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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health Service Older People
Grade
Band 7/8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref
346-DDM-018-24-A
Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Park Hospital
Town
Darlington
Salary
£43,742 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust logo

Specialist or Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist

Band 7/8a

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

We are delighted to offer a 30 hours per week post covering the maternity of a Clinical Psychologist working onto Oak ward, a functional ward based at West Park. We welcome applications from existing Band 8As, existing Band 7s and newly qualified psychologists and locums.

This is an exciting opportunity to innovate, build upon, develop and grow the psychological application, interventions and resources available to patients, carers and staff on the ward.

Main duties of the job

Oak ward is an assessment ward that provides inpatient admission stays for older people who are experiencing significant mental health related difficulties that are sufficient enough to require an admission.

The successful candidate will work with an experienced multi-professional team to help support the needs of our patients, carers and staff. The role will involve facilitating and supporting the delivery of psychological assessments, and psychologically informed interventions. The psychologist will use their knowledge of challenging behaviour to inform formulations and behaviour support plans, and interventions with the aim of reducing distress for our patients on the ward.

Working for our organisation

Working on the wards will provide you with the opportunity to work with professionals from multi-disciplines. As psychologists we work with the ward staff to support our patients in living well with mental health. Psychology is well established in all the areas across Mental Health Services for Older People and you will be joining a thriving and dynamic group of psychologists who will support your development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this, we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academy’s Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process. Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
  • HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Trained in clinical supervision (within agreed timescale)
  • Trained in care co-ordination (within agreed timescale)
Desirable criteria
  • Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
  • Registration with BPS

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Must have experience/interest in: Working with mental health clients (depending on designated service area)

Knowledge / Skills

Essential criteria
  • Risk assessment and risk management
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
  • Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employer

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jessica Tucker
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01325 552098
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