Deputy Clinical Lead - Mental Health *REMOTE*

IPRS Health are an award-winning, APPTS accredited provider of Mental Health Services, putting patients at the heart of everything we do, ensuring a smooth and successful journey to recovery. We work for a diverse range of clients, including the NHS with our services having a huge impact into improving the lives of thousands of people every year.

Originally solely a provider for just physiotherapy, today IPRS Health is regarded as one of the UK’s leading providers of quality corporate absence management services including:

• Physiotherapy
• CBT
• Counselling
• Workplace Services
• Workshops

We take pride in our innovative approach, combining traditional treatments with new innovative methods to improve our patient's experience and results, whilst helping keep costs down for our clients.

IPRS Health has an extensive in-house team of multidisciplinary clinicians which, coupled with our carefully selected and managed national clinical network, can provide a first-class service, throughout the UK.

We are looking for a Deputy Clinical Lead to join our existing team. The successful applicant will hold a clinical caseload providing assessment and treatment to patients experiencing common mental health problems as well as supporting a small team of senior therapists to deliver the service.

The successful applicant will be based in the UK and working fully remotely.

Salary: £55,000 - £58,000 per annum

40 hours per week Monday to Friday

Your success will contribute to the continued growth of the Mental Health service.

We are looking for our new Deputy Clinical Lead to be a team player, communicate effectively with internal and external customers verbally and in writing, time manage to meet agreed deadlines in a demanding environment and to be motivated to contribute to helping thousands each year.

Responsibilities:

• Carry Line management to senior psychological therapists. Senior psychological therapists hold a clinical caseload and manage a small team of psychological therapists.
• Support the Service lead and clinical operations manager to ensure that SLAs are maintained including managing capacity and ensuring that staff utilisation is maintained at 90%.
• Support in recruitment, appointment, and coordination of inductions of new staff.
• Support senior therapists to achieve service KPIs along with ensuring session numbers and staff utilisation are managed.
• Carry out mental health duty cover supporting with general queries, clinical report checks and risk escalation.
• Ensure that audit feedback is disseminated into the senior therapist and improvement plans are implemented where necessary.

To be seriously considered for this role, please have the following:

Qualifications:

• Have a professional qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
• Hold full BABCP accreditation having had their first audit with the BABCP.

Experience:

• Have a minimum of four years CBT experience in both virtual and face-to-face treatment in public or private healthcare.
• Have previous experience of supervision or management of a small team.

Knowledge & Skills:

You will be computer literate with good Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills. Importantly you will be able to work with your team to achieve the best outcomes for your patients. Be able to effectively problem solve and prioritise. Communicate effectively and be able to effectively time manage to meet agreed deadlines in a demanding environment.

Salary: £55,000 - £58,000 per annum

Position: permanent position offering fully REMOTE working - you must be UK based.

Hours: 40 hours per week Monday - Friday

Benefits:

• Flexible Working
• IPRS Health Clinical Development Training Program
• An annual CPD budget to fund for external courses
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme including free confidential counselling
• High-street discounts
• 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 days’ bank holidays; increasing with completed years’ service & opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Moving Day Leave
• Membership of the Company pension scheme
• Recruit a Friend bonus scheme – up to £1,500
• Environmental Initiatives
• Westfield Health Cash Plan
• Free Eye Tests every 2 years
• Free annual Flu-Vaccination
• Free Physiotherapy

We’re passionate about providing our colleagues with a work environment they can feel comfortable in and can grow professionally. In 2020 we signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge, affirming our commitment to protecting our colleague’s mental health and last year became a Disability Confident Committed employer.

Each year we ask our colleagues to nominate a chosen charity for whom we fundraise for throughout the year, and we are committed to supporting the environment through reducing our carbon output and offsetting what we do emit.

IPRS Group are committed to creating a more sustainable environment and back in 2021 founded the IPRS Group Forest with partners Treenation. We have since planted over 1000 trees offsetting over 600 tonnes of CO2 and love to gift colleagues with trees to celebrate events and achievements!

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, at IPRS HEALTH, we ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.