Job summary

This is a clinical leadership role, in which you will be challenged and supported to develop your potential. You will help us develop and evaluate our enhanced mental health service across the six PCNs in Southampton. You will offer supervision, training and reflective practice to staff within the service. You will also devote some time to direct clinical work including specialist psychological assessments, formulations, groups and individual therapy.

We promote our staff’s professional development, including through supervision and training. Flexible working arrangements are possible, including some remote working according to clinical need. Please get in touch if you wish to discuss this.

As a Trust we have strong academic links and an excellent research profile. We were recently ranked number one nationally for Top Research Locations. This role would offer the successful candidate good opportunities to forge research links and develop a programme of evaluation and research in primary care mental health.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and keen to increase the diversity of our team.

** We offer a relocation package of up to 8,000 if you are looking to move from out of area**

If this role is of interest, please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

Whilst you will be a valued member of staff within Southern Health and have access to all the support and resources that this entails, you will also become a trusted and valued figure within primary care in Southampton. You will have the opportunity to engage with your local community and make links with multiple stakeholders across the wider system.

Visionary and strategic in approach, you will champion a culture based on principles of recovery, compassion, choice, and personalised care, providing a role model to the rest of the team. You will be committed to providing evidence-based practice and will be aware of current national drivers relating to mental health services in primary care.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

  • Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
  • We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
  • We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.
  • Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

    Date posted

    17 November 2022

    Pay scheme

    Agenda for change

    Band

    Band 8b

    Salary

    £56,164 to £65,262 a year based on full time hours

    Contract

    Permanent

    Working pattern

    Full-time, Part-time

    Reference number

    348-SOU-C-601B

    Job locations

    College Keep

    4-12 Terminus Terrace

    Southampton

    Hampshire

    SO14 3DT

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    To provide clinical leadership and oversight to specialist trauma-informed psychological services to patients on the treatment pathway across the primary care services within the Southampton PCNs. The post holder will work across multi-professional teams within the PCNs to support and facilitate the co-production of bespoke formulation driven psychological therapy. Ensuring a consistent, constant point of contact that is easily accessible across the PCNs and facilitating access to additional support where required in line with the ‘no wrong door’ approach.

    The post holder will support and contribute to the development of the service in accordance with an initial three-year plan embedding new ways of working in primary care with the view to continued service development and evaluation. They will oversee the provision of a high-quality service and contribute to this provision with high quality specialist psychological assessments, formulations, group and individual interventions. They will also offer clinical supervision, advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to the PMHT (Primary Mental Health Team), PCN professional community, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

    The post-holder is a member of the multi-professional team. As a senior clinician, with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of expertise within the development of the PCNs across Southampton.

    The postholder will work with the senior management team, clinical staff, and peer support staff, to take a lead role in the creation, development, containment and support of a multi-professional therapeutic environment and trauma-informed approach which can provide the highest quality psychologically informed care for the Southampton PCN network population.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    To provide clinical leadership and oversight to specialist trauma-informed psychological services to patients on the treatment pathway across the primary care services within the Southampton PCNs. The post holder will work across multi-professional teams within the PCNs to support and facilitate the co-production of bespoke formulation driven psychological therapy. Ensuring a consistent, constant point of contact that is easily accessible across the PCNs and facilitating access to additional support where required in line with the ‘no wrong door’ approach.

    The post holder will support and contribute to the development of the service in accordance with an initial three-year plan embedding new ways of working in primary care with the view to continued service development and evaluation. They will oversee the provision of a high-quality service and contribute to this provision with high quality specialist psychological assessments, formulations, group and individual interventions. They will also offer clinical supervision, advice and consultation on patients’ psychological care to the PMHT (Primary Mental Health Team), PCN professional community, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

    The post-holder is a member of the multi-professional team. As a senior clinician, with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of expertise within the development of the PCNs across Southampton.

    The postholder will work with the senior management team, clinical staff, and peer support staff, to take a lead role in the creation, development, containment and support of a multi-professional therapeutic environment and trauma-informed approach which can provide the highest quality psychologically informed care for the Southampton PCN network population.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Postgraduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Disclosure and Barring Service Check

    This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

    Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

    Additional information

    Disclosure and Barring Service Check

    This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

    Certificate of Sponsorship

    Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

    From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

    UK Registration

    Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).