Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 263-ICG24-006-JW
- Employer
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hopewood Park Hospital
- Town
- Sunderland
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 7
Job overview
We are delighted to be offering a Band 7 Clinical Psychology development post within our Adult Inpatients Service based at Hopewood Park Hospital, Sunderland and are looking for enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists to provide specialist psychological input on our wards. We welcome applications from both current Band 7s and current final year trainees. Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training is desirable but not essential.
There are three acute adult inpatient wards at Hopewood Park, two male and one female, Each has the provision of a 0.5 WTE (18.75 hours) Psychologist, supported by a 0.5 WTE Higher Assistant Psychologist. We are keen to hear from applicants who either wish to work full-time (37.5 hours) or part time (18,75 hours). Please indicate your preference in your application
Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services provide multi-disciplinary care using a biopsychosocial model for service users over the age of 18. The acute service provides care for service users with acute mental health needs who require assessment and treatment in hospital. Service users admitted to hospital are often highly complex and have a range of experiences and difficulties including neurodiversity, psychosis, personality difficulties and learning difficulties, risk to self and others, forensic issues and behaviours that challenge.
Main duties of the job
These posts involve providing expertise in applying specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive assessments, collaborative formulation and interventions with service users and working with multi-disciplinary teams to embed formulation and trauma informed care. This includes individual and group based work and involvement of families and carers. It will involve supporting multidisciplinary staff working with service users through supervision, team formulation, contributing to understanding complex risk, developing behaviour support plans and providing reflective practice sessions and training to the teams. The role may also involve research, service evaluation and audit. You will be supported to develop your skills in these areas and in addition all of the wards have Higher Assistant Psychologist time and this provides opportunities for the development of skills in supervision and line management.
The post holders will be fully supported to enable them to progress to Band 8a within 2 years of having been in a Band 7 role. This will require successful completion of a mutually agreed development plan, demonstration of the experience, skills, knowledge and competencies required and confirmation of their suitability to progress by an assessment panel.
If the requirements are not fully achieved within 2 years the post holder will remain as a Band 7 and this outcome will be managed as part of the contract conditions agreed with the post holder at the outset
Working for our organisation
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Post holders will be part of a supportive inpatient psychology team which provides psychological services to Adult Acute, Adult Rehabilitation, Older People's and Learning Disability services. The team is part of a valued trust wide psychological service which has a range of regular meetings and support activities to ensure professional governance and to promote evidence based and innovative psychologically informed care.
Working in inpatient services offers excellent opportunities to develop skills in both direct and indirect clinical work, clinical leadership, service development, staff support and supervision and teaching and training and we welcome contact from interested candidates to further discuss these roles and visit our service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note to apply for this role you must have the right to work in the UK. CNTW NHS Foundation Trust will not provide sponsorship for this role.
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 23rd April 2024
Closing date : 7th May 2024
We welcome your application.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC.
- HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
Desirable criteria
- Further post-graduate training in other fields of applied psychology / therapies
Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist skills in assessment, formulation delivering evidence based psychological interventions
- Some experience of completing neuropsychology assessment
- Some experience of providing teaching and training
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in providing clinical supervision
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical experience of working across a range of settings and with range of client groups
- Experience of MDT working
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Veronica Locatelli-Booth
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812 488190
- Additional information
Dr Samuel Watts
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
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