Director of Health Psychology

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Assessed extensive experience of working as a Consultant Psychologist, including additional extensive post qualification experience within physical health psychology and/or clinical neuropsychology.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including inpatient, outpatient, community, primary care, residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, specially around health psychology, and working within the context of a multidisciplinary team.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.

• Experience

  Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions, in particular around health psychology.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists.

• Experience

  Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations, in particular in the field of health psychology.

• Experience

  Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services.

• Experience

  Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of representing the profession in policy and practice fora.

• Experience

  In depth understanding of trauma informed principles and care.

• Experience

  Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

• Experience

  Knowledge and experience of working with other relevant client groups within physical health and clinical neuropsychology.

• Experience

  Extensive experience working with other client groups who have highly complex psychological problems.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of working within a multicultural framework.

• Experience

  Extensive experience of operationally and/or professionally managing other Psychologists and Psychological Professionals.

• Qualifications

  Doctoral-level qualification in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology (e.g., Clinical, Counselling, Occupational).

• Qualifications

  Registration as an HCPC regulated Practitioner Psychologist.

• Qualifications

  Additional leadership and/or management training.

• Additional Criteria

  Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

• Additional Criteria

  Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex / sensitive information effectively requiring empathy and reassurance in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potential threatening information whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times.

• Additional Criteria

  High level ability to communicate effectively at both a 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.

• Additional Criteria

  Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other multi-disciplinary professional and non-professional groups.

• Additional Criteria

  Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialty issues. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.

• Additional Criteria

  Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management.

• Additional Criteria

  Ability to design and implement policy for services and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity.

• Additional Criteria

  Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a long term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty.

• Additional Criteria

  Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

• Additional Criteria

  Extensive experience in the supervision and line management of other Psychologists, Psychological Professionals and other disciplines.

• Additional Criteria

  Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex or difficult to treat groups.

• Additional Criteria

  Deep understanding of NHS strategy, regulation, workforce challenges, and policy context.

• Additional Criteria

  Strategic thinking with the ability to translate psychological insight into organisational action

• Additional Criteria

  Excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills.

• Additional Criteria

  Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the psychological professions based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.

• Additional Criteria

  Demonstrable commitment to supporting and promoting the needs of a diverse population.

• Additional Criteria

  Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies in the field of health psychology

• Additional Criteria

  Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of complex work procedures and clinical practices such as organisational development, mediation, coaching & mentoring, continuous improvement, change management etc.