Consultant Practitioner Psychologist

The Armed Forces Covenant 2011 commits the NHS to a number of actions to support veterans. By signing the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC) organisations demonstrates the intention to support the Armed Forces community

The Postholder Will

Contribute to the Trust wide strategy for Psychological Therapies, working closely with the adult pathway lead, Specialist Directorate Psychological Therapies Network Lead and the senior psychosocial therapies leadership team to provide high quality safe and effective care for our clients.

Promote collaborative working between all key stakeholders including client groups, the broader MDT, which would include local and national partners.

Represent MVS in the strategic psychological therapy structure trust wide including the psychotherapeutic committee.

Significantly contribute to identifying unmet need and contributing to the development of new business proposals aligned to MVS.

Support the trust to retain its position as an organisation that provides some of the highest standards, and most respected military veteran mental health and psychological care available in the UK.

As part of the collaborative MVS leadership team contribute to strategic Development & Business Planning for Pennine Care’s veterans services.

Be responsible for developing, reviewing and refining the service pathways for Veterans, families/carers and reservists (non-mobilised) for both MVS/ and contribution to joint service joint pathways with key stakeholders and collaborative partners

Take overall clinical responsibility for the development and implementation of the clinical care pathway through the MVS.

Take overall clinical responsibility for the advice, consultation, training and guidance to the staff in the MVS/ Ensure that therapists and other staff within the MVS have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and supporting the treatment of clients via expert clinical consultation and supervision systems.

To be responsible for planning, implementing and monitoring a range of highly individualistic and complex psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This occurs within and across teams, is employed individually and in synthesis. Psychological formulations are adjusted and refined by drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To provide clinical supervision to practitioners from the MVS/ and, to external individuals and teams, within a structured supervision framework.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rachel Buckley Job title: Service Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0300 323 0707