Job summary
- Main area
- Psychological Professions
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- 7 months (end date for fixed term contract is 31-march-2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 346-CORP-060-25-A
- Employer
- Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NENC ICB
- Town
- Durham
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychological Profession Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
We are looking for a Psychology Profession with a passion and drive for making a real difference in this Regional Workforce Lead Role.
We are recruiting a Regional Psychological Professions Workforce Lead Fixed term - 7 months (part time 4 sessions 15 hours a week) to work alongside the Chief Psychological Professions Officers/ Heads of Psychological Professions and the NENC ICB (Transformation Programme). The post will be hosted within TEWV as employer.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and senior clinician who has a passion to make a lasting difference across voluntary, care and health sectors as this time of significant change. We are looking for someone with the experience and expertise in clinical leadership with the knowledge and skills to challenge in an approachable and personable way.
We are looking for someone who can take a creative approach to considering potential areas for development of the Psychological Professions Workforce within the NENC region. The postholder will be pivotal to the provision and delivery of well led, high quality, safe and effective care for people who use and work work across the ICB system.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the Head of Programme Transformation at the ICB and with Psychological Professions Leads across the region, and a wide range of stakeholders you will develop strategic influence for the Psychological Professions. There is a national drive to increase access to Psychological approaches to health and care and the successful candidate will be able to shape and build how this looks.
Working for our organisation
Although hosted by TEWV, the post is with the NENC ICB and therefore the role will be jointly managed through the organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The specific workplan for the postholder will be agreed when in post with the current stakeholders and in response to the changing organisational landscape. However, the focus for the post will be in line with the NHS plans and the 5 strategic priorities for the Psychological Professions workforce.
Additional contact details :-
Dr Lynne Howey
Chief Psychological Professions Officer (TEWV); Chair of the NENC regional Psychological Professions ERG for HEI leads, Heads of Psychological Professions/ CPPOs
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- For Applied Psychologists: Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent)in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainee psychologists
- Trained in coordinating complex packages of care and assessing and managing risk
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- For Psychological Therapists: RMN/RNLD, AHP or Social work core qualification
- Masters Qualification AND Registration with a professional regulatory body (HCPC, GMC, NMC or Social Work England). (If a different regulatory body please seek advice from Head of Psychological Professions)
- AND For Psychological therapists: a qualification that provides eligibility for accreditation in one of the four Governed Psychological Therapies detailed in the table below*
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have substantial experience of: Working as a qualified highly specialist applied psychologist or psychological therapist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
- Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as lead professional within a multidisciplinary team.
- Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
- Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
- Undertaking and supervising research and service development projects
- Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives.
- Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the psychological professions.
- Managing multi-agency service delivery models.
- Must have experience of: Working at a strategic level
- Quality Assurance and Governance issues.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of: Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment and risk management
- Clinical governance
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice.
- Audit and research methodology
- Social Inclusion agenda
- Highly developed knowledge of: The care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Provide effective clinical leadership to teams across the service based in multiple sites across the locality and demonstrate operating at a strong level acrossthe following 5 dimensions of the Healthcare Leadership Model: • Leading with care • Inspiring a shared purpose • Engaging the team • Holding to account • Evaluating information
- And operating at a proficient level (to be strong within 12 months in post) across the following 4 dimensions of the HLM: • Sharing the vision • Developing capability • Influencing for results • Connecting our service
- Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
- Provide consultation to other professionals and non professional groups
- Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Erin Harvey
- Job title
- Head of Programme Transformation NENC ICB
- Email address
- [email protected]
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