ConsultantPsychiatry

Consultant Practitioner Psychologist - Adult Mental Health

Powys Teaching Health Board

TBC

Salary

£80,698 – £92,984

Posted

4 weeks ago

About the role

Powys Teaching Health Board is seeking an experienced and inspirational Consultant Practitioner Psychologist to lead our Adult Psychology and Psychological Therapies Service. This is a senior leadership position offering the opportunity to shape and influence the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological services across Adult Mental Health. As a key member of the Psychology Leadership Team, you will provide strategic, professional and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and psychologically informed services. You will lead and manage a multidisciplinary psychology workforce, oversee clinical governance, workforce development, service improvement, audit and research activities, and promote a culture where staff, service users and carers can thrive. Alongside your leadership responsibilities, you will maintain a specialist clinical caseload, providing highly specialist assessment, formulation and intervention for adults experiencing complex and severe mental health difficulties across community and inpatient settings.

The post holder will: Provide strategic, operational and clinical leadership for the Adult Psychology and Psychological Therapies Service, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based psychological care. They will lead service planning, development and improvement initiatives, oversee clinical governance arrangements and ensure effective supervision, professional development and workforce support for psychological practitioners. Manage senior clinical staff, leading recruitment and induction processes, coordinating service meetings, monitoring waiting lists and supporting the delivery of accessible, culturally competent and psychologically informed services. Contribute to local, regional and national developments in psychological practice and represent psychology within multidisciplinary and strategic forums. Hold a specialist caseload and provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for adults with complex and severe mental health difficulties. Offer consultation and supervision to multidisciplinary colleagues, contribute to risk assessment and management, and support evidence-based practice across services. Lead and oversee audit, service evaluation and research activities, using outcomes and evidence to drive continuous service improvement and enhance the quality of care provided across Adult Mental Health services.

Person specification

Essential

Post-graduate Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology accredited by the HCPC (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 as accredited by the BPS)
HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
Additional training beyond entry-level qualification in a specialised area of psychological practice through formal post qualification training (PG Diploma or equivalent), OR a combination of specialist short courses and/or an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice-based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
Advanced knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for adult mental health
Advanced knowledge of psychological assessment and clinical psychometrics
Doctoral level knowledge of psychological research methodology and complex statistical analysis
Knowledge of the theory and practice of management and leadership
Extensive and demonstrable experience of working as a HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist within services for adults with complex mental health /psychological issues
Extensive experience of working with a wide range of patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and in-patient
Undertaking leadership and/or management roles
Teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision
Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
Delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions
NHS recruitment and induction processes
Proposing and implementing service development projects that impact beyond own service area.
NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies
Audit and evaluation of clinical services
Manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialty issues
Design and implement policies for people with complex psychological needs and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity
Select and administer specialist psychological assessments, interpreting and integrating complex data that require analysis, interpretation and comparison, drawn from several sources, on which expert opinion may differ
Communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information
Plan delivery of psychology and psychotherapy services to the client group and carers, involving partner agencies
Well-developed consultation skills to work with the multi-professional team or other professional groups
Well-developed IT skills including entry and analysis of research data and for teaching purposes
Providing teaching and training to other professional groups
Identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
Commitment to working collaboratively with users of services and their care partners to develop and improve services
Ability to travel between work sites in a timely manner

Desirable

Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions
BABCP registration
Working with service users in coproduction
Leading and managing psychological service(s) in an NHS setting
Managing practitioner psychologists and psychological practitioners in an NHS setting
Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn