Associate Network Director of Psychological Therapies

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Skills

  Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.

• Skills

  High level ability to communicate effectively at both written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS

• Skills

  Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non professional groups

• Skills

  High level skills in clinical and professional supervision

• Skills

  Ability to think and plan strategically at a clinical and service level, where interventions may impact on a range of services and individuals and require longer term objectives and planning

• Skills

  Ability to provide teaching, training, advice, consultation and supervision to meet the needs of a wide range of lay and professional people, using a range of formats and materials

• Skills

  Ability to effectively respond to, and cope with, complex client, team and system dynamics and environments, where this may involve high levels of emotional and psychological stress and distress

• Skills

  Ability to articulate and represent psychological therapies services perspectives in a range of clinical and professional fora

• Knowledge

  Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health

• Knowledge

  Awareness of relevant professional guidelines and standards for the provision of psychological services and ability to interpret and implement the same in practice and service delivery

• Experience

  Assessed substantial experience of working as a Clinical Psychologist

• Experience

  Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course, in various settings including outpatient, community, primary care inpatient and residential care settings. Also including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse

• Experience

  Experience of providing a range of complex psychological assessment and interventions using information derived from a variety of sources and requiring highly developed analytic and interpretative skills.

• Experience

  Experience of staff, team and service management

• Experience

  Experience of working within environments involving exposure to significant professional, clinical and ethical challenges.

• Experience

  Experience of effective multi-agency and disciplinary team working and networking.

• Experience

  Experience of clinical and professional management of qualified and pre- qualified clinical psychologists and other psychological therapists

• Experience

  Experience of representing the profession or service in local policy fora

• Experience

  Experience of teaching, training and / or professional and clinical supervision

• Experience

  Experience of strategic service development and evaluation

• Qualifications

  Good honours degree in psychology

• Qualifications

  Eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

• Qualifications

  Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology, (or equivalent for those trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological theories and lifespan development psychology

• Qualifications

  HCPC registered as a practitioner psychologist (clinical)

• Qualifications

  Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice