Job Description

Job id: 073729. Salary: \xc2\xa375,387 - \xc2\xa388,715 per annum, including \xc2\xa32162 of London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 25 August 2023. Closing date: 10 September 2023.

Business unit: IoPPN. Department: Psychology.

Contact details: Professor Katharine Rimes. Katharine.Rimes@kcl.ac.uk

Location: Denmark Hill. Category: Research.

Job description

The DClinPsy Lead for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is a leadership role on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN). The post-holder will provide leadership and day-to-day oversight of the cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) pathway linked to accreditation by the British Association of Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). The programme is accredited for all trainees at BABCP Level 1 and for a subset of trainees on the CBT pathway for Level 2.

The post-holder will work closely with other members of the programme team to ensure that the programme maintains its current excellent standards of governance, teaching, and clinical training. They will make a key contribution to the quality assurance and accreditation processes for the programme. They will report to the DClinPsy Programme Director. They manage a CBT academic tutor and contribute to supervision of the Senior Programme Officer who works on the BABCP pathway.

The IoPPN is a Faculty of King\'s College London and the largest academic community in Europe devoted to the study and prevention of mental illness and brain disease.

The IoPPN\'s clinical psychology training programme takes CBT as its main therapeutic modality, and family therapy/systemic practice as the second key modality. An important strength is the very comprehensive range of both local and national specialist placement opportunities, across three world-renowned NHS Trusts: South London and Maudsley, King\'s College Hospital and Guy\'s & St Thomas\' - known collectively as King\'s Health Partners. The programme, in partnership with King\'s Health Partners NHS Trusts, aims to train clinical psychologists who embody the scientist-practitioner ideal and who can go on to become effective NHS leaders. Another strength is the vibrant and diverse communities within South East London, and the programme values and positively promotes diversity and inclusion.

At King\'s we are deeply committed to embedding good culture, equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study. We welcome applications from psychologists with characteristics who are under-represented within the University and local NHS Trusts at senior levels, including those from a racial/ethnic minority background, who have a disability, and/or LGBTQ+.

Link to IoPPN programme descriptions:

Link to programme webpage

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 3 years.

This is a part-time post - 40% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

• Overseeing and ensuring the effective implementation of the BABCP Level 1 and Level 2 Pathways.
• Overseeing and ensuring the ongoing programme accreditation requirements for BABCP.
• Chairing regular BABCP pathway meetings with relevant DClinPsy team members.
• Managing and providing supervision for the BABCP tutor. Contributing to supervision of the DClinPsy Senior Programme Officer regarding administration of the BABCP pathway.
• Attending relevant DClinPsy meetings such as core team meetings, Training Programme Committee and sub-committee meetings and Exam Board.
• Liaison with external relevant stakeholders regarding the BABCP pathway.
• Overseeing the assessment of CBT competencies and the related governance.
• Liaising with the DClinPsy Academic Director regarding the assessment of CBT knowledge and competences in the exams. Contributing to marking of exams as needed.
• Liaising with the DClinPsy Academic Director to help ensure that the taught components continue to meet BABCP accreditation requirements.
• Contributing to CBT teaching co-ordination if required.
• Contributing to face-to-face DClinPsy teaching.
• Liaising with Clinical Directors, Senior CBT clinical tutor and CBT clinical tutor to ensure trainees on CBT Level 2 pathway gain appropriate CBT experience on placement.
• Overseeing and ensuring an effective system for tracking of trainees\' CBT experience for BABCP accreditation Level 1 and 2 and liaising with clinical team for planning and coordination in this area.
• Contributing to supervision of the BABCP clinical tutors in relation to their tracking of CBT clinical placement experience of trainees.
• Contributing to the CBT supervision of DClinPsy trainees on the BABCP pathway if needed.
• Contributing to strategy and processes for trainee allocation to the secondary accreditation pathways.
• Providing support for supervisors and lecturers to gain their own BABCP accreditation, including liaison with Top Up training provided externally. This may include providing CBT supervision.
• Keeping up to date with BABCP accreditation requirements
• Attending external meetings as required, for example in relation to BABCP or the Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

1. Doctoral level professional qualification in Clinical Psychology (e.g. DClinPsy) or equivalent.

2. Registered as Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

3. Accreditation as a cognitive behaviour therapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).

4. Knowledge of the BABCP accreditation requirements for individuals and training programmes.

5. Experience of teaching on a UK DClinPsy programme or other UK psychological professional training programme involving CBT training.

6. Experience of supervising clinical psychology trainees on clinical placements.

7. Significant clinical experience working as a clinical psychologist in the NHS in the UK and providing cognitive behaviour therapy in the NHS.

8. Strong commitment to supporting equality, diversity and inclusion.

9. Skills and experience in leadership, project management and strategy implementation.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of working on a DClinPsy training programme or other professional training programme in the UK involving CBT training.

2. Experience of undertaking assessments for therapists seeking accreditation with the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.

3. Undertaking and publishing research relevant to clinical psychology, in peer-reviewed journals.

Further information

Interviews will be on 21 September 2023

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