Job summary
This is an exciting
opportunity to provide a new model of care, across Plymouth, through the
establishment of the Inclusion Health Service.
In line with current
best practice this service is being developed using the “Pathway” approach,
providing ‘end to end’ support for individuals who are homeless. It involves
not only medical staff, but a range of multidisciplinary professionals with
expertise in social care, housing law and benefits issues, ensuring that a
person’s full range of needs are supported. More information about the "Pathway" approach can be found here www.pathway.org.uk
The aim of the
Inclusion Health service is:
- To create a
comprehensive service, for adults with complex needs related to
homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and
substance misuse issues.
The Service will:
- Prevent more
entrenched and longer-term homelessness.
- Contribute towards improving outcomes and addressing
health inequalities for
some of the most disadvantaged individuals in Plymouth.
- Achieve truly
joined up and effective care for this most vulnerable group of individuals
and ensure engagement and completion of treatment wherever possible.
Main duties of the job
- As a lead specialist within the Pathway team you will be responsible for assessment and treatment of own specialist caseload of clients with variety of complex problems including mental ill-health, behaviours that challenge, personality difficulties, autism spectrum disorders and neurological problems.
- Contribute to the regular MDT team meetings.
- As a lead specialist, responsible for providing, developing and managing highly specialist psychological interventions to clients and for communicating psychological formulations and treatment plans to carers and professional colleagues.
- The post holder would be expected to provide leadership from a psychological perspective.
- All team members are expected to work collaboratively and supportively with each other across Primary, Secondary Care and Community care boundaries to improve outcomes for people who are homeless.
- They should also work to the Pathway model (with flexibility as required), to attend team handover and MDT meetings, and to be present to take referrals, and undertake assessments and ward rounds where needed.
About us
This service will be delivered through an exciting and innovative partnership approach with collaboration from organisations such as Livewell Southwest CIC, Adelaide and St Levan Surgery, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and the Plymouth Alliance.
Livewell Southwest is a recognised provider of integrated health and social care services operating across South Hams, West Devon and Plymouth www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk
Adelaide and St Levan Surgery is a GP practice in the most deprived area of Plymouth, supporting many adults with complex needs. www.stlevansurgery.nhs.uk
The Plymouth Alliance was formed with a group of local charities / community organisations with leadership from Plymouth City Council to provide services to people with complex needs (homelessness, drug or alcohol misuse, mental illness and offending).
Our Plymouth health and care system requires and features strong and effective collaboration.
This role will be employed by one of these partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Skills
- To
possess and practice a high level of communication and relationship skills
in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening
behaviour can be expected.
- To provide specialist psychology assessment,
formulation, and interventions to adults with high levels of complexity and
vulnerabilities.
- Responsible
for overcoming a variety of barriers to communication when working with clients
who are fearful of others, unable to articulate their problems or who think
within a very different frame of reference, requiring imaginative and sensitive
approaches towards engagement.
- To
be able to identify and manage the need for more complex reformulation of the
client’s difficulties and to promote a realistic treatment plan.
- To
identify and be able to complete formal psychometric assessments with one’s own
clients and those of other team members, where this is appropriate.
- Care
Coordinate clients where appropriate who meet Care Programme Approach criteria.
- To
be able to communicate, by talking and by writing, psychological formulations
and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues
and to family members and carers, as appropriate.
- To
be able to prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports and reports for
child protection and vulnerable adults meetings.
- To
have knowledge of and skill within several psychological models of
understanding and managing clinical problems.
- To
be able to add both an understanding of psychosocial factors and an appropriate
intervention to the planning of treatment for clients referred to the service
but not on psychologist’s caseload.
- To
be able to manage an appropriate caseload whilst also being able to negotiate
and manage the need for waiting lists for assessment and treatment so that there
is steady movement of clients through the stages of referral, assessment,
treatment and discharge.
- To
be able to develop highly specialised individual treatment plans or packages of
care for clients with complex psychological problems such as autistic spectrum
disorder, severe challenging behaviour, offending profiles, dementia, the
long-term effects of childhood trauma, personality disorders, severe and
chronic depression, and other mental illnesses.
- To
be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with
people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be
actively self-harming or threatening to others.
- To
be able to analyse complex situations and think through an appropriate pattern
or sequence of strategies to respond therapeutically.
- To
ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good
practice guidelines for all clinical psychologists.
- To suggest and critically explore new
concepts without prejudice or assumption.
- All team members are expected
to work collaboratively and supportively with each other across Primary,
Secondary Care and Community care boundaries to improve outcomes for people who
are homeless.
- They should also work to the Pathway
model (with flexibility as required), to attend team handover and MDT meetings,
and to be present to take referrals, and undertake assessments and ward rounds
where needed.
Policy and Service Development
- To be
responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist
psychology services within the Inclusion Health Service.
- Through
membership of the psychology specialty, to be responsible for contributing
to the planning and development of specialist psychology services across
the service.
- As a
member of the Inclusion Health Service to be responsible for promoting the
need to plan and develop the multidisciplinary response to clinical
demands and expectations on it.
- To attend
the Psychology meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources
- To be responsible for providing clinical
supervision and professional support and guidance as required to Clinical
Psychologists within the service who are less experienced.
- To be responsible for providing clinical
supervision to non-clinical psychology members of the service as
appropriate.
- To be responsible for supervising
qualified clinical psychologists from other specialties, as required, in
relation to their work with clients who may have learning disabilities.
- To be responsible for planning and
supervising the work of undergraduate psychology students on year long and
short term placements.
- To be responsible for the supervision of
the work of Assistant Psychologist/s.
- To ensure the development, maintenance and
dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active
participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development -
CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and
Development
- To conduct and supervise research and
audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of the Inclusion Health
Service.
- To initiate and implement project
management techniques and tools in order to achieve completion of evaluations,
audits, research and service developments.
- To prepare and present information from
audits, evaluations and research to professional audiences within and
outside the organisation.
- To prepare papers for publication based
on audit, evaluation, research and development work.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based
literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual
work and work with team members in the Inclusion Health Service and
Clinical Psychology.
Values
- Empathy and compassion – providing care for
patients that is rooted in the patient’s priorities.
- Collective responsibility – all team members take responsibility
for patients and the team’s success, work collaboratively, and support each
other.
- Creative persistence – team members tackle
complicated problems together, seek practical solutions, and ‘never give up’.
- Challenging discrimination and
poor practice – teams support the delivery of equitable health care, challenging
poor attitudes, behaviours and practices.
- Inclusive approach to
healthcare – teams
subscribe to Pathway’s belief that everything about a person’s situation
affects their health – not just their medical conditions.
- Promoting autonomy – patient empowerment
and individual agency.
- Relationship builders and
influencers – form strong networks within and outside of the hospital and
influence the behaviour of different stakeholders across those networks
including by teaching, training and inspiring others.
- Constantly improving – seeking new
opportunities and ways to improve their service, its resilience, and the
support it gives to, and receives from, others.
- Trauma-informed – the culture
of the whole system, including all work practices and settings reflects a
trauma-informed approach.
Additional Information
As a new service we are keen
for the successful applicant to bring their expertise and experience to help
shape and define the job role and the Health Inclusion Service. Equally, as this new service launches and
evolves it may be necessary to review job responsibilities. Therefore, at this
stage this is a draft job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Skills
- To
possess and practice a high level of communication and relationship skills
in situations where emotional distress, and risk of self-harm and of life-threatening
behaviour can be expected.
- To provide specialist psychology assessment,
formulation, and interventions to adults with high levels of complexity and
vulnerabilities.
- Responsible
for overcoming a variety of barriers to communication when working with clients
who are fearful of others, unable to articulate their problems or who think
within a very different frame of reference, requiring imaginative and sensitive
approaches towards engagement.
- To
be able to identify and manage the need for more complex reformulation of the
client’s difficulties and to promote a realistic treatment plan.
- To
identify and be able to complete formal psychometric assessments with one’s own
clients and those of other team members, where this is appropriate.
- Care
Coordinate clients where appropriate who meet Care Programme Approach criteria.
- To
be able to communicate, by talking and by writing, psychological formulations
and treatment plans to the client and to appropriate professional colleagues
and to family members and carers, as appropriate.
- To
be able to prepare and provide complex medico-legal reports and reports for
child protection and vulnerable adults meetings.
- To
have knowledge of and skill within several psychological models of
understanding and managing clinical problems.
- To
be able to add both an understanding of psychosocial factors and an appropriate
intervention to the planning of treatment for clients referred to the service
but not on psychologist’s caseload.
- To
be able to manage an appropriate caseload whilst also being able to negotiate
and manage the need for waiting lists for assessment and treatment so that there
is steady movement of clients through the stages of referral, assessment,
treatment and discharge.
- To
be able to develop highly specialised individual treatment plans or packages of
care for clients with complex psychological problems such as autistic spectrum
disorder, severe challenging behaviour, offending profiles, dementia, the
long-term effects of childhood trauma, personality disorders, severe and
chronic depression, and other mental illnesses.
- To
be able to manage the emotional impact of working, often one-to-one, with
people who can be in crisis and who can show high levels of arousal and can be
actively self-harming or threatening to others.
- To
be able to analyse complex situations and think through an appropriate pattern
or sequence of strategies to respond therapeutically.
- To
ensure receipt of clinical and personal supervision in accordance with good
practice guidelines for all clinical psychologists.
- To suggest and critically explore new
concepts without prejudice or assumption.
- All team members are expected
to work collaboratively and supportively with each other across Primary,
Secondary Care and Community care boundaries to improve outcomes for people who
are homeless.
- They should also work to the Pathway
model (with flexibility as required), to attend team handover and MDT meetings,
and to be present to take referrals, and undertake assessments and ward rounds
where needed.
Policy and Service Development
- To be
responsible for promoting the need to plan and develop specialist
psychology services within the Inclusion Health Service.
- Through
membership of the psychology specialty, to be responsible for contributing
to the planning and development of specialist psychology services across
the service.
- As a
member of the Inclusion Health Service to be responsible for promoting the
need to plan and develop the multidisciplinary response to clinical
demands and expectations on it.
- To attend
the Psychology meetings and other relevant meetings regularly.
Human Resources
- To be responsible for providing clinical
supervision and professional support and guidance as required to Clinical
Psychologists within the service who are less experienced.
- To be responsible for providing clinical
supervision to non-clinical psychology members of the service as
appropriate.
- To be responsible for supervising
qualified clinical psychologists from other specialties, as required, in
relation to their work with clients who may have learning disabilities.
- To be responsible for planning and
supervising the work of undergraduate psychology students on year long and
short term placements.
- To be responsible for the supervision of
the work of Assistant Psychologist/s.
- To ensure the development, maintenance and
dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active
participation in internal and external Continuing Professional Development -
CPD training and development programmes and courses.
Research and
Development
- To conduct and supervise research and
audit and evaluation relevant to the provision of the Inclusion Health
Service.
- To initiate and implement project
management techniques and tools in order to achieve completion of evaluations,
audits, research and service developments.
- To prepare and present information from
audits, evaluations and research to professional audiences within and
outside the organisation.
- To prepare papers for publication based
on audit, evaluation, research and development work.
- To utilise theory, evidence-based
literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual
work and work with team members in the Inclusion Health Service and
Clinical Psychology.
Values
- Empathy and compassion – providing care for
patients that is rooted in the patient’s priorities.
- Collective responsibility – all team members take responsibility
for patients and the team’s success, work collaboratively, and support each
other.
- Creative persistence – team members tackle
complicated problems together, seek practical solutions, and ‘never give up’.
- Challenging discrimination and
poor practice – teams support the delivery of equitable health care, challenging
poor attitudes, behaviours and practices.
- Inclusive approach to
healthcare – teams
subscribe to Pathway’s belief that everything about a person’s situation
affects their health – not just their medical conditions.
- Promoting autonomy – patient empowerment
and individual agency.
- Relationship builders and
influencers – form strong networks within and outside of the hospital and
influence the behaviour of different stakeholders across those networks
including by teaching, training and inspiring others.
- Constantly improving – seeking new
opportunities and ways to improve their service, its resilience, and the
support it gives to, and receives from, others.
- Trauma-informed – the culture
of the whole system, including all work practices and settings reflects a
trauma-informed approach.
Additional Information
As a new service we are keen
for the successful applicant to bring their expertise and experience to help
shape and define the job role and the Health Inclusion Service. Equally, as this new service launches and
evolves it may be necessary to review job responsibilities. Therefore, at this
stage this is a draft job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin. Psych or equivalent) and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification/training in either: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Systemic family therapy, Mindfulness based therapies, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Further training in or significant experience in neuropsychological assessment.
Experience
Essential
- This post requires a person to have gained theoretical and practical knowledge specific to adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Knowledge of mental health services in the NHS, skills and practice of clinical psychology.
- Experience of teaching and training others.
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and promote psychological interventions as appropriate.
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others
- Strong leadership qualities, resilience and ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Experience in assessing, formulating and providing interventions for adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Experience of conducting psychological assessments.
- Experience of conducting and interpreting neuropsychological assessments.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in teams and maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
- IT Skills.
- Organisation and time management skills.
- Experience of developing effective relationships with other agencies and organisations and working across organisational boundaries within health or social care.
- To have well developed reflective practice skills.
- Extensive experience of working effectively as part of a team and aiding the development of a team.
- Consultation skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin. Psych or equivalent) and registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification/training in either: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Systemic family therapy, Mindfulness based therapies, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Further training in or significant experience in neuropsychological assessment.
Experience
Essential
- This post requires a person to have gained theoretical and practical knowledge specific to adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Knowledge of mental health services in the NHS, skills and practice of clinical psychology.
- Experience of teaching and training others.
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team and promote psychological interventions as appropriate.
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others
- Strong leadership qualities, resilience and ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Experience in assessing, formulating and providing interventions for adults with complex needs related to homelessness, health, contact with the criminal justice system and substance misuse issues.
- Experience of conducting psychological assessments.
- Experience of conducting and interpreting neuropsychological assessments.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of working in teams and maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex highly technical and or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS.
- IT Skills.
- Organisation and time management skills.
- Experience of developing effective relationships with other agencies and organisations and working across organisational boundaries within health or social care.
- To have well developed reflective practice skills.
- Extensive experience of working effectively as part of a team and aiding the development of a team.
- Consultation skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).