Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 274-10536-AC-D
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Unit 9, The Point
- Town
- Sleaford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling/Practitioner Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
If you are passionate about psychology within adult community mental health and being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, this is the perfect role for you.
The Sleaford CMHT is a vibrant, collaborative and supportive team; we are motivated to deliver the best service whilst prioritising staff well-being and job satisfaction. We strongly promote CPD and pride ourselves on being a flexible, compassionate employer. We welcome conversations about full/part time, flexible/remote working opportunities.
You will be welcomed into a highly regarded CMHT and the wider multidisciplinary locality as well as a highly skilled and dynamic Psychology division. We support our Psychologists to develop their interests within and beyond direct clinical work, focusing on the broader application of clinical psychology and the full extent of their training and roles. We see the role of Psychologists as enhancing the psychological mindedness of the MDT, supporting and improving the whole Team's ability to deliver psychological interventions.
We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic) who already has the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or a Psychologist who meets the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 post and can achieve the 8a position through a year’s preceptorship (and completion of a portfolio). For further information please contact Mrs Elle Twelvetrees on 01522 458312 or Dr Olivia Marcoulides on 01476858333.
Main duties of the job
To support the embedding of psychologically minded assessment and interventions within our community mental health services across the South of the County. This will be through attendance at MDTs and facilitation of clinical consultation meetings.
To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build a trauma informed understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways that meet their individual needs.
To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.
To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.
To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
To support coproduced service development within the teams and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.
To provide clinical supervision for Trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists, team reflective practice/supervision and support the development of new psychologically informed roles.
The role is varied with opportunity for direct therapeutic intervention, MDT consultation, formulation as well as 1:1 support for staff, education and training.
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To manage a caseload of patients within the Sleaford Integrated Community Mental Health Team.
To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. The standards of practice will include meeting the standards defined by the HCPC British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology or equivalent) and Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patient’s mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patient’s problems, via the employment of methods based upon
evidence based practice and efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon a
range of theoretical perspectives and different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological.
To provide consultation and advice to relevant significant others (such as partners and carers) in order to improve the psychological health of clients of the service.
To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with mental health difficulties.
To keep adequate clinical records in accordance with the Division of Clinical Psychology guidance or equivalent, and local trust policies and procedures.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patient and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with local trust policies and procedures.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.
For full details of duties please refer to Job Description and Person Specification
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working with adults who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis.
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range 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.
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-disciplinary team
- Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical, counselling or forensic psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS and giving eligibility for membership of the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology, or Post-graduate qualification in Applied Psychology (professional Doctorate, or MSc that has been accepted by the HCPC for purposes of professional registration). This can include Counselling or Forensic/Health Psychology, as accredited by the BPS
- Registered with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Further training in evidence based psychological interventions
- Completed STAR supervisor training
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 BPS
Desirable criteria
- Personal experience of mental health problems
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elle Twelvetrees
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 458312
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