Head of Psychology - Consultant Clinical/Counselling Psychologist
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £91,317 - £104,122 per annum inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, W10 6DZ |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6257705/333-J-KC-0781 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for Head of Psychology for the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea . This would be a part time role. Candidates will be a Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist with leadership experience to take on a professional leadership role at the Head of Psychology for CNWL's dynamic, successful and well-regarded integrated Psychology services.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The successful applicant will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychological services to service users and stake-holders of the borough psychology services; adult community mental health hubs, acute and urgent services and specialist trauma services. For Kensington and Chelsea this also includes Clinical Health Psychology at Chelsea . The post holder will have professional leadership responsibility for the day-to-day clinical management and practice of psychological therapists and other staff working in the services. They will work closely with the Borough Director and Borough Clinical Director and join the Borough Senior Management Team in the delivery of excellent mental health and social care across the borough. The successful candidate will be supported by the Trust Chief Psychologist and other senior colleagues.
Potential candidates are strongly encouraged to seek further information by contacting
CNWL Trust Values
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
Leadership, governance and management of the CNWL psychology provision and the psychological professions staff within the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Specifically Adult Mental Health Community, Adult Acute and Crisis Services, Early Intervention Service, Grenfell Services, Woodfield Road Trauma Service
• To ensure the provision of psychology across the borough takes a whole system approach with co-ordination of care for service users, especially for those service users with the most complex needs accessing multiple services.
• To ensure the provision of psychology across the borough actively addresses health inequalities and is anti-discriminatory to meet the needs of all the communities within the borough having a staff team that is competent to do so and is itself diverse.
• To participate fully as a member of the multidisciplinary borough Senior Management Team. Working closely with the Brough Director, Clinical Director and other senior colleagues. Providing managerial and psychological expertise, advice and consultation to other members of the team.
• To be professionally responsible for the delivery of psychosocial interventions across Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Services including clinical oversight of all adult psychological therapy pathways. To ensure the services are accessible and acceptable to
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service users from all local communities and addresses health inequalities in the access to and provision of services.
• To be responsible to the Chief Psychologist for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of applied psychology in the Borough services and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision. To ensure that relevant National and Trust policy, standards and directorate targets for services the post has responsibility for are being met.
• To propose and implement policy and service development and to lead on service evaluation and research.
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• To be responsible for provision of effective teaching, training and clinical supervision in psychological and trauma informed approaches and the provision of expert psychological advice for all mental health service staff in K&C.
• To work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams, understanding the process of change in services and implementation of innovation within systems. Working with a range of professionals, service users and carers to facilitate involvement in service planning and delivery.
• To ensure effective partnership and liaison with other professional disciplines and with relevant partner agencies at both a strategic and operational level within the Borough, Division, Trust and wider system.
• To contribute to current developments in the field of psychology and related psychological professions, both locally and nationally. Actively participate in the Trust Psychology Leadership Group and collaborate with counterpart Heads of Psychology in other CNWL boroughs.
• To ensure that allocated human and financial resources are used effectively where appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
An exciting opportunity has arisen to apply for Head of Psychology for the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea . This would be a part time role. Candidates will be a Consultant Clinical / Counselling Psychologist with leadership experience to take on a professional leadership role at the Head of Psychology for CNWL's dynamic, successful and well-regarded integrated Psychology services.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The successful applicant will ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality psychological services to service users and stake-holders of the borough psychology services; adult community mental health hubs, acute and urgent services and specialist trauma services. For Kensington and Chelsea this also includes Clinical Health Psychology at Chelsea . The post holder will have professional leadership responsibility for the day-to-day clinical management and practice of psychological therapists and other staff working in the services. They will work closely with the Borough Director and Borough Clinical Director and join the Borough Senior Management Team in the delivery of excellent mental health and social care across the borough. The successful candidate will be supported by the Trust Chief Psychologist and other senior colleagues.
Potential candidates are strongly encouraged to seek further information by contacting
CNWL Trust Values
Compassion: Our staff will be led by compassion and embody the values of care outlined in our Staff Charter.
Respect: We will respect and value the diversity of our patients, service users and staff, to create a respectful and inclusive environment, which recognises the uniqueness of each individual.
Empowerment: We will involve, inform and empower our patients, service users, carers and their families to take an active role in the management of their illness and adopt recovery principles. We will ensure our staff receive appropriate direction and support, to enable them to develop and grow.
Partnership: We will work closely with our many partners to ensure that our combined efforts are focused on achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we serve.
Leadership, governance and management of the CNWL psychology provision and the psychological professions staff within the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Specifically Adult Mental Health Community, Adult Acute and Crisis Services, Early Intervention Service, Grenfell Services, Woodfield Road Trauma Service
• To ensure the provision of psychology across the borough takes a whole system approach with co-ordination of care for service users, especially for those service users with the most complex needs accessing multiple services.
• To ensure the provision of psychology across the borough actively addresses health inequalities and is anti-discriminatory to meet the needs of all the communities within the borough having a staff team that is competent to do so and is itself diverse.
• To participate fully as a member of the multidisciplinary borough Senior Management Team. Working closely with the Brough Director, Clinical Director and other senior colleagues. Providing managerial and psychological expertise, advice and consultation to other members of the team.
• To be professionally responsible for the delivery of psychosocial interventions across Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Services including clinical oversight of all adult psychological therapy pathways. To ensure the services are accessible and acceptable to
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service users from all local communities and addresses health inequalities in the access to and provision of services.
• To be responsible to the Chief Psychologist for the monitoring and implementation of professional standards in the practice of applied psychology in the Borough services and for the systematic and effective provision of professional supervision. To ensure that relevant National and Trust policy, standards and directorate targets for services the post has responsibility for are being met.
• To propose and implement policy and service development and to lead on service evaluation and research.
•
• To be responsible for provision of effective teaching, training and clinical supervision in psychological and trauma informed approaches and the provision of expert psychological advice for all mental health service staff in K&C.
• To work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams, understanding the process of change in services and implementation of innovation within systems. Working with a range of professionals, service users and carers to facilitate involvement in service planning and delivery.
• To ensure effective partnership and liaison with other professional disciplines and with relevant partner agencies at both a strategic and operational level within the Borough, Division, Trust and wider system.
• To contribute to current developments in the field of psychology and related psychological professions, both locally and nationally. Actively participate in the Trust Psychology Leadership Group and collaborate with counterpart Heads of Psychology in other CNWL boroughs.
• To ensure that allocated human and financial resources are used effectively where appropriate.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024
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