Highly Specialised Therapist, Clinical / Counselling / Health Psychologist

The patient experience is at the centre of everything we do and this post represents our next phase of our service strategy - the development of an integrated long term conditions (LTC) pathway. The Talking Therapy services will offer the local population a LTC service, focussing on the highly prevalent LTCs, which are Cancer, COPD, Asthma and Diabetes. The prevalence of these LTCs are slightly higher than the England baseline and therefore a priority for the service and the local Integrated Care System. The local services are already primed to start this work, and require a highly motivated, clinically credible senior clinician to lead this area of service delivery. There are already developed partnerships in areas and the post holder will need to link into the local ICS "Joint Forward Plan". A proportion of the workforce have been trained through the Health Education England long term conditions top up training and you will work with managers to develop a workforce
strategy to release these skills, in line with service growth. As a senior clinician, you will join our senior leadership team and provide clinical leadership focussing on quality and clinical development to deliver a LTC strategy, a clinical pathway and then act as a senior clinician whose portfolio will also include leadership within this area. You will join 3 other 8a senior clinical posts who have portfolios in CBT, PWP and relational therapy., Working under the direction of the clinical lead:
1. Provide clinical leadership for Long Term Conditions, providing associated consultation, training and clinical supervision to other team members.
2. Provide evidence based psychological therapy within your specified modality to a more complex clinical population, that cannot be met in a standard TTAD (IAPT) pathway, but still meet the 'top end' criteria for NHS Talking Therapies.
3. Lead on developing integrated clinical pathways, to ensure place-based therapy delivery
4. To provide clinical leadership to the service and operate within the senior leadership team
5. Ensure services meet the national competency frameworks, ensuring workforce compliance with NICE approved therapies and relevant psychological therapy / supervision competency frameworks (e.g Roth & Pilling).
6. With the clinical lead, provide a quality feedback framework, by inputting to incident report reviews, critical incidents and serious incident reports, providing feedback and supporting staff, whilst assisting in identifying themes for improvements.
7. Contribute to the implementation of specialist area pathways and provide ongoing monitoring.
8. Engage in research activity within the services, providing a point of contact and a conduit to research colleagues.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
9. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
10. To provide supportive clinical leadership to engage and support the workforce in providing effective therapies that engage with individual formulations and treatment goals.
11. Providing a specific area of expertise to case discussions and promoting psychological thinking within multiagency meetings and conversations.
12. Lead on "Making every contact count", to aid the promotion of healthy lifestyles and reducing health inequalities for clients who use the service.
13. Deputise for the clinical lead, when required and on a rotational basis.
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for more details

Welcome! The Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin NHS Talking Therapies (IAPT) services are busy caring teams consisting of Administration staff, PWPs, CBT Practitioners, and Counsellors. We serve the people of Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin which has exciting, diverse and growing modern towns, surrounded by the stunning Shropshire countryside.
Our NHS Talking Therapies teams are great places to work. We are surrounded by supportive leaders and managers. Staff are encouraged to contribute to the service vision and set the culture.
Don't take our word for it, new starters have all said what a great place this is to work and develop.
"I have worked for the NHS for 30 years and had been looking for a new NHS 'home' as well a fresh challenge. At Midlands Partnership, I have found this. The Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin care group is one of the friendliest and supportive places I have worked in the last 20 years. I am astounded by the can do attitude and the open door culture. I am enjoying getting up for work every day, as everyone wants the best outcome for patients"
Clinical Lead, STW IAPT Services
Are you ready for a new challenge? We would like you to join us, to become part of our supportive and innovative IAPT Services. If this is the challenge for you and you meet the qualities and qualifications required, we would love to hear from you.

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
+ Supporting your career development and progression
+ Excellent NHS Pension scheme
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
+ Options for flexible working
+ Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
+ Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
+ If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
+ Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
+ Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
+ Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
+ Free car parking at all trust sites
+ Free flu vaccinations every year
+ Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications