Psychological Professions Lead

Psychological Professions Lead - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services - North Yorkshire, York and Selby Care Group

The Psychological Professions Lead role has two primary related roles: the professional leadership and development of the Psychological Professions workforce and contribution to multidisciplinary collective leadership at the service management level. With the premise that decision making is devolved, and that leadership is there to cultivate the talents of those within the Care Group, to optimise the quality of care and to ensure that the strategy of the Trust is delivered.

They will be responsible for supporting the Associate Director of Therapies and General Manager with the delivery of the trust strategy and the business plan, supporting service transformation and service delivery to achieve quality standards and embedding co-production with service users and carers., As part of the collective leadership team at the service management level the Psychological Professions Lead, will provide leadership and oversight of the Psychological Professions Bands 4 - 8c within the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services within the North Yorkshire, York and Selby Care Group. This pivotal role offers specialist psychological leadership across the framework of the i-Thrive model. It is expected that the leadership component will comprise 3 days per week of this role.

They will lead and contribute to CAMHS care group and trustwide service transformation, working with the collective leadership team, Clinical Networks and corporate colleagues to embed key aspects of the transformation agenda, the Long Term Plan and partnership priorities and represent the professions on strategic groups as appropriate.

The Psychological Professions Lead will be accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to children and young people and will offer 1 day per week clinical work into a clinical service. This is negotiated based on the skills of the successful candidate and the service need.

We are a compassionate employer with the wellbeing of employees being central to our value based workforce development model. We encourage applications from all individuals who believe that they meet the criteria outlined in the job description and person specification.