Practitioner Psychologist - Band 8b - CRHTT / MHLT- Ipswich Ipswich, England
Job description
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,200 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 900+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require
JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION
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YOUR APPLICATION
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Job overview
New Year, new opportunity?
Would you like to join an expanding psychology and therapies team in the acute services in East Suffolk, covering the adult inpatient wards, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and the Mental Health Liaison Service (MHLS) at Ipswich General Hospital?
The postholder will take the lead on developing a high-quality clinical psychology service to adults referred to the CRHTT and MHLS. This is an exciting time to join the team in the acute service and there are opportunities work alongside other clinical psychologists and psychological therapists to influence the culture and model of care of the service making a real difference to clinical outcomes. As well as holding a clinical caseload the role will include providing clinical supervision to the wider teams, training, service development and contribute to the overall management of the therapies team. Your leadership skills will be supported and developed, with access to relevant training and development programmes, supervision and mentoring.
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust has close links with the University of East Anglia Clinical Psychology Doctorate course and there are opportunities available to combine this clinical role with a part-time role at UEA for interested applicants (please get in touch if you are interested).
Main duties of the job
- To provide psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of information from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures and rating scales.
- To formulate plans for psychological treatment and/or management of a person's mental and/or health problems based upon an appropriate understanding of their difficulties.
- To be responsible for implementing a psychological interventions appropriate to the needs of people referred to the acute adult mental health service.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental issues.
- To provide expertise and specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals, within the adult acute mental health service, NSFT and other organisations.
- To ensure that all members of the wider clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of those people referred to the service through the provision of advice, consultation and clinical supervision for psychological interventions.
Working for our organisation
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey.
Benefits
Benefits included with this role are:-
- NHS pension
- A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- Career progression
- Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- Staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park while still being just over an hour away from London. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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**Previous applicants need not apply**
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
- Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity.
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems Teaching, training and delivering clinical supervision.
- Relevant experience in service area
Desirable criteria
- Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
- Representing psychology within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts)
- Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically highly sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Production of reports suitable for public presentations and presentation in medicolegal setting
- High level knowledge in the assessment and evaluation of psychological therapies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems Creating and delivering presentations and training programmes in line with specialist knowledge.
- Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel independently
- Capacity to exercise careful clinical judgement whilst having the ability to work with and to hold the stress of others in the work setting
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
Additionally, people with disabilities that fall under the Two Ticks - Guaranteed Interview Scheme will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post (outlined in the Person Specification).
DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.
Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.
The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.
This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
