Job overview

Westminster is an exciting, unique IAPT location and we are looking for a skilled, talented and compassionate individual to take the service forward in all aspects. With increasing access and service expansion since 2021/22, the Westminster Talking Therapies IAPT Service is looking for an 8B Senior Deputy Clinical Lead role with responsibility for Operational management and the delivery of key targets.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone with extensive experience of IAPT in a management capacity, have excellent clinical skills, be an accredited and IAPT compliant High Intensity therapist and have substantial supervisory experience. You will be familiar with IAPT requirements and have experience of using data to manage delivery of all key targets. 

You will also have experience of developing a substantial service provision including managing, service development and evaluation and providing expertise through teaching and supervising within this provision. You will have a track record of excellent collaborative working, staff development and good relationships with colleagues across mental health services, as well as experience of working within the wider borough mental health developments.

Working for our organisation

There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. 
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Contribute to formulating long-term strategic plans for the development and delivery of the service.
2. Contribute to service policy and service development.
3. Implement agreed policy and practices for the assessment and treatment of clients and ensure that all clinicians adhere to these in their clinical practice.
4. Identify and implement potential changes to work practices and procedures in the service.
5. Deputise for the Clinical lead in her/his absence, at key stakeholder events, Strategic meetings and forums.

Clinical: 
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the CNWL Talking Therapies Westminster Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. 
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or 
management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions, employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses. 
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
6. To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health disorders. 
7. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan. 
8. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group. 
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
10. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of the care.
11. To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the CNWL Talking Therapies Westminster Service, where appropriate. 
12. To assist in the coordination and management of Treatment Waiting Lists. 

Vaccination

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.