e.g. long-standing and chronic conditions.
• 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).
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CNWL Talking Therapies Service Brent

Fairfields House, Fairfields Cres

London

NW9 0PS

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