Head of Trauma, Wellbeing and Occupational Health

Head of Trauma, Wellbeing and Occupational Health

Are you ready for your next challenge leading our trauma, Occupational Health and staff wellbeing services?

Location: Northampton

Salary: £78,800 - £86,000 plus £6,300 travel allowance

A bit about us

We are St Andrews a mental health Charity which inspires Hope. We work together with a number of organisations to transform the lives of people with complex mental health needs. We provide specialist mental healthcare and deliver a range of inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve lives.

Our vision for the future is a society in which everyone living with mental health need is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come join us. Let's transform lives together.

A bit about the role

This is an exciting newly formed clinical role where you will lead our Charitys trauma, Occupational Health and staff wellbeing provision. You will lead, manage and develop a team of Occupational health advisors, administrators and psychology support. Although the services are currently separate, you will play a key role in co-ordinating the provision and provide specialist expertise to promote, maintain and improve the physical and psychological wellbeing of all our colleagues.

Your diverse remit will include:

• Leading and managing our Trauma Response service for all sites ensuring the provision of high-quality specialist trauma psychological support for staff.
• Implementing a range of psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, and groups, within and across teams.
• Promoting the understanding and organisational management of the psychological impact of adverse events at all levels.
• Ensuring effective operational management of all services including KPI development, budget management and managing the relevant contracts with suppliers (e.g. our Employee Assistance Service).
• Assessing and formulating the Charitys challenges and barriers related to the current Occupational Health provision identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Partnering with other departments including Physical Healthcare, Health and Safety, Operations and HR to develop proactive and preventative wellbeing and employee health initiatives.
• Creating, socialising and implementing a wellbeing strategy for the Charity focusing on the effective provision of our in-house Occupational Health service, trauma and other wellbeing support.

About you

You will have post-graduate Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent) as accredited by the BPS. You will be a Practitioner in Psychological trauma with extensive assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or psychotherapist, including substantial recent post qualification experience within staff wellbeing.

You will have Doctoral level knowledge of psychological therapies including knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, neuro psychology, and two or more distinct psychological therapies.

You will bring a strong track record of delivering innovative solutions in a healthcare environment including aligning wellbeing services, strategy development and implementation. You will be an excellent people manager and be accustomed to developing high performing teams.

Our patients, their carers and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew's CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

Interested?

If this sounds like you then wed love you to apply here. If you would like a full Job Description or an informal and confidential discussion about the role please contact Dave Anthony, our Head of Recruitment at jcfarrelly@ stah.org.

Closing Date: Tuesday 20 May 2025

Interview Date: TBC