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Job summary

Main area
Personality and Complex Trauma Service
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent: base to be flexible to nearest LMHT base across the county and hybrid working supported
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
274-10799-AC
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Saxon Court
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59
Interview date
03/06/2024

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Clinical Psychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in a dedicated community service providing treatment to people with needs understood as personality difficulties. You will have opportunity to access training in evidence based treatments including Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. This post is suitable for newly qualified practitioner psychologist on a B7 to B8a development post.   

You will work closely with the highly specialist clinical psychologist and the multi disciplinary team who are all motivated to work in a psychologically focused way to provide the highest quality, person centred care across to people across the county of Lincolnshire.

The whole team place great value on clinical supervision and reflective spaces, utilising skills and psychological models to expand their own thinking and ensure helpful, considered responses that enable the best life chances for the people who access the service.

The psychology structure in LPFT enables shared thinking and development across the community and inpatient services with high levels of support and the whole organisation is transforming to provide a greater psychological focus across all services.

The team hold strong values in understanding the people that access the service and modelling positive regard, the importance of working relationally and ensuring language reflects the values of the service and is inclusive for all.

Main duties of the job

To provide psychological knowledge and skills within a multi-professional team in the Adult Community Division.  This will enable those with secondary mental health difficulties in Lincolnshire to live well in their communities, by alleviating distress, promoting change, and enhancing psychological wellbeing. 

This will be achieved directly by delivering high quality psychological assessment, formulation and interventions to team clients, and indirectly through team and professional meetings and consultations; through clinical and professional supervision; though professional training and teaching; and through research and CPD.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be a team psychologist and integrated member of a multi-professional mental health service.

To participate as part of the DBT Team

To work as an autonomous psychologist responsible for their own work and carry a personal caseload of team clients. 

To complete secondary mental health care psychological assessments, formulations, interventions, and evaluations, both independently and alongside the team.

To provide formal clinical supervision to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists and to provide a consultation space for the psychology resource within the team.

To support the clinical work of other professions within the team.

To provide psychological expertise and consultation to other agencies and professions regarding team clients.

To provide clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning and co-ordination alongside the team manager.

To engage in psychological research activities, using research design, execution, and analysis relevant to the team and service development.

To take part in CPD and training, adhere to professional and Trust guidelines, and be compliant with Trust mandatory training.

To place an emphasis on co-production and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values clients’ and their carers and the core values of the Trust.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Honours degree in Psychology
  • Post-graduate (doctoral or masters degree) level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic psychology that confers eligibility for HCPC.
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
  • Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
  • Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of evidence-based psychological therapy
Desirable criteria
  • Completed STAR supervisor training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of psychological assessment, formulation, treatment, and evaluation of adults in secondary care mental health services.
  • Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with a range of presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
  • Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of delivering teaching and training. Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to adults.
  • Experience of working in a community mental health team/other multi-professional team
  • Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
  • Knowledge of professional guidelines set out by the HCPC.
  • Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems.
  • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
  • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
  • IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases.
  • Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
  • Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving client experience.
  • Enthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team member.
  • An ability to travel between sites as required, without the use of public transport.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
  • Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Kaddour
Job title
Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01522 421542
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