Consultant Clinical Psychologist

This post is an opportunity for an experienced and passionate clinical health psychologist to work across two established and effective services to deliver excellent psychological provision for staff and patients and to lead on the strategic development of each service.

The staff support service offers 1-1 and team-based approaches with the opportunity to contribute strategically to whole Trust developments in health and wellbeing. There is expertise in trauma intervention and scope to further develop trauma informed care across settings. There is a commitment to providing compassionate and skilled psychological care to a diverse workforce, including opportunities to work with the equality, diversity and inclusion leads to address discrimination, promote anti-racist practice and develop psychological safety. The post holder would provide leadership to the staff, engage with Trust stakeholders to develop services and co-create the strategic aims for the team.

The women's health pathway includes input to the maternity service, supporting patients presenting with birth trauma, secondary tokophobia and service related distress. We are working within and across services to develop input for neonates and the post holder would lead on further scoping and business cases to support the midwifery and maternity staff team.

Main duties of the job

To take the lead in the Strategic development and systematic provision of high quality, specialised clinical psychology programmes of care and advice to patients and staff working throughout South Warwickshire, covering all physical health specialties with a specific focus on the Staff Support service and Women's Health pathway.

To propose service changes and policy for all clinicians providing psychological care (MDT etc.) in the general patient group.

To provide highly specialist clinical health psychology assessment and therapy across the health economy for patient groups as negotiated with the Director.

To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on patient care to colleagues and carers.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise individual responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the patient groups described.

To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within various patient specialties as negotiated with the Director

To support workforce development by training and supervision.

To be responsible for the allocation of resources, line and operational management of the clinicians working with the general patient care delivery.

To provide highly specialist teaching for the Birmingham, Warwick & Coventry University Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training courses and other training providers.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.