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Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Employer
Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Milton Keynes
Salary
£67,064 to £77,274 a year per annum pro rata
Closing date
26 Feb 2023

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Profession
Psychologist, Substance misuse nurse
Grade
Band 8C
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to have been awarded the contract for the East of England Gambling Service in partnership with Inclusion (Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust).

We are seeking a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to join our dynamic new team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a unique branch of mental health at a time of unprecedented expansion and growth. The post holder will have the chance to make a significant difference to residents in the East of England and to be part of the development of the first NHS gambling service in this region.

The successful candidate will be an energetic and robust individual with sophisticated and sensitive clinical skills, and a proven track record of delivering high quality services in either the NHS, social care or the private sector.

Various working locations and remote working across the East of England.

Main duties of the job

Consultant Psychologist for East of England Gambling Service, to provide strategic clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in psychological interventions. To be professionally responsible for the delivery of the psychological interventions. To be accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist psychological care of clients with gambling problems, and severe and enduring mental health. To be part of the trust wide development of gambling services and represent the psychology profession on strategic groups as appropriate. To undertake co-ordination and management of research and development projects for the psychological therapies in gambling service.

About us

The working environment will be a specialist NHS gambling Service staffed by a multi-disciplinary team working with outpatients. Although working as part of an MDT team, the post holder will be required to deliver specialist evidence-based psychological treatments that address the client's gambling problems and co-morbid health conditions.

The post-holder will have a working base at Milton Keynes but the role is likely to be largely remote working. There will be an expectation of delivering services in other locations across the East of England region to be agreed once demand is clear.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. 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. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff. We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

Job description Job responsibilities

Management
  • Together with sector manager, be responsible for the management of psychology staff, including disciplinary and grievance matters, career development, appraisal and recruitment.
  • To identify service priorities and advise on the level of psychological provision required to meet needs.
  • To contribute to long-term planning for Psychological services and formulate operational plans for service delivery. Monitor implementation of psychosocial interventions and take action as necessary to ensure targets are met

Leadership
  • Providing clinical leadership for the East of England Gambling Service including clinical governance leadership for the service.
  • To lead as the senior clinician in income generation, and secure funding for development and implementation of a high quality, responsive and accessible service for clients, their carers and families.
  • Work with senior colleagues from the National Problem Gambling Clinic on long term strategic planning and implementing service development for Gambling within Addictions and CNWL. Responsible to the Head of Clinical Psychology

Clinical
  • To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessment of clients referred to the East of England Gambling Service and 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.
  • To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and\or management of a clients difficulties based upon an evidence-based and appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy and effectiveness, across the full range of care settings.
  • To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological and non-psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations, drawing upon different theoretical models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
  • To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account different theoretical models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  • To exercise full responsibility and autonomy for the treatment of and discharge of clients whose problems are managed as a psychologically based standard care plan, ensuring appropriate assessment, formulation and interventions, communicating with the referral agent and others involved with the care on a regular basis.
  • To develop, maintain and monitor appropriate systems for the clinical and professional supervision of qualified and unqualified psychologists and family therapists in Addictions.
  • To provide clinical and professional supervision to qualified and assistant psychologists working in the sector.
  • To provide specialist clinical placements for postgraduate trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that they acquire the necessary clinical and research skills to doctoral level where appropriate, and competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological practice, and contributing to the assessment and evaluation of these competencies.
  • To provide specialist advice, consultation, training (where agreed locally) and clinical supervision to other members of teams for their provision of psychologically based interventions.
  • To participate fully as a member of clinical teams
  • To ensure that all members of clinical teams have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological knowledge, research findings and theory.
  • To undertake risk assessment and risk management for all individual clients and to provide both general and specialist advice for psychologists and other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management
  • To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a care package appropriate for the clients needs, co-ordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging clients care reviews as required and communicating effectively with the client, his\her family and all others involved in care; and to monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

Research
  • To initiate, support and implement research project management, including academic and clinical research, complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service, and outside the health service.
  • To maintain academic links with postgraduate clinical psychology training courses and this includes lecturing, acting as an internal examiner for postgraduate students, collaborating on research and interview panels for courses.
  • To act as a field supervisor for the doctorate in clinical psychology and other post graduate psychology research projects, providing expert research knowledge in a clinical area.
  • To plan, initiate and implement proposals for national and local research funding.
  • To be responsible as clinical governance lead for the audit programme in the East of England Gambling Service
  • To participate in audit and service evaluation both uni- and multi-disciplinary, ensuring action plans are implemented and audit cycles completed to improve service provision.

Education And Experience
  • Professional knowledge acquired through degree, post graduate doctoral degree, and additional specialist training courses.
  • Updating of specialist knowledge through continuing professional development.
  • Experience of providing clinical leadership to a psychology team.
  • Experience of and knowledge about a wide range of health care delivery systems in order to plan service developments and contribute to strategic planning groups and implement NSF Standards.
  • Extensive experience of working in committees with a role in leadership of planning inter-agency services, including development of long term policies and allocation of new financial resources.

Training
  • To develop, maintain and monitor appropriate systems for the clinical and professional supervision of qualified and unqualified psychologists in the clinical psychology addictions speciality.
  • To provide clinical and professional supervision to qualified and assistant psychologists working in the clinical psychology addictions speciality
  • To provide specialist clinical placements for post graduate trainee clinical psychologists.
  • To provide training to qualified staff working in Clinical Psychology.
  • To contribute to post graduate training courses in Clinical Psychology.
  • To provide specialist pre and post-qualification teaching and training to psychologists and staff of other disciplines.

Communication
  • To communicate to all relevant parties in a highly 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 both uni-and multi-disciplinary care. To overcome where necessary barriers and resistance to understanding communication, and to deal effectively with any hostility that may arise to information concerned.
  • To provide expert consultation about the psychological care of the client group to staff and agencies outside the Directorate, and CNWL Trust.
  • To provide consultation on organizational matters and systems, as required.
  • To contribute to the Allied Health Professional Management Group by attendance at monthly meetings.

Information
  • Responsible for creating an information system that records, monitors and manages referrals to both services, in a format clear enough to allow mapping of referral pathways and facilitate clinical audit.
  • Responsible for ensuring information about activity of the service is reported on a regular basis, including referrals to the service, volume of individual patient contacts and completed episodes of patient care.
  • Responsible for writing and contributing to policies for operation.
  • To record up-to-date activity data in line with CNWL Trust in respect of all aspects of direct and indirect clinical work.
  • To keep adequate clinical records and ensure that these conform to the NHS Trust, local authority, and BPS standards policies on records and file keeping. Have knowledge of the legislation, rules and procedures governing patient and other agency access to information on records and to advise staff of these procedures.


Person Specification Training and Qualifications Essential
  • Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
  • Registration with the HCPC
Desirable
  • Post-graduate training in an evidence-based therapeutic technique of use to the service
  • Post-graduate training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience Essential
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
  • Significant experience of providing senior leadership to a psychology team at a Band 8 or equivalent, making and implementing clinical decisions.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect t

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