Job overview

Are you excited by the opportunity to lead the further development of psychological services in our Children & Families Care Group to ensure they are at the forefront of practice and effective in their delivery?

Are you experienced in professional, strategic and clinical leadership of psychological practice?

If so, we would love to hear from you.

We have a diverse portfolio of services which includes specialist mental health services for children and young people and perinatal and maternal mental health services.  You will provide leadership of psychological practice across the Care Group, in accordance with Trust values, ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient, innovative and high quality services for patients and their families/carers.

As Professional Lead you will agree objectives for delivery in conjunction with the Care Group Clinical Care Director and the Trust-wide Director of Psychological Services, taking into account service priorities and the time available to effectively deliver the role.

Psychological professionals are well regarded within the Trust and seen as relatable, collaborative and valuable to developing quality services. You will be supported by the Director of Psychological Services and the Trust-wide group of Psychological Leads.

Click the link below to learn more about psychological services in children and young people’s mental health:

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Main duties of the job

This role is pivotal in ensuring the safe and effective delivery of Psychological practice across services delivered within the Care Group This is achieved through providing excellent professional leadership to those staff delivering psychological services and interventions as part of their roles, supporting the development of high quality clinical governance and highest standards of psychological care. 

It is important that both internal and external perspectives are reflected both into the Care Group and organisation and there is an expectation that the role will forge external links beyond the Care Group and organisation. The role will also work closely with the Director of Psychological Services for MPFT to ensure that the organisational strategic direction is supported by the Care Group.

The post-holder will contribute to clinical service discussions at a clinical consultant level  within Children and Families Services (which is inclusive of perinatal services). ‘the professional lead element of this role is 0.6WTE, for people looking for full time or more hours we can work with the successful candidate to identify clinical hours within our range of services depending on the expertise and knowledge of the candidate.  This could be in perinatal mental health, Children and Adolescent Mental health or in Neurodevelopmental services (CYP Autism/ADHD)

Full details regarding the duties of this role can be found in the attached job description and personal specification.

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people. 

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications