Director of Health PsychologyNHS

Job summary

This role is to help provide leadership and oversight for physical health psychological services across the Specialist Community Division and wider Trust. The postholder will provide professional line management supervision and clinical oversight for psychology service leads within the Specialist Community Division and work closely with Divisions triumvirate and senior leadership team to ensure psychological thinking and trauma informed principles and practice are embedded across the Division. They will ensure psychological profession have a voice and representation at the most senior level within the Division. They will work with CPPO and Divisions leadership to help develop psychological provision and psychological informed thinking across the Division and wider Trust physical health services.

The role will also have a Trust wide capacity to help develop clinical innovations, effectiveness and research across health psychology within the Trust. A key part of this role is to develop trauma informed principles across physical health services. They will work closely with Trust transformation programmes to help with Trust strategic objectives. The role will be evenly split between the Division and Trust wide responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

Monitoring the on-going and cumulative effect on staff working in highly emotionally charged environments; and developing effective systems of support, including, as appropriate, psychologically informed de-briefing processes that maintain and where possible enhance patient experience and safety; and where necessary developing alternative staff interventions and practices, advocating and delivering them.

Take an active professional lead role in research and evaluation in wide range of areas across psychological provision within the Division.

To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the health service and across the agencies to help develop and improve services to patients and their families. To be oversee development of research within the defined service area and relevant Psychological Therapies Service.

To keep up to date with research developments in therapies, which are relevant to psychological and mental health services under professional leadership, and to follow evidence-based practice and a reflective scientist-practitioner approach as is central to the Psychological Therapists role.

Job description

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence