Associate Network Director of Psychological Therapies

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
• High level ability to communicate effectively at both written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS
• Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups
• High level skills in clinical and professional supervision
• Ability to think and plan strategically at a clinical and service level, where interventions may impact on a range of services and individuals and require longer term objectives and planning
• Ability to provide teaching, training, advice, consultation and supervision to meet the needs of a wide range of lay and professional people, using a range of formats and materials
• Ability to effectively respond to, and cope with, complex client, team and system dynamics and environments, where this may involve high levels of emotional and psychological stress and distress
• Ability to articulate and represent psychological therapies services perspectives in a range of clinical and professional fora

Essential

• Good honours degree in psychology
• Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
• Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology, (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological theories and lifespan development psychology
• HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical)
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Essential

• Assessed substantial experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings. Also including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse
• Experience of providing a range of complex psychological assessment and interventions using information derived from a variety of sources and requiring highly developed analytic and interpretative skills.
• Experience of staff, team and service management
• Experience of working within environments involving exposure to significant professional, clinical and ethical challenges.
• Experience of effective multi-agency and disciplinary team working and networking.
• Experience of clinical and professional management of qualified and pre- qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological therapists
• Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy fora
• Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision
• Experience of strategic service development and evaluation

Essential

• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health
• Awareness of relevant professional guidelines and standards for the provision of psychological services and ability to interpret and implement the same in practice and service delivery