Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead, PIH
NHS Jobs Brixton
Key Responsibilities: Clinical and Client Care To plan, organise and ensure the delivery of psychology and psychotherapy services in Psychology in Hostels (PIH) services. To deliver Mentalisation-Based Treatment within the PIH team and oversee the delivery of an MBT-informed PIE PIH service.
To provide and oversee the delivery of evidence based and culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. Teaching, Training, and Supervision To be responsible for planning, organising, and the delivery of teaching and training of pre- and post- qualification psychologists and specialist training to other professions in the PiH team.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the PiH teams by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, psychological therapies, Homelessness, PIEs, Mentalization-Based Treat (MBT) and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision to senior members of the team for all aspects of their work. To coordinate and oversee the provision of a PIE training programme for third sector partners across Lambeth and Westminster delivered by the PiH team.
Team and Service Clinical Functioning To work with the leads/managers of other SLaM and CNWL services and of other agencies services (particularly the homeless sector) to plan and deliver joint services that are integrated around the needs of service users.
To ensure the effective working of the team or service and a psychologically informed framework for the service. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients. To lead recruitment of all staff including the psychology and psychotherapy staff in the PiH teams.
To support the wellbeing of the PiH teams through formal and informal systems used to identify and address issues. Clinical and Client Care Policy and Service Development Lead on winning bids, grants, tendering and commissioning, and support recommissioning, funding management and contract delivery.
To lead on developing service sustainability models, recommissioning and grant applications, including working with relevant SLaM Corporate, Legal and Contracts teams and directorate leadership as required To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of PiH services and in partnership organisations and services.
To support the PiH service to be national leaders in service design and delivery for working with homeless people and those experiencing multiple disadvantage through the continued development of innovative Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) practice.
To be responsible for applying clinical governance standards within the PiH teams and ensure that these are maintained and improved. To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards and local authority commissioners and direct provider contracts.
Service Leadership To provide leadership to psychologists, psychotherapists and other professionals in the PiH teams. Contribute support a service culture and values in line with Trust values as well as the teams vision of addressing health inequalities and multiple disadvantage of people experiencing homelessness, and the value of cross-sector partnership working as ways of improving clinical practice and service delivery.
Research and Service Evaluation To provide expertise in the highly specialist research area which contributes to PiH and PIE more broadly. To develop and maintenance of a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures and mix-method evaluations as a way of improving clinical practice.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. Professional Responsibilities To receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to HCPC, BPS, or other relevant professional requirements and in-line with Trust guidelines.
To provide and oversee the delivery of evidence based and culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. Teaching, Training, and Supervision To be responsible for planning, organising, and the delivery of teaching and training of pre- and post- qualification psychologists and specialist training to other professions in the PiH team.
To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the PiH teams by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology, psychological therapies, Homelessness, PIEs, Mentalization-Based Treat (MBT) and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.
To provide clinical, professional and managerial supervision to senior members of the team for all aspects of their work. To coordinate and oversee the provision of a PIE training programme for third sector partners across Lambeth and Westminster delivered by the PiH team.
Team and Service Clinical Functioning To work with the leads/managers of other SLaM and CNWL services and of other agencies services (particularly the homeless sector) to plan and deliver joint services that are integrated around the needs of service users.
To ensure the effective working of the team or service and a psychologically informed framework for the service. To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients. To lead recruitment of all staff including the psychology and psychotherapy staff in the PiH teams.
To support the wellbeing of the PiH teams through formal and informal systems used to identify and address issues. Clinical and Client Care Policy and Service Development Lead on winning bids, grants, tendering and commissioning, and support recommissioning, funding management and contract delivery.
To lead on developing service sustainability models, recommissioning and grant applications, including working with relevant SLaM Corporate, Legal and Contracts teams and directorate leadership as required To initiate, implement and ensure appropriate service developments to improve the quality and delivery of PiH services and in partnership organisations and services.
To support the PiH service to be national leaders in service design and delivery for working with homeless people and those experiencing multiple disadvantage through the continued development of innovative Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) practice.
To be responsible for applying clinical governance standards within the PiH teams and ensure that these are maintained and improved. To take a lead role in ensuring that services to clients are of a high quality and are managed efficiently, according to the overall requirements of the Trust, NHS and government guidance and standards and local authority commissioners and direct provider contracts.
Service Leadership To provide leadership to psychologists, psychotherapists and other professionals in the PiH teams. Contribute support a service culture and values in line with Trust values as well as the teams vision of addressing health inequalities and multiple disadvantage of people experiencing homelessness, and the value of cross-sector partnership working as ways of improving clinical practice and service delivery.
Research and Service Evaluation To provide expertise in the highly specialist research area which contributes to PiH and PIE more broadly. To develop and maintenance of a strong research culture that values the use of outcome measures and mix-method evaluations as a way of improving clinical practice.
To disseminate research and service evaluation findings through presentations and published articles. Professional Responsibilities To receive regular clinical and professional supervision according to HCPC, BPS, or other relevant professional requirements and in-line with Trust guidelines.
To ensure professional registration with the HCPC (for psychologists). For other therapists, to ensure professional accreditation with their relevant registry body is maintained. To ensure that all psychology and psychotherapy staff for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation TrustBrixton
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