Are you an experienced, dynamic Consultant Clinical Psychologist with expertise in providing effective senior leadership within multi-professional settings and processes? Do you have experience of leading sizeable service developments and improvements with proven impact?
We are looking to recruit to the post of Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions for Integrated Children's services, incorporating CAMHs, community physical health, Children's learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental services. This post will be part of the Directorate's Senior Leadership Team and will operationally account to the Director of Operations within the Directorate and professionally to the Director of Psychological Professions and services.
To be successful, you will already hold a Consultant Clinical Psychologist position. You will have considerable clinical experience and demonstrate highly specialist psychological knowledge about the service areas within the Directorate. You will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the national, regional and local context around these services and understand the many points of intersection of these services within the Trust and within our system partnerships. Ideally you will have led on the development of services for children and young people.
Main duties of the job Psychological services and staff are strongly valued in the Directorate and key to supporting the delivery of many of the Directorate's strategic and clinical priorities. These include ensuring the voice of children and young people is central to the design of services and improvements, reducing the number of young people needing admission to hospital because of their mental health, improving waiting times for assessment and treatment, working in a more integrated way and becoming an influential advocate for children and young people within the system. The Directorate already has a large group of Psychological Professional roles and this role will be crucial in further developing and expanding the Psychological Professions' workforce and associated clinical delivery models.
In this role you will play an essential part of leading on transformation and the development of new, psychologically informed services and clinical pathways, for example, our new ARFID pathway. You will lead on all programmes and processes that are psychological in nature and relate to all services in the Integrated Children's Directorate. You will be accountable for overseeing the governance of psychological interventions and practice within the Directorate services and within partner agencies where we provide psychological services. You will work to ensure engagement of Psychological Professions leads and staff in multi-professional working at all levels and processes within the Directorate.
About us At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We put 'people at our heart' this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description Job responsibilities In this role you will have responsibility for professionally and clinically leading the other Consultant grade Psychologists in the Directorate and will provide clinical supervision to these and other Consultants within the Trust as appropriate to your expertise. You will drive research and quality improvement, and actively engage in local, regional and national fora to support the development of these services. You will have excellent communication skills, be highly motivated, able to maintain focus and purpose, and respect and value team working at all levels. We are looking for someone who embraces co-production to help us achieve the best possible psychological services for children and young people and their families.
We are a warm, supportive and experienced group of Consultant Clinical Psychologists and you will be well-supported professionally by the Director of Psychological Professions and Services, the other Directorate Leads for Psychological Professions and Services and the wider Consultant Psychologist and Psychotherapists group. You will have regular clinical supervision and be supported to continue to professionally develop.
We strongly encourage applicants to contact us for an informal conversation about the post, are happy to answer any questions and look forward to talking with you.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential - Doctoral level psychological qualification or equivalent experience with HCPC registration
- Extensive experience in a senior position
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Specific management and/or leadership training
Knowledge and Skills Essential - Proven track record of achieving objectives
- Excellent Clinical and Clinical Leadership skills
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills
- Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences, verbally and in written reports
- Ability to present complex data to different audiences with different information needs
- Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change
- Flexibility - adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within changing environment
Experience Essential - Evidence of the development and application of competences for psychological services
- Evidence of Clinical Leadership
- Experience of managing change and associated behaviours
- Evidence of outcomes from application of professional leadership
Employer details Employer name Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust
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