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Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant experience (usually 3years + will be considered) of working in IAPT service as a senior clinician and manager, including performance and case management.
- Experience
Experience in primary care, liaising with GPs and community providers
- Experience
Experience of service development and of embedding new organisational models, services and pathways.
- Experience
Experience in referral processes that support the assessment of clients and patients, and, to plan and coordinate the capacity provided by psychological therapists and clinicians for assessment across therapy modalities.
- Experience
Work as an experienced psychologist/psychotherapist with advanced skills in at least one psychological therapy modality.
- Experience
Experience of managing and supervising workforce from different backgrounds.
- Experience
Excellence and experience in the continuous improvement of high intensity interventions and coordinating the services of a range of practitioners and providers, with experience of delivering this within primary care and an IAPT compliant service .
- Experience
Experience of providing an autonomous clinical service to a diverse population.
- Knowledge & Skills
Communication & Relationship skills: Excellent reporting and presentation skills. Able to provide & receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in a highly emotive and sometimes hostile atmosphere, in a range of relationships and settings.
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to use highly specialist skills of empathy to overcome barriers to understanding and acceptance
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to build good working relationships with other professionals.
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to liaise effectively at all levels of an organisation
- Knowledge & Skills
Clinical, Analytical & Judgement skills: Specific experience in working with health-related psychological issues, e.g. long-standing and chronic conditions
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to draw upon a broad theoretical knowledge base in the analysis of highly complex facts or situations to arrive at appropriate formulations.
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to compare and select from a range of treatment options, based on formulation.
- Knowledge & Skills
Able to provide both brief and longer-term therapeutic interventions.
- Training/Qualifications
Postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and registered with HPC. OR Psychological Therapist with a core mental health training e.g. nursing, social work
- Training/Qualifications
Above plus : Post-graduate qualification in a HI therapeutic modality.
- Training/Qualifications
Qualified to at least practitioner level in EMDR and willingness to undertake training/supervision up to consultant level
- Training/Qualifications
Supervisor training to undertake clinical supervision of trainees and qualified staff in a model relevant to Talking Therapies.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Newham Talking Therapies (NTT), Centre for Clinical Excellence is looking to recruit a part-time (4 days/0.80 WTE) Deputy Clinical lead to join a busy and high performing and creative team. We are part of East London NHS Foundation Trust which has been rated “Outstanding” for the second year by Care Quality Commission (CQC) and are committed to ensuring a healthy work life balance and a positive working environment.
NTT is an exceptional talking therapies service with excellent development opportunities. We are committed to the progression of our team members and our posts are formulated to allow for development of clinical expertise in chosen clinical areas. As well as offering a range of therapies, the service also runs as a training centre, therefore offering opportunities for supervision and training.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be one of the three Deputy Clinical Leads. All Deputies share the majority of core service, strategic and staff management tasks but each will lead on different clinical and service areas. This post will provide clinical, strategic and performance leadership for all High Intensity modalities, i.e. CBT, relational therapies and Long-term Health Conditions. The post-holder will also perform responsibilities delegated by the Clinical Lead as appropriate for this level of seniority.
Under the directions of the Clinical Lead, the post holder will work closely and jointly with the counterpart Deputy Clinical Leads to maintain and further develop the full integration of the service (i.e. staff and performance management, interventions across steps, modalities and clinical specialist areas).
Through direct management of Managers (8As), the Deputy Clinical Leads will ensure the services vision, NTT business model, clinical quality, productivity and KPIs are consistently and systematically delivered. Due to rapid and constant changes in IAPT services targets and landscape, the two Deputies are required to work jointly to manage throughput, capacity and a quick turnaround of sound strategies to ensure the delivery of the services KPIs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Due to the size of the service, the Deputies are expected to manage an equal share of Managers (8As) well as pan-service leadership and development tasks. As guided by the services strategies, the Deputy Leads will collaborate with one another to develop and deliver seamless interventions across steps, modes (individual, groups, classes, etc.), and specialist clinical areas.
It is crucial that the post-holder possesses adaptive clinical, managerial and strategic abilities to support the Clinical Lead and their strategies for the day-to-day running of the service and future expansion/ service development as guided by wider Health strategies and demands.
Please kindly refer to the attached JD/PS for information or If you have any further questions, please contact Daniela Antonie, Clinical Lead on 0208 175 1770 for an informal discussion.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Deputy Clinical Lead for Newham Talking Therapies with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Lead (legacy management group) role. The advertised salary is £72,719 - £83,505 Salary period yearly. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Oct 2026.
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