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Consultant Psychologist

Employer
South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Location
London
Salary
£72,761 to £82,971 a year pa inclusive of HCA
Closing date
22 Aug 2022

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Grade
Band 8C
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Purpose:
  • To lead the strategy, planning and management of the delivery of model-informed psychological approaches in the context of a specialist substance use disorders treatment service.
  • To work closely as part of a triumvirate Senior Management Team (working with a Consultant Psychiatrist and Borough Lead Manager).
  • To offer leadership more broadly across the treatment service including contributing to clinical governance, service developments and relationships with key partners and Commissioners
  • To be responsible to the Professional Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy in Addictions for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of psychological therapies and good practice for substance use psychosocial interventions (individual and groups) across the service, working with the wider service managers.
  • To ensure that psychological therapies staff within the service receive clinical supervision.
  • To contribute to enabling other staff disciplines and the service as a whole to flourish by working to create a psychologically-informed environment.
  • To ensure the conduct of research, service evaluation and audits relevant to the service and the research agenda
  • To contribute to wider service performance management and quality reporting to Commissioners
  • To share responsibility for good clinical governance, quality improvement and appropriateness of the work of practitioners in the service.
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Main duties of the job

Clinical and Client Care
  • Plan, organise and ensure the delivery of psychological/substance use services in Consortium.
  • Provide specialist psychological therapy assessments, formulations and interventions focused on supporting addictions recovery
  • Assess and monitor risk, including appropriate risk management plans

Responsibilities for service clinical functioning
  • Ensure effective working of the team and a psychologically informed framework for the service.
  • Utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice
  • Clinical oversight and over-arching responsibility for Consortium groups and psychosocial interventions

Management/ Supervision
  • Deputise for the HOP for Addictions.
  • Provide leadership to psychological practitioners and other professionals in service.
  • Ensure clinical and professional supervision of psychological practitioners
  • Recruitment
  • Appraisal

Teaching/ Training
  • Organise/ provide specialist clinical placements for trainees/ applied psychological practitioners as directed by the SLP
  • Contribute to development of knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychological therapy

Record-keeping and Information Governance
  • Ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines

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About us

Context

The Richmond and Wandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Service has been run by SLaM, as lead provider in partnership with non-statutory organisations: We Are With You, St Mungo's and Community Drug & Alcohol Recovery Services (CDARS) since April 2020 as part of the Richmond & Wandsworth Consortium. The contract is jointly commissioned across both London boroughs and is currently projected to run for 10 years in total.

RWCDAS provides community substance use disorders (SUD) treatment for the residents of Richmond and Wandsworth. It provides a full range (both clinical and recovery-oriented) personalised and evidence-based treatments for the spectrum of SUDs including opiate substitution, alcohol detoxification and a community recovery programme (abstinent and non-abstinent). It offers comprehensive assessment, harm reduction, physical health and mental health interventions (in conjunction with local partners) as well as model-informed psychological interventions directed at substance misuse e.g. MI and relapse prevention.

The post holder will join the Richmond & Wandsworth Consortium Senior Management Team, so key working relationships will be with the consultant and clinical lead Dr Seth Bhunnoo, and the Bi-borough Management Lead (Jane Eastaway), as well as the wider management team. The services share a commissioner and the collaborative relationship with that team is an important area.

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Job description Job responsibilities

Personal Specification:

(I). Candidates should not be hired unless they have ALL essential requirements. Areas that can be developed through L&D can be deemed desirable.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

Qualifications (Desirable)

Experience [Essential requirements]

Experience [Desirable requirements]

Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Addictions and / or Complex Care. (A/I)

Experience of undertaking leadership roles (A/I)

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature associated with mental health and co-occurring substance misuse. (A/I)

Experience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training. (A/I)

Experience of carrying out post-qualification research, audit or service evaluation projects and fulfilling the needs of service commissioners. (A/I)

Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area. (A/I)

Experience of participation in recruitment (A/I)

Experience of providing teaching and training to psychological practitioners and other professional groups. (A/I)

Post-qualification experience of working with and addressing issues of diversity and inclusivity within local communities, including experience of working within a multicultural framework. (A/I)

Experience of working in a specialist addictions service or in a role with a specific focus on working with clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues. (A/I)

Knowledge [Essential]

Knowledge [Desirable)

Knowledge of theory and practice of management and leadership. (A/I/R)

Advanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatments for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. (A/I/R)

Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological practice/processes in addictions and their therapeutic application in the psychiatric patient population.

Knowledge of assessment and clinical psychometrics. (A/I/R)

Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health issues, child and adult protection, and equalities. (A/I/R)

Knowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of mental health care including addictions. (A/I/R)

To deliver model-informed psychological therapies across cultural and other diversities. (A/I/R)

To select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources according to discipline for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. (A/I/R)

Knowledge of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches/models in assessment and treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. (A/I/R)

Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care and addictions services (A/I/R)



Knowledge of commissioning systems in addictions services and the different performance and clinical demands upon these services. (A/I)

Knowledge of commissioning systems across mental health services and the different performance and clinical demands upon these services. (A/I)

Skills [Essential]

Skills [Desirable]

Abilities [Essential]

Abilities [Desirable]

Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles (A/I/R)

Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate. (A/I/R)

Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings (A/I/R)





Person Specification Qualifications Essential
  • oEntry-level qualification in applied psychological therapies in mental health and addiction and demonstrable practice in this field (Professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level with post-qualification supervised practice and additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration
  • oAdditional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice relevant to addictions through formal post-qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in the specialist area of addictions, assessed by a registered body and/or an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a Postgraduate Diploma or higher.
  • oCompleted training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervise qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline.
  • oRegistered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC
  • oEvidence of continuing professional development as required by the HCPC.
Desirable
  • Training in Motivational Interviewing and CBT for Addictions
  • Specialist trainings in other relevant psychotherapies e.g. psychodynamic, systems, cognitive analytic, mentalization-based, dialectical-behavioural therapies, trauma-informed, schema therapies
Experience Essential
  • oEvidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in Addictions and / or Complex Care
  • oExperience of undertaking leadership roles
  • oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature associated with mental health and co-occurring substance misuse
  • oExperience of supervising assistants and trainees having completed the relevant training
  • oExperience of carrying out post-qualification research, audit or service evaluation projects and fulfilling the needs of service commissioners
  • oExperience of proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area
  • oExperience of participation in recruitment
  • oExperience of providing teaching and training to psychological practitioners and other professional groups.
  • oPost-qualification experience of working with and addressing issues of diversity and inclusivity within local communities, including experience of working within a multicultural framework
Desirable
  • Experience of working in a specialist addictions service or in a role with a specific focus on working with clients with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues
Knowledge Essential
  • oKnowledge of theory and practice of management and leadership.
  • oAdvanced theoretical knowledge of psychopathology and the evidence base for the relevant treatments for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems
  • oAdvanced knowledge of the theory of psychological practice/processes in addictions and their therapeutic application in the psychiatric patient population
  • oKnowledge of assessment and clinical psychometrics.
  • oKnowledge of factors affecting acceptability and accessibility of menta

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