Acute Care and Community Rehabilitation Psychological Services Lead

A Vacancy at Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust.

Acute Care and Community Rehabilitation Team Psychological Services Lead

Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist (w. core MH qualification)

Band 8b - Full time

The North London Mental Health Partnership Haringey Division is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Systemic Family Therapist (with a core mental health qualification) to lead on the strategic development of the psychology service provision within ourHaringey Urgent Care Services(wards and home treatment) and ourCommunity Rehabilitation Team.

This post provides excellent management and leadership opportunities through the coordination of the urgent care psychology team. The post also provides service development opportunities and close and collaborative working with MDT colleagues in the community rehabilitation team.

This post and the teams are well-established with exciting initiatives implemented in the last few years. The post is based at St Ann's Hospital in South Tottenham and is supported by a growing and innovative psychology workforce. One of our initiatives is to promote trauma-informed services, as well as increased access to specialist trauma therapies. A benefit of the post will be to receive training and on-going supervision in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

The post holder:

· Carries responsibility for ensuring systematic provision of a high quality psychological therapies service across:

o Community Rehabilitation Team

o Blossom Court in-patient wards

o Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams

· Provides clinical and professional leadership and management, with responsibility for service developments across all teams within the service:

· Provides management, consultation and supervision to psychological therapists within the service, ensuring the highest standards of delivery of psychological therapies and psychologically informed clinical practice across all disciplines;

· Holds responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest performance of the team with responsibility for systematic governance of psychological practice within the service and implementation of the Trust clinical governance agenda, ensuring that professional standards are met and that appropriate continuing professional development is in place. To delegate these responsibilities where appropriate.

· Carries a specialist caseload of clients.

· Responsible for monitoring team's performance, ensuring outcome measurement, audit, and surveys of service user and carer satisfaction are conducted.

The partnership between Barnet,Enfieldand Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originallyestablishedin 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order tomeet the needs of the new Partnership services you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall underBarnet,Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to continue the development of Trauma Informed Practice within the psychological provision in these services. The post holder will lead on this initiative with support from senior divisional staff including the Haringey adult psychology lead. You will be based at St. Ann's Hospital where the inpatient wards are accommodated in Blossom Court, a recently built state of the art mental health unit with an adjacent day therapy centre.

The opening of Blossom Court created an opportunity to rethink the clinical model of care of the Urgent Care Service alongside the remodelling of the physical environment. The new clinical model, created following a series of workshops with service users and carers, aims to develop a service with a more systemic and trauma informed approach. Along with senior Urgent Care staff you will be central to the continued development of this model with Trauma Informed Practice at its core. We are proud of the progress we have made in Urgent Care and are keen to maintain and further these accomplishments. Urgent Care Psychology in Haringey benefits from strong relationships with the urgent care pathways across our partnership. The Urgent Care Psychology post provides an excellent opportunity to develop leadership and management skills in the coordination of the established team of psychological therapists in the department.

Haringey community services have recently benefitted from the transformation agenda of the NHS Long Term Plan for mental health. This has meant more substantive collaboration and integration between our services and local community organisations with increased funding for posts across both sectors. Trauma Informed Practice is again core to these developments, and you will work with senior staff in the Community Rehabilitation Team to develop and support trauma informed care programmes within the team provision.

This is a great opportunity for the right individual to develop clinical, strategic and managerial leadership skills, and in particular to shape the way in which psychological and psychotherapeutic approaches can be applied within the Urgent Care and Community Rehabilitation settings to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of what is offered.

We would also welcome applicants with the enthusiasm and training needed but whose level of experience may not quite be at the level required for this leadership post. For the right candidate we would consider a developmental appointment in which they work into the full banding over a set period of time and with appropriate support and training from our senior psychology and psychotherapy staff. We are also happy to discuss potential job shares and flexible working arrangements.