Head of Psychology Services
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work collaboratively with multidisciplinary and managerial colleagues to achieve effective evidence-based psychological service provision, ensuring that services provided are high quality, cost-effective, culturally appropriate and based on best clinical and professional practice and meet Trust and service objectives, national strategic and policy guidelines, commissioner requirements and user/carer needs and expectations.
- To Lead on the strategic direction and supporting the effective delivery of psychological care for people affected by physical health problems within acute and community settings in the Trust.
- To act as Chief Psychological Professions Officer (CPPO) and represent UHCW at service, place, system and national forums. To be an active member of the Coventry and Warwickshire Psychological Professions Council and regularly attend the Clinical and Care Forum within the ICB to represent psychological professions within physical health settings.
- To act as a resource to senior management within UHCW on psychological aspects of physical health services, research and teaching. To support the Trust Executive Board and Trust Consultant Clinical Psychologists/Service Leads in the integration and development of policies associated with psychological care in physical health setting, including multidisciplinary team working as appropriate.
- To identify and translate national and local initiatives into local priorities in line with University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire values and corporate strategy to plan and develop psychological services for people affected by physical health problems working with the Trust Executive team, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/service leads, relevant Directorate leads and stakeholders.
- To ensure, and be responsible for, the autonomous and systematic service provision and provide professional leadership and accountability for all psychological services for people affected by physical health problems within UHCW including those working through a service level agreement.
- To advise on the development of appropriate psychological services for UHCW identifying service priorities, setting strategic objectives and managing clinical services, policy and service development, work force planning and income generation.
- To be responsible for the delivery of the business plan for Psychological Services.
- To be responsible for ensuring autonomous and systematic service provision of psychological services within the postholder's relevant professional specialty.
- To be responsible for encouraging and enabling the implementation of a continuing programme of research and evaluation within the field of clinical health psychology within the Trust.
- To take an active role in identifying and ensuring the effective application of research and evaluation of the improvement of patient wellbeing within the Trust.
- In addition to clinical management and service management, the post holder will provide teaching, training, consultancy, staff support, research and service evaluation.
- To liaise with Course Directors from the Coventry and Warwick Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training Course, and other regional Doctoral Clinical Psychology Courses as required, to be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of high quality, doctoral level placements in clinical psychology within the Trust for clinical psychology trainees.
- To co-ordinate and implement research and development activities and programmes, multidisciplinary teaching and lecturing and budgetary management for the psychological services budget and cost centres.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
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Knowledge
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skills
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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
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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
- Job Description and Personal Specification (PDF, 728.3KB)
- Welcoming Disabled Candidates (PDF, 371.7KB)
- Candidate Information (PDF, 736.7KB)