Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-6281417-CG
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Caludon Centre
- Town
- Coventry
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/07/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Inpatient adult wards
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
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Job overview
We are expanding the number of Consultant Clinical Psychologists within our inpatient mental health services in line with operational senior leadership recognition of the value that clinical psychologists at a senior level bring.
We are excited to be able to expand the number of Consultant Clinical Psychologist roles within our inpatient mental health wards. We have redesigned our model in line with the recent ACP-UK guidelines about inpatient mental health services and as a Trust are working towards being able to staff that model fully.
This is a 0.5 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist Role across 4 mental health wards for working age adults. You will join our supportive Inpatient and urgent care Psychological Services team which is part of the wider inpatient and urgent care services. There are 1.9 WTE Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the service already, covering urgent care, older adults and adults of working age. Your role will be to work alongside a current post holder to develop and embed services within 4 wards.
Main duties of the job
We have a number of pathways including one with 3 female wards and a female PICU, one with 3 male wards and a male PICU, one with 2 Rehab wards and additional assessment / short admission ward for working age adults which is not part of the rehab pathway. There is additionally a pathway of 4 wards for older adults which has a substantive post holder in place. You will be asked to work within one of these groups of wards but may be asked to input to a different set of working age adult wards if service needs arise.
Using your expert knowledge and skills you will provide leadership, consultation, and supervision for colleagues working with mental health inpatients. You will be responsible for the governance of psychological interventions and provide expert psychological advice to senior management both about psychological services but also the wider inpatient teams. You will hold responsibility for a range of senior and junior psychological professionals across various specialties, as well as managing your own clinical caseload.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
These roles require highly developed communication skills, being authentic and truly engaged with multi-professional team working, respecting others and excellent relationship building skills, and additionally offer back much satisfaction and a chance to make a tangible difference to the lives of people experiencing mental health challenges which require an inpatient admission. Inpatient services are currently engaged in a 3 year transformation programme focusing on purposeful admissions, increasing therapeutic interventions and proactive discharge. This offers an opportunity for development of new models and to contribute to effective and compassionate admissions.
This role is a key member of the senior clinical leadership team within Mental Health Acute Services. Under the professional leadership of the Directorate Lead for Psychological Services and Professions and working closely with operational leads in, and managed by the Mental Health Associate Director of Operations , this role will provide clinical leadership and governance for parts of either Mental Health Inpatient Services or Urgent Care services.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registration with the HCPC in Clinical Psychology.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the designated services
- Post-doctoral training relevant to the post.
- Extensive experience of team working.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of clinical leadership and service development.
- Extensive experience of working with adults with mental health difficulties and those experiencing mental health crises.
- Extensive experience of delivering highly specialist services.
- Experience of working with a range of clients, presenting a range of clinical severity and maintenance of professionalism in challenging circumstances.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Christine Laking
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Older Adults IP
- Email address
- [email protected]
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