Overview
Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CERN and TIC Lead – NHS AfC: Band 8c. Permanent, full-time (37.5 hours per week). Location: Oldham. Salary: £79,504 – £91,609 pa, pro rata.
Site: Complex Emotional and Relational Needs Pathway (Oldham).
If you are kind, fair, ingenious and determined, you are invited to join Pennine Care to help develop and lead specialist care for individuals with Complex Emotional & Relational Needs (CERN) across Oldham. This role supports transformation of community mental health services, governance, quality improvement to improve care, and strong MDT working. The successful postholder will join the borough leadership team and work closely with operational, quality and medical colleagues to deliver outstanding care across Oldham. You will collaborate with colleagues across teams, including structured clinical management practitioners, neighbourhood mental health teams, specialist mental health teams, DBT, MBT and DTC services, and acute colleagues. There are four other Consultant Psychologists leading CERN pathways in other boroughs with whom you will work alongside.
Main duties of the job
- Take a strategic clinical lead within Oldham for service provision for people with complex emotional and relational needs (CERN) across the adult pathway, including older adults.
- Support and promote the development and delivery of specialist pathways of provision within the borough, including both community and acute settings, ensuring trauma-informed care.
- Enhance a psychologically and trauma-informed approach to leadership across services by joining the borough leadership team to create a quadrumvirate leadership model.
- Support colleagues and services to work within a one-system approach, ensuring cohesive MDT teams that provide outstanding care.
- Support the Psychological Therapies leadership structure for CERN in relation to strategic development of services across the GM footprint.
Working for our organisation
We provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and community-based across five boroughs of Greater Manchester: Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is to enable a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities, and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care. We are proud of our Pennine Care people and strive to be a great place to work.
We encourage applications from all groups and welcome candidates with lived experience of mental illness as either an individual or as a carer.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, or a pre-1996 qualification, or a Masters in Clinical Psychology with evidence of post-qualification Doctorate-level CPD, clinical and research knowledge and experience.
- Eligible to be a member of the British Psychological Society.
- Registered with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Postgraduate qualification in a psychological therapy approach.
- Evidence of post-qualification training in psychological therapies for personality disorder.
- Evidence of substantial continued professional development.
- Management or leadership qualification (certificate level or above) or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of post-qualification supervision in psychological therapies for personality disorder.
Experience
- Experience and track record in senior clinical leadership within psychological therapy services.
- Significant post-qualification experience delivering evidence-based interventions to people with personality disorder or those with complex emotional and relational needs and their families (e.g., DBT, SCM, MBT).
- Experience supervising others including psychological therapists and other professions in the delivery of evidence-based psychological therapies.
- Experience training multi-professional groups.
- Significant experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency work, including consultation.
- Substantial experience of risk assessment, risk management and safeguarding.
- Experience working in a multi-cultural context and cross-system collaboration.
- Experience of service development and effective multi-agency collaboration, including with third sector partners and other public sector providers.
- Experience of line management, pathway development, and working across adult psychological therapy services and with older adults.
- Research, service evaluation and clinical audit experience, and ability to present in high-pressure situations.
- Experience of working with Experts by Experience and Carers in service design/delivery.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of current government strategy and policy relating to adult mental health.
- Awareness of the NHS Long Term Plan and its implications for service delivery.
- Understanding of national strategy for Integrated Care Systems and Primary Care Networks.
- Extensive knowledge of the evidence base for psychological interventions with CERN, trauma history and personality disorders.
- Knowledge of trauma-informed practice principles and their implications for service design.
- Knowledge of national clinical governance policy drivers (e.g., confidentiality, clinical risk management, complaints, research governance, NICE pathways).
Skills and Abilities
- Highly developed clinical skills in delivering psychological approaches and assessments.
- Strong supervisory abilities and compassionate leadership.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to establish effective working relationships across the organisation and with partner organisations.
- Ability to work in partnership with other professionals and agencies.
- Strong leadership and ability to lead change initiatives and translate strategic vision into practice.
- Business acumen, initiative and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage complex interpersonal negotiations, utilize supervisory structures to deliver safe services, and work under pressure.
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines, and to inspire commitment to high quality mental health care.
- Ability to manage budgets and contribute to service development.
Work related circumstances
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and equality and diversity.
- Willingness to travel across the Trust footprint (driving or other mobility).
- Agree to duties in line with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
- Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for regulated activities.
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