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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
About
The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership took its present form in April 2001 in order to provide specialist mental health services to people across Avon and Wiltshire.
Our multi-professional teams include some people who you might expect:
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Nurses
Healthcare assistants
However they also include many other people with skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to your individual care and treatment:
Social workers
Mental health workers
Occupational therapists
Arts therapists
Dietitians
Physiotherapists
Psychotherapists
Service-user involvement workers
Community development workers
A carer's caseworker
Medical secretaries
And many more!
Behind the scenes our teams are supported by housekeeping teams, security staff, maintenance teams, personnel staff, recruitment specialist to ensure that we have the right people to address your needs, a childcare co-ordinator, an estates team to make sure our facilities are of a high quality, catering teams, accounting and finance teams, training specialists, clinical governance specialists to make sure that our working practices are the best they can be, a pharmacist, IT professionals, a press and communications team, researchers and more.
The hospitals covered by the Trust include:
Green Lane Hospital, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 5DS
Tel: 01380 731200 Beds 60
Hillview Lodge, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, Somerset, BA1 3NG
Tel: 01225 428331 Beds 57
St Martins Hospital, Midford Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2 5RP
Tel: 01225 832383 Beds 46
Charter House, Seymour Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 8LS
Tel: 01225 774561 Beds 26
Blackberry Hill Hospital, Manor Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 2EW. Tel: 0117 965 6061
Long Fox Unit, Weston General Hospital, Weston Super Mare, Avon BS23 4TQ. Tel: 01934 647084
Donal Early House, Mental Health Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB. Tel: 0117 959 5821
Band 8c Consultant Clinical Psychologist - Bristol
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Primary Site: Callington Road Hospital
- Address
- Marmalade Lane
- Town
- Bristol
- Postcode
- BS4 5BJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Somerset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 Per annum, pro rata (Pay award pending)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Job overview
This new post is an exciting opportunity to provide leadership, management and clinical expertise to acute inpatient wards within the division of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). This will include all of the acute inpatient wards for adults and older adults.
You will also work with senior colleagues to ensure the provision of seamless access to psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as part of the acute pathway.
You will lead an expanded multi professional psychological therapies service delivering a trauma informed model of care. This will include development and oversight of training programmes and supervision networks to support culture change and embed Trauma Informed care at the centre of service transformation.
You will collaborate with colleagues in BSW to ensure a standardised approach across services based on evidence-based practice. This will include working collaboratively to develop an evaluation and outcomes framework for Psychological therapy services and reporting of service activity and outcomes to the commissioning body, with the aim of demonstrating the impact of new investment.
Advert
We are looking for someone:
1. To manage capacity effectively to respond to demand placed upon the service. To act as part of the wider relevant locality management team.
2. To provide leadership and expertise to Psychological Professionals within Acute adult and Older Adult Inpatient Services.
3. To take the lead role in new developments in relation to Psychological Therapies to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework.
4. To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases.
5. To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees and assistants from all professions within the inpatient services and across the psychological therapies.
6. To undertake highly specialist research and service evaluation.
7. To work in partnership with Service Users, Carers, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, third sector organisations in the development and delivery of services.
8. To work with senior managers and system partners to explore and pursue business opportunities.
9. To work across systems/providers in the locality to ensure effective pathways for Service Users.
10. To work alongside the ICB and ICS across both BNSSG and BSW to have an active role in strategic development, aligned to ICB and ICS outcomes.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
You will receive excellent support and supervision from well-established management and therapies teams. There will be opportunities for continuing professional development and development of innovative research projects. We have close links to the University of Bath, the University of Exeter and the University of South Wales.
Issues of diversity, accessibility and equality of access are priorities for any successful applicant.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary
To provide specialist integrated clinical leadership and management to the acute adult and older adult inpatient Service /acute pathway in relation to psychological therapies and psychologically informed interventions across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG).
Description of the duties
1. To manage capacity effectively to respond to demand placed upon the service. To act as part of the wider relevant locality management team.
2. To provide leadership and expertise to Psychological Professionals within Acute adult and Older Adult Inpatient Services.
3. To take the lead role in new developments in relation to Psychological Therapies to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework.
4. To assist and facilitate e.g. train managers and clinicians to use the skills available within the staff team and other services to develop, evaluate and deliver a high quality and coordinated service.
5. To participate in and provide specialist advice to relevant aspects of policy making, strategic planning, management and clinical governance.
6. To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases, providing advice and consultancy for patients and their carers, and specialist clinical supervision to professionals.
7. To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees and assistants from all professions within the inpatient services and across the psychological therapies.
8. To undertake highly specialist research and service evaluation both within and outside the Trust, including contributing to the development of the evidence base in the field and evidencing the work of this new team effectively. To organise and supervise the R&D activities of others.
9. To work in partnership with Service Users, Carers, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, third sector organisations in the development and delivery of services.
10. To work with senior managers and system partners to explore and pursue business opportunities consistent with the divisional business plan.
11. To work across systems/providers in the locality to ensure effective pathways for Service Users.
12. To work alongside the ICB and ICS across both BNSSG and BSW to have an active role in strategic development, aligned to ICB and ICS outcomes.
KEY RESULT AREAS:
A. MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT (up to half time)
1. To manage and provide strategic leadership to the Psychological Professions in the services, ensuring that everyone receives support, supervision, annual appraisals and a development plan which ensures on-going service development that fits the needs and priorities of each sector.
2. To provide professional guidance and advice to ensure professional standards are maintained across all psychological professions including those employed by the wider system.
3. To liaise with the senior managers to ensure that an appropriate range of services are provided by psychological professions within inpatient services.
4. The post holder will ensure the delivery of performance targets and standards across the Services.
5. To take a lead role in service/business development and performance monitoring of Psychological Therapies in the Area. This includes horizon scanning for new service development opportunities which support the Business Plan.
6. To identify gaps in service provision and also to seek opportunities for the development of Psychological Therapies within defined frameworks and with agreement from senior managers.
7. To Lead the continued development of the Inpatient models, working closely with colleagues in BSW to ensure alignment.
8. To be a source of psychological expertise to managers, professional colleagues and ICB’s on both public and internal matters.
9. To deal with complaints and disciplinary matters in liaison with other managers and professional leads, especially those of a particularly complex nature.
10. To support the negotiation of Service Level Agreements for psychological therapy provision in the Service and externally to other agencies, working closely with relevant senior managers.
11. To convene and chair regular psychological therapy meetings.
12. To establish a framework for effective management of psychological professions in the Locality.
13. The post holder will contribute to the drawing up of department/service budgets.
14. To ensure that Trust Health and Safety Regulations are adopted within the Psychological Therapies Pathways.
15. To identify appropriate staffing levels and skill mix of Psychological Professions.
16. To promote the Trust in professional networks and to ensure that other Psychological Professionals do likewise in specific situations relevant to their posts and responsibilities.
B. CLINICAL (Note psychological treatment covers Psychology, CBT, Arts Psychotherapy, Family Therapy and Psychotherapy):
1. To provide a highly developed Clinical Service comprising psychological/assessment and therapy, consultation and teaching and supervision.
2. To formulate plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s mental health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
4. To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To be responsible for ensuring that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation.
6. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care to clients, carers, relatives and other staff and respond appropriately in situations where there is hostility or a highly charged emotional atmosphere.
7. To receive appropriate Clinical and Caseload supervision for all aspects of clinical work.
8. To fully implement the Integrated Care Programme Approach in all aspects of clinical work.
C. PROFESSIONAL:
1. To fully observe relevant Professional Practice Guidelines.
2. To work with Professional Leads to maintain and further develop high standards of practice, through co-operative work and peer supervision with other Psychological Professions within and outside the Trust.
3. To be aware of and adhere to Trust policies and procedures.
D. CLINICAL AND PRACTICE GOVERNANCE:
1. To support senior managers in the development and implementation of effective Clinical Governance across the Psychological Professions.
2. To participate in Clinical Governance processes in the Trust.
3. To act as a resource for clinical audit, and to develop and apply measures to monitor and evaluate clinical work among psychological therapists in the area.
4. To focus capacity on the delivery of effective, evidence-based interventions (e.g. as recommended by NICE).
E. TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT:
1. To provide advanced training for specialist practitioners within the Trust and to related agencies where agreed.
2. To promote the Trust by developing a specialist profile through publications, national and international conference presentations and the provision of specialist training.
3. With other senior managers and the Learning & Development Team, to ensure a training plan is in place to meet the needs of Psychological Professions
4. To ensure that all psychological therapists in the Locality have an on-going training plan with annual appraisals based on the KSF.
5. To agree a plan for personal development with senior managers and participate in an Annual Review.
6. To support the development of training and supervision mechanisms to train a range of other professional groups in the delivery of psychological interventions.
G. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:
1. To support, facilitate and supervise R&D activities by Psychological Professions.
2. To undertake research in topic areas relevant to the work of the service and to initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, to help develop and improve services to service users and their families.
H. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND RESOURCES:
1. To be responsible for the utilisation of IT equipment by Psychological Therapy staff within the Locality.
2. To use IT equipment to prepare reports, for teaching presentations, to record activity data and for the analysis of data from research and audit.
3. To maintain skills in IT, updating where necessary, in order to carry out the tasks in 2 above effectively.
I. COMMUNICATIONS AND KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
To be responsible for establishing good working relationships and communications with Psychological Therapy staff, staff from other professions, and other agencies.
To establish effective working relationships in the Area and across the Division (as appropriate) with:
Locality Managers
Divisional Managers
Services Managers
Modern Matrons
Team Managers
Voluntary Organisation Managers and Representatives
Users/Carers Representatives
Police, Probation Service
Corporate Trust Services: Governance, HR, Training, Finance, etc.
ICBs
Primary mental healthcare/IAPT services
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived-experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctorate Level training in Clinical / Counselling Psychology or equivalent professional training for other professions.
- Registered with the HPC or other equivalent regulatory body.
- Advanced Specialist Clinical qualification
Desirable criteria
- Management training/ qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial relevant post qualification experience.
- Consultancy work in multi-professional settings.
- Experience of work across service settings and agencies.
- Significant R&D work in specialist area.
- Clinical audit work in specialist area.
- Work in all areas of clinical governance.
- Teaching/training with own staff group and other professions.
- Advanced expertise in clinical supervision with all grades of staff and with other professions.
- Management of psychology staff or other professions.
Desirable criteria
- Work with Commissioners, including preparation of bids/business cases.
- Professional National role / links (e.g. DCP, BABCP, National Assessor, HAS, CHI etc.)
- Leadership of service redesign.
Specialised Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of specialist therapeutic interventions. Extensive experience with the client group.
- Expert psychological assessment and formulation skills. Expert complex assessments of own patients and also expert opinions to other agencies
- NHS management processes/system.
- Commissioning arrangements.
- Familiarity with all aspects of clinical governance.
- Publications in specialist area.
- Awareness of key strategic areas and implications for psychological therapy services.
Desirable criteria
- 1. National profile in specialty. Role and links nationally
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills in highly complex situations.
- Excellent relational/ engagement skills with the client group who present severe and complex mental health problems.
- High level of emotional maturity. Ability to tolerate, reflect upon and transform highly traumatic material and hostile behaviour
- Ability to cope with extreme workload pressure/prioritise workload
- Effective leadership.
- Planning and writing business case documents skills.
- Flexible presentation skills appropriate to setting.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced presentation skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Beth Perry
- Job title
- Head of Bristol CPI
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 9195680
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