Strategic Lead for Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to help us achieve our purpose at Barnardo's: Changing Childhoods, Changing Lives.

Barnardo's has a new 3 year corporate strategy, which identifies the need to support children and young people struggling with their mental health and wellbeing and the Health, Quality and Inclusion Team are integral to ensuring the success of this strategy.

This is an extremely exciting time to join Barnardo's and the Health, Quality and Inclusion team. We are an ambitious and dynamic team, enabling Barnardo's to become a leading integrated Health and Social Care charity.

We know that supporting babies, children, and young people with their mental health is more important now than ever before. We are looking for a dynamic and creative Strategic Lead for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy to help drive improvements in mental health and wellbeing across the country.

As the Strategic Lead for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, you will ensure the systematic provision of high-quality mental health support for babies, children, young people and their families. You'll also support the development of psychological and psychotherapy services through designing effective new services and delivering service change and improvement across care groups, specialisms and care settings. This will include supporting and informing the strategic development of models of good practice in Barnardo's.

You will need to be a driven and collaborative team player who has proven ability to support and influence at an organisational level and will have experience working within or alongside a range of health sectors and with a variety of health stakeholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of one of the UK's leading children's charities, working hard to reduce health inequalities and help more children to feel safer, happier, healthier, and more hopeful.

In addition, you will be required to:

• Support the development of high-quality psychological practice for Children and Young People (CYP)

• Develop and maintain strategies and structures which ensure the highest standards of care, clinical practice and inter-agency working for mental health support across Barnardo's

• Identify opportunities to achieve economies of scale and efficiencies

• Work collaboratively to embed a culture of outcomes-based practice, review clinical outcomes of service delivery, and identify changes in practice to improve outcomes

• Work autonomously and collaboratively within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for governance of psychological practice within Barnardo's

• Propose and implement policy and service development changes within the organisation in respect of psychological and psychotherapy services

• Provide expertise and support to create, develop, deliver, and evaluate a suite of recognisable core service models focused primarily on mental health and wellbeing, including a range of therapeutic programmes of tiered support.

• Support evaluation of existing and new pilot models of integrated health and social care and identify and help to create new models within the health marketplace

• Support the digital transformation and web presence across all existing and new pilot sites including engagement and adoption, training, and evaluation of the suite of digital tools

• Input into major contract bid opportunities for mental health contracts/opportunities

You'll have:

Education/Knowledge

• Current HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist

• Qualification in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society

• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of psychological practitioners

Skills/Experience

• Working as a registered Clinical Psychologist, for a minimum of 5 years and specialising at a senior level in a clinical field relevant for the post

• Professional leadership or management of registered and pre-registered clinical psychologists and able to demonstrate examples of positive impact within service delivery

• Working in specialist mental health provision for children and young people, including multi-disciplinary working

Salary shown is a salary range, the starting salary can be negotiated for exceptional candidates.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the role described.