Clinical Service Manager for Psychosexual Service

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.

We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.

We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.

The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.

Our Values

We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.

As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a new clinical service manager post within the psychosexual service. This post allows the post holder to hone and develop their management skills while supporting the research and clinical work within the team.

Main duties of the job

The role would suit a motivated and committed Psychologist/psychotherapist/Family therapist or Art Therapist with skills and experience working with individuals and
couples presenting with complex sexual problems.
The successful candidate would have a proven record of delivering psychological therapy and be competent in at least one therapeutic modality e.g.
CBT and knowledge of psychosexual therapy, sexual dysfunction and issues around gender identity is required. To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialist psychological interventions for clients of the Psychosexual Service and will provide clinical leadership to more junior psychological practitioners and other professionals, as appropriate while managing the teams resources.

Working for our organisation

Psychosexual Service is an outpatient clinical service, part of the National Service Division, for adults aged 18 and over with no upper age limit. It
specialises in treating people with complex and persistent sexual problems. The service offers assessment and treatment for individuals and
couples who are experiencing difficulties with their sexual functioning, where the primary cause is psychological, or where the psychosexual
problem has developed as a result of physical pathology.
We have expertise in treating people with a range of sexual dysfunctions and gender-related difficulties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

KR 1 Clinical and Client Care
• To develop, co-ordinate and ensure the systematic provision of highly specialist psychological interventions for clients of the Psychosexual Clinic
• To provide highly specialist psychological assessments, formulations and interventions for clients of the clinic according to discipline including evidence based treatments for psychosexual dysfunction and sexual trauma.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychological interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
• To provide culturally appropriate psychological or psychotherapeutic interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required.
• To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families.
• To select and deliver evidence-based specialist therapeutic interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group.
• To promote psychological support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.

KR 2 Responsibilities for team or service clinical functioning
• To co-ordinate (and chair) meetings for the Psychosexual Clinic, to ensure effective functioning of the team
• To take a lead in ensuring a psychologically and psychotherapeutically informed framework for the Psychosexual Clinic(part of a service).
• To lead in developing the team or service's delivery of accessible and acceptable services to diverse local communities.
• To take the lead in challenging discrimination and support the development of culturally competent services.
• To advise other members of the service on specialist psychological care of clients.
• To liaise with referrers, GPs and other professionals concerned with clients in order to develop and review care plans.
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• To liaise with the service/s MDT and other professionals.

KR 3 Policy and service development
• To implement policies and procedures in own area of work.
• To identify any aspects of the psychosexual service which could be improved and propose changes to practices or procedures that affect psychosexual service and may also affect other services.
• To initiate and implement service development projects, as agreed with clinical/professional lead.

KR 4 Care or management of resources
• To take care of, and use carefully, the Trust's equipment and physical resources.
• To ensure that the post-holder has sufficient resources by estimating future needs and requesting or ordering supplies as needed.
• To ensure the cleanliness and safe functioning and use of equipment that will be used by clients or other persons.
• To monitor and advise clients on the safe use of materials and processes.

KR 5 Management and supervision
• To provide clinical leadership to more junior psychological practitioners and other professionals, as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the allocation and/or clinical supervision of the work of more junior psychological practitioners.
• To supervise trainees within own area of specialism having completed the relevant training.
• To undertake the appraisal of more junior psychological therapists
• To lead on the recruitment of more junior psychological practitioners

KR 6 Teaching and Training
• To undertake occasional teaching and training of pre and post-qualification psychological practitioners and specialised training to other professions as appropriate (if formal teaching is a major regular component of the job, reword this item accordingly)
• To contribute to the development of the knowledge and skills base within the service by maintaining an active awareness of current developments in psychology and by implementing knowledge gained in practice.

KR 7 Record-keeping and Information Governance
• To ensure that all information generated by own work is recorded as required by Trust policies and local procedures.
• To ensure the highest standards of clinical record keeping and report writing, according to professional and Trust guidelines, including electronic data entry, in those parts of the service for which the post-holder has leadership responsibility.

KR 8 Research and development
• To initiate, undertake, support and supervise regular complex service evaluation and audits
• To initiate/carry out appropriate research
• To initiate and implement the development of outcome measurement and assessment and assist other staff in the implementation of same.

KR 9 Maintaining professional standards and continuing professional development
• To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from a more senior psychological practitioners according to professional and Trust guidelines.
• To maintain own Continuing Professional Development in line with registration body and Trust Personal Development Plan requirements and the professional Standards for Continuing Professional Development.

KR10 General
• To travel to meetings as appropriate and across the Trust when required
• To be aware of risk relating to aggressive and challenging behaviour amongst the client group, and follow trust policies relating to its management.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Entry-level qualification in applied psychological therapy/mental health/social welfare profession or equivalent and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus PG Diploma level/supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
• Completed training course in clinical supervision and/or accredited to supervised qualified psychological practitioners in relevant discipline
• Registered with professional body as appropriate to discipline HCPC/UKCP/BABCP

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of having worked as a clinical specialist under supervision in the area of psychosexual dysfunction
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature in psychosexual dysfunction
• Experience of proposing and implementing service development projects within own service

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Advanced knowledge of the theory of psychological therapy and it's therapeutic application in the area of psychosexual dysfunction.
• To deliver psychological/psychotherapeutic therapy across cultural and other differences
• Knowledge of racial and other diversity issues and factors affecting access to mental health care
• Knowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to discipline

Skills

Essential criteria

• Advanced skills in working with a number of clients and systems together, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the systems in ways, which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes
• Advanced skills in professional supervision; including skills for offering live supervision of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.
• Well-developed IT skills

abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate
• Ability to manage highly complex situations involving multiple difficulties, and competing/conflicting views about those difficulties; and to help create contexts that develop systemic engagement, and harness the strengths and abilities of those involved in order to work towards solutions
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic meetings

The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:

• Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
• Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
• We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity

Please note:

• That all applications for this post will need to be made online
• That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
• That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
• That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
• That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
• That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
• That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
• That we are a smoke-free Trust

SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe'

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Psychosexual CSM and person Spec (PDF, 776.5KB)
• SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)