This is an exciting clinical leadership role in which you will be challenged and supported to develop your potential. Visionary and strategic in approach, you will champion a culture based on principles of recovery, compassion, choice, and personalised care.
You will be committed to providing evidence-based practice and will be aware of current national drivers relating to mental health services for people with Complex Emotional Needs. Working closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will be central to the development of treatment pathway for people with complex emotional needs, pulling together established DBT and CAT practitioners and working alongside other Principle Psychologists in the mood disorder pathway and Psychosis Pathway.
You will offer supervision, training and reflective practice to staff within the service. You will also devote some time to direct clinical work alongside a dedicated team of therapists., As a senior clinician with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of psychological expertise within the Community Mental Health Service.
Working with the leadership team, clinical staff and peer support staff towards the development and maintenance of a multi-professional therapeutic environment will aim to provide the highest quality psychologically informed care for adults with severe mental health problems.
The postholder will also provide management and specialist clinical supervision to other psychological professionals working within the Community Mental Health Teams in Fareham CMHT and Gosport CMHT. Where there may be gaps in the service, providing support to other patches within the division in agreement with the Lead Psychologist. The duties will include ensuring job planning, pathways being embedded in their geographical patch and providing performance and quality data to the Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
The post holder will provide strategic oversight to the Complex Emotional Needs Pathway to ensure equitable provisions for patients under secondary care in the PSEH division. The role has a potential to develop across the division. This will include bringing alignment to the DBT teams within the division and holding conversation with other teams to support the development of complex emotional needs offer.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
£66,582 to £77,368 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
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