Kooth plc is hiring a
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Remote - United Kingdom

Summary

The job is for a Senior Clinical Psychologist at Kooth, a digital mental health platform. The role involves managing a team, providing psychological advice, leading clinical governance, analytics, reporting, and insights, stakeholder management, safeguarding, training and development, and more. The position offers competitive salary, generous annual leave, professional development opportunities, financial security, health and well-being benefits, life assurance, flexible working, lifestyle benefits, and is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) with significant post qualification experience in at least one clinical area of specialism
• Professional registration with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• DBS certificate
• Leadership/management experience
• Knowledge of relevant legislation
• Strong communication skills

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Clinical Governance in leading a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, counsellors and non clinically qualified staff and the functions that sit within the team
• Ensure that clinical activity is underpinned by the needs of all service users as defined by the i-RESPOND clinical operating model, and supporting the continued improvement of the model’s application
• Provide highly specialist psychological advice and consultation to all colleagues within the clinical and service delivery teams specifically and also across the wider organisation as required
• Work closely with the senior leadership teams with Service Delivery and Product to ensure that clinical innovation is always balanced against safety and clinical effectiveness
• Lead by example in creating a ‘no blame’ culture and a psychologically safe environment for all employees
• Deputise where necessary for the Head of Clinical Governance
• Act as the clinical lead for our integrated digital pathway, including: continued development of the clinical model; stakeholder liaison and engagement; support to the delivery staff; oversight of outcomes
• Support the monthly reporting of the clinical governance team activity, by collating feedback and data from a number of different systems and interpreting this data to articulate the reasons for trends or changes and identifying alternative approaches as indicated
• Ensure that the clinical governance framework is well understood within the Service Delivery team and lead on embedding this through direct activity as well as through designated responsibility for other senior members of the team
• Oversee the clinical audit process, making sure that this is reviewed regularly and updated as per feedback and data, and being the first point of escalation for any concerns
• Provide and receive clinical supervision and play an active role in ensuring the function of supervision and clinical support is fit for purpose across the wider organisation
• Work closely with the research team to support research activity within the organisation; this may involve leading on certain aspects of research or the direct supervision of staff carrying out research projects as appropriate
• Provide a responsive clinical advisory service to all delivery staff and Senior Practitioners via the clinical request/safeguarding log and relevant emails; taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning current, historical and developmental processes, and being accountable for any actions/advice given
• Lead on and support the implementation of specialist clinical models and therapeutic approaches within the Service Delivery teams
• Highlight any performance issues that may arise from the clinical audit and advise Senior Practitioners/managers regarding recommendations for further development/review and support this process as required
• Be a clinical expert and ‘voice of Kooth’ by responding to media requests, delivering presentations and supporting colleagues within the commercial team at key stakeholder meetings
• Work closely with the Kooth marketing team to ensure that external messaging is clinically appropriate and in line with our guidelines
• Contribute to complex communications with different stakeholders, both internally and externally, at a range of levels
• Support our safeguarding processes including the user safety incident framework
• Work as part of a team offering out of hours support to staff working online on a rota based system (dependent on experience); including enabling and supporting senior Practitioners and Shift Leads to manage risk in line with safeguarding best practice
• Co-facilitate multidisciplinary discussions regarding complex presentations

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous annual leave
• Yearly professional training programmes, tailored to your career aspirations and designed to enhance your skills and knowledge
• Pension contributions
• Annual company share option awards, giving you a stake in the success of the company
• Comprehensive Health Shield cover
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering 24/7 telephone mental health support and access to GP consultations
• Life assurance, providing up to four times your annual salary to your loved ones in the unfortunate event of your passing
• Flexible working
• Lifestyle benefits