Head of Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Caring for the health and wellbeing of our people is one of the key themes of our people strategy and a priority for the Trust. We are proud of the

comprehensive, preventative and responsive health and wellbeing programme offered to staff which focuses on 6 pillars of wellbeing: personal, psychological, physical, work, spiritual and financial wellbeing.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service at Lewisham andGreenwich NHS Trust to cover maternity leave.

Interview date 27-Jan-2025 from 1pm

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a dynamic psychologist with experience in providing clinical psychology to staff and one who is dedicated and passionate about making a positive difference to workforce wellness.

The dedicated and reputable Staff Psychology Wellbeing Service offers individual and team/group high quality support, interventions and guidance, in addition to consultation and training to managers. The service has a broader remit of embedding wellbeing across the organisation and raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing.

The post holder will have a core focus on providing service leadership, wellbeing interventions, service development and implementing evidence-based initiatives to meet the psychological needs of the wider staff group across all Trust sites.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The pandemic highlighted the importance of supporting staff wellbeing. In LGT, demand for wellbeing support has increased each year since the pandemic. Research suggests that improved staff psychological wellbeing leads to better workforce retention, improved patient care, enhanced staff engagement and safer, more compassionate services. LGT is committed to creating work environments that prioritise staff wellbeing.

The Trust has a dedicated and reputable Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service. The service offers individual support, team/group interventions and guidance, consultation and training to managers. The service has a broader remit of embedding wellbeing across the organisation and raising awareness about mental health and wellbeing. This involves developing Trustwide wellbeing initiatives and promoting mental health campaigns. The role also involves attendance at both internal and external meetings with key stakeholders.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (eligible for BPS chartered status and HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist).
• Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical Psychologist).
• Recognised supervision training, including in the supervision of trainee clinical psychologists
• Evidence of continuing training in a specialist area of psychological practice through formal post-doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) OR a combination of specialist short courses OR an evidenced portfolio of supervised practice based learning in a specialist area of clinical practice assessed by an experienced clinical supervisor to be of equal level to a postgraduate diploma
• Evidence of continual professional development (CPD)

Desirable criteria

• Undergraduate degree in psychology.
• Post doctoral training in a specific evidence-based therapy, such.as CBT.
• Post doctoral CPD in staff wellbeing.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist post qualification.
• Post qualification experience of psychological assessment and treatment of a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting with a range of mental health problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity and across a range of settings (community, outpatient and inpatient).
• Experience of working in a staff psychological wellbeing service.
• Experience of providing individual and group/team wellbeing interventions to staff.
• Experience of providing teaching and training to other (non-psychology) professional groups.
• Post qualification experience of providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Experience of supervising both qualified psychologists and trainee psychologists.
• Experience of working with diverse staff groups and of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of service evaluation and outcome monitoring.
• Experience of implementing service development and improvement projects.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in an acute hospital setting.
• Experience of leading a service.
• Experience of carrying out post-doctoral research.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Skills in risk assessment and management and acting in a responsive and timely manner when presented with risk and safeguarding issues.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Skills as a senior clinician to undertake clinical leadership roles and tasks within a multidisciplinary context.
• Knowledge and understanding of at least two models of psychological therapy, including CBT.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in the use of complex psychological assessments, interventions and management and their application in specialist settings.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team setting at a high level, hold a leadership role and contribute to effective team functioning.
• Confidence in public speaking and the ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Well-developed IT skills including good knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc), research data entry and analysis and the use of multimedia materials for presentations
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to mental health and areas related to staff wellbeing.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.

Desirable criteria

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in complex/serious mental health problems (e.g. personality disorder, chronic illness, eating disorders).

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• JD (PDF, 424.2KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)