psychologist North Hykeham, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity to join the Acute Pathways within the Older People and Frailty Division at a time of expansion of the psychology workforce within the Division. Working in a varied role across inpatient and community services allowing broad development opportunities, two posts are available; one aligned to the dementia acute pathway comprising the dementia inpatient ward and dementia home treatment team, and one post aligned to the mental health acute pathway comprising the mental health inpatient ward and mental health home treatment team. You will work alongside specialist multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) including Occupational Therapists, Psychiatric Nurses and Assistants, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Consultant Psychiatrists, Pharmacists, and Service Managers. Both wards and home treatment teams are based at Witham Court, North Hykeham which is a hub for the division. As such you will have close links with other services in the division allowing for multi-disciplinary support, but there is also scope for some remote working.
We welcome applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists as well as applications from candidates due to complete their doctoral training this year. Depending on experience, successful candidates will commence the post at either Band 7 in a developmental role for progression to Band 8a upon completion of a competency framework, or commence at Band 8a with existing experience and skills to match the person specification.
Be part of specialist MDTs across the acute services, in either the mental health or dementia pathways.
Provide a qualified clinical psychology service for older people within the acute pathways with either mental health or dementia presentations. This will include specialist assessment and formulation, and provision of brief interventions, as well as evaluation of the services provided.
Contribute to multi-disciplinary decision making around service user progression through the pathway based on assessment and formulation, and risk assessment and safety planning.
Be supported by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to facilitate staff groups focused on formulation development and reflective practice.
Provide psychological consultation and opinion to members of the MDT in the inpatient and home treatment teams. This will aid development of psychological formulation and understanding across the teams, and support with care planning.
Undertake and contribute to risk assessment and safety planning for individual service users.
Support implementation of evidence based practice, and utilise research skills for audit and service evaluations.
Contribute to engagement with carers/families/relatives recognising their role in service user care.
Contribute to service development around trauma informed care and inpatient transformation.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
In addition to the above, the post holder will:
Complete evaluations of the service provided which may include completion of outcome measures and other forms of evaluation as appropriate, or contribute to the development of suitable measures if none currently exist.
Contribute to engagement with carers/families/relatives through development and maintenance of trusting and supportive relationships.
Contribute to delivery of teaching and training.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to Trust policies.
Receive and participate in regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service activities, supervision needs, and continuing professional development in the best interests of the service being provided.
Contribute to professional leadership including provision of clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other clinical staff, as required, with the possibility of providing managerial supervision to Assistant Psychologists.
