Highly Specialised Therapist, Clinical/Counselling/Health Psychologist

at  Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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 detail

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