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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
Access to Continued Professional Development
Involvement in improvement and research activities
Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

The Oldham Psychological Medicine team consists of an MDT team of mental health practitioners, psychiatrists, physiotherapist, and psychological therapists. The team work alongside a range of acute, community and GP services, offering consultation with professionals as well as assessment and intervention for patients.

The patient group may have complex needs due to comorbidity of physical and mental health, and where physical health conditions may lack clarity around cause. Many of the patients may also have complex interpersonal difficulties or heightened risk due to the distress caused by their symptoms.

This role will provide management of the service and team, working alongside the Principal Psychologist and Medical Lead. Candidates for the post should have a background in forming good partnerships in care, managing staff, and building a safe environment for team working. They will have a solid background in mental health, with an understanding of positive risk management, and able to hold this framework for the team in providing a high quality and safely led service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the day to day running of the service and operational leadership. Given the nature of the patient group, this will include building strong partnerships with local healthcare services, as well as making links into colleagues in neighbouring mental health teams.

Working closely with clinical and medical leads, they will ensure governance of service delivery for this complex patient group. They will additionally link with the borough director, Strategic and Operational Lead for Psychological Medicine and senior colleagues to ensure that the team forms a part of the Oldham Living Well wider provision.

As a representative of the service, the post holder will be a source of expertise and advocacy to enable other services to better understand the needs of people with long term health conditions or atypical healthcare utilisers. This will include linking with commissioners and trust leads to report on the benefits to patient care, recognising where partnerships may help to improve the lives of patients and developing pathways to improve the patient journey.

Working for our organisation

Psychological Medicine supports patients with long term health conditions and persistent symptoms and also supports people with atypical healthcare utilisation. Patients require interdisciplinary care and have complex mental health presentations as well as physical comorbidities. Psychological Medicine Services in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust span the 5 boroughs. Teams work as an MDT and liaise with and work alongside a range of physical healthcare services including GPs, community and acute care. Services come together as a Network to offer mutual support, and share expertise.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To take responsibility for the operational management and leadership of the Psychological Medicine Service (including both the Oldham Psychological Medicine Service and the integrated pain service)

To provide leadership that ensures local service development and service delivery in designated areas of responsibility reflects national policy, locally agreed ICB, GM and Trust priorities as well as accepted best practice

To act as a source of expertise in relation to the governance and care of adults with comorbid persistent physical symptoms and psychological distress as well as people who are atypical healthcare utilisers, working closely with the Psychology Clinical Lead and Medical Lead to maintain awareness of developing knowledge in this area.

Work with the Long Term Conditions Strategic and Operational Lead and where required, the Associate Director of the borough to deliver performance standards and report on monitoring process for operational services.

To lead and assist in the continuous improvement of services through development and change management

To develop, contribute to the planning, implementation and monitoring of local service plans, ICB plans and directorate level plans

Convey highly contentious information in atmosphere of dynamic change

Develop relationships with internal partners, external partners and GPs, using individual diplomacy as well as presenting to larger audiences.

Negotiate with ICB's and third sector organisations on service level operational issues, change management, service mobilisation plans etc.

Contribute to borough plans appropriate to the development of improved pathways and service interface across mental health and learning disability services.

To be responsible for ensuring that the services within the designated areas of responsibility deliver evidence based, high quality, safe and supportive care to patients.

To be responsible for contributing to care pathways and protocols with referring agencies and commissioners to address policy guidance and standards

To be responsible for the management and control of designated budgets ensuring the effective use of finances and staffing resources

To be responsible for identifying financial pressures, cost improvements and effective use of resources within designated area of responsibility

To ensure that all staff area aware of policies, procedures and protocols and work within their framework at all times

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Specialist professional applied psychological qualification (to degree level) plus post graduate qualification (eg PWP) or Statutory Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker qualification to degree level plus post graduate training.

Desirable criteria

Educated to Masters degree
Management qualification
Understanding of psychological and psychosocial interventions in healthcare

Experience

Essential criteria

Post qualification experience working in mental health care
A demonstrative experience working at a Team Management or Senior Practitioner level
Management & leadership within a mental health team or psychological therapy service at the level of team manager or senior practitioner

Desirable criteria

Experience of managing multidisciplinary practitioners within Mental Health services
Track record of managing services performance
Research development and completion through to publication

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Evidence of relevant continued professional development
Up to date knowledge of current policy, including NICE guidance and evidence-based interventions relating to the care of people with comorbid long term health conditions/persistent physical symptoms and psychological/mental health distress and settings for people of all ages
Knowledge of Primary Health and GP Care and related MH Care pathways
Risk assessment and management
Legal and ethical framework in which mental healthcare is provided

Desirable criteria

Applied psychology knowledge at the standard required for HCPC/NMC
High level of understanding of psychological therapy interventions and/or case management interventions

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Evidence of the ability to lead and implement change initiatives including service and system redesign
Evidence of effective organisation and management skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills
Ability to manage budget resources effectively
Ability to turn strategic vision into practical reality
Ability to prioritise workload, work under pressure, effectively managing stress and achieve objectives within agreed deadlines
Ability to work in and lead partnerships with other statutory and non-statutory partnerships in the delivery of complex services
Ability to deal with highly complex and very sensitive information, both understanding and communicating, in highly political, public and emotive environments
Significant analytical skills to enable the interpretation of complex situations
Ability to facilitate large and small groups Leadership skills
Ability to develop effective relationships with a range of stakeholders in local area

Desirable criteria

Presentation skills
Strategic influencing skills
Expert skills in psychological therapies delivery with people with comorbid physical and mental health difficulties
Skills in clinical supervision, consultancy, training and staff development
Knowledge and ability to use service improvement techniques, e.g. process mapping

Work Related Circumstances

Essential criteria

Highly developed IT skills
Excellent management skills
Demonstrable personal resilience
Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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

Job Description (PDF, 158.0KB)
Person Specification (PDF, 160.4KB)
Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion pack (PDF, 588.9KB)
Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)

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