Job overview

Are you passionate about improving and delivering high-quality care? Are you motivated by providing psychological informed care for people experiencing severe mental health problems?

We are recruiting a new Consultant grade lead role for our Complex Psychological Intervention (CPI) service. We want a senior experienced psychological professional who is able to bring a depth and breadth of expert knowledge and skills in working with people with severe mental health problems within multidisciplinary systems and proven ability to provide compassionate, inclusive leadership. 

Our three CPI teams employ a range of psychological professionals integrated into our six community multi-disciplinary Recovery teams. They deliver psychologically informed interventions, and support the development of psychologically informed environments through consultation, supervision and training.

As the service lead you will be responsible for shaping our teams to ensure consistent equitable psychological provision across the county.

You will lead on ensuring we meet our populations’ needs, addressing problems of access, and evaluating outcomes to ensure we provide the very best care we can to the people of Gloucestershire. The post holder will play a key role in developing and implementing the psychological vision for our services for severe mental health problems.

Main duties of the job

To manage the CPI countywide psychology service delivering psychologically informed services across GHC’s core specialist secondary care mental health services. 

To take the lead role in the development of the new developments in relation to Psychological interventions to support the delivery of the ambitions of the Long Term Plan and the Community Mental Health Framework.

To lead and motivate practitioners, trainees and assistants from all professions within the service and across the psychological interventions aspects of other relevant services.

To be responsible for the effective line and professional management/clinical supervision of all psychological professionals employed in the CPI service, ensuring that all psychological practice is effective, safe and well led.

To participate in and provide specialist advice to relevant aspects of policy making, strategic planning, management and clinical governance.

To undertake the role of a specialist clinician, carrying a specialist caseload of highly complex cases, providing advice and consultancy for patients and their significant others, and specialist clinical supervision to professionals.

To work in partnership with Service Users, their significant others, staff Performance Management and Finance staff, corporate services, human resources, VCSE (voluntary, charity and social enterprise) organisations to co-produce the design, development and delivery of services.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.