Job summary
We are seeking to recruit a high calibre, newly
qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. We encourage career progression
to allow successful candidates the opportunity to develop their skills and
competencies in-line with service needs. One day a week is available to
complete continuing professional development (CPD) and facilitate specific
training in evidence-based therapies to a professionally accredited standard.
After a minimum of two years from appointment and the completion of set
targets, the successful applicant will have the opportunity for promotion to
Agenda for Change Band 8a.
The successful candidate will join a team of Practitioner
Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Assistant Psychologists, providing
Psychological assessments and evidence-based therapies to Adults within North
East Lincolnshire. The Psychology team work closely with colleagues across
Navigo, providing Psychological consultancy, support and guidance.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be embedded into the
Community Psychology service, alongside other Psychological professionals,
delivering therapies to service users referred to the Psychology department.
The
department receive referrals for a range of mental health disorders, such as
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Personality Disorder, Bipolar, Depression and
Anxiety Disorders, so the candidate will develop a variety of therapeutic
skills and work towards accreditation in evidence-based therapies.
The
candidate may be required to conduct psychometric investigations of
neuropsychological difficulties, supporting colleagues with formulation and
treatment planning.
Other duties may include attending MDT's, being involved in the training
of non-Psychology staff, as part of the organisations Community Mental Health
transformation strategy, and also providing supervision to other Psychology
professionals and occasionally other mental health professionals across the
organisation.
About us
Hello!
We
are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and
well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health
services to the NHS and beyond.
The
whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our
own family to use.
We
offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community
facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults
inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an
outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.
Ranked
as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies
top 100 large company list.
As
a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also
developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide
training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden
Centre.
Working
at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we
really mean it.
We
like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.
Come
and Join us !
Please
note: Whilst we value all applications, if we believe an application to be AI
generated, we will use a checking tool and may reject any application that has
been automatically generated.
Should
you require any assistance in completing this application due to a disability
or other needs please contact navigo.recruitment@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of
specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions,
which may include challenging behaviours.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their
carers and families.
To provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less
experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other
members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job.
To be pro-active in continual service improvement within own
area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with
mental ill health and any associated disabilities.
To maintain minimum standards in accordance with local
Payment by Results developments and, in conjunction with colleagues, develop
outcome measures to provide an empirically measured standard for delivery of
own and supervises psychological provision.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and
the wider organisation
MAIN DUTIES
& RESPONSIBILITIES
1.1 - Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients
with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and
integration of data from a variety of sources.
1.2 - Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy
and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an
appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the
implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
1.3 - Implements a range of specialist psychological
therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and
refining psychological formulations as required.
1.4 - Evaluates therapy options and makes decisions about
treatment.
1.5 - Provides specialist psychological advice, guidance and
consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis,
formulation and intervention plan.
1.6 - Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs
of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting
all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.
Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding
of children who may be at risk.
1.7 - Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for
individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on
psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Administrative
Responsibilities.
2.1 - Required at times to undertake administrative tasks in
relation to own work.
2.2 - Uses Microsoft Office applications on a daily basis.
Responsibility
for information systems.
3.1 - Responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive
patient/client records using SYSTMONE in accordance with the organisational and
professional record keeping standards.
3.2 - Writes reports for other members of the
multidisciplinary team and external parties regarding patient/client related
matters.
3.3 - Uses psychometric testing and associated software
packages.
3.3 - May use software packages for statistical analysis.
Responsibility for Planning/Organising & Strategic/Business
Development
4.1 - Organises own workload on a day-to-day basis,
prioritising work as appropriate.
4.2 - Assists in the allocation of work to assistant and
trainee psychologists.
4.3 - Plans individual patient/client care and acts as care
co-ordinator/lead practitioner, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a
multidisciplinary care package appropriate for the clients needs.
Policy Development
5.1 - Ensures that new or revised policies and procedures are
communicated effectively to assistant, trainee and newly qualified
psychologists and put into practice.
5.2 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing changes to
local procedures and working practices in own area and plays a significant role
in implementation.
Service Development, Project Management
6.1 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing safety, quality
and service improvements within own work area.
6.2 - Participates in the development, monitoring and
evaluation of service improvements in own area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of
specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions,
which may include challenging behaviours.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their
carers and families.
To provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less
experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other
members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job.
To be pro-active in continual service improvement within own
area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with
mental ill health and any associated disabilities.
To maintain minimum standards in accordance with local
Payment by Results developments and, in conjunction with colleagues, develop
outcome measures to provide an empirically measured standard for delivery of
own and supervises psychological provision.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and
the wider organisation
MAIN DUTIES
& RESPONSIBILITIES
1.1 - Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients
with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and
integration of data from a variety of sources.
1.2 - Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy
and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an
appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the
implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
1.3 - Implements a range of specialist psychological
therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and
refining psychological formulations as required.
1.4 - Evaluates therapy options and makes decisions about
treatment.
1.5 - Provides specialist psychological advice, guidance and
consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis,
formulation and intervention plan.
1.6 - Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs
of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting
all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client.
Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding
of children who may be at risk.
1.7 - Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for
individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on
psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Administrative
Responsibilities.
2.1 - Required at times to undertake administrative tasks in
relation to own work.
2.2 - Uses Microsoft Office applications on a daily basis.
Responsibility
for information systems.
3.1 - Responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive
patient/client records using SYSTMONE in accordance with the organisational and
professional record keeping standards.
3.2 - Writes reports for other members of the
multidisciplinary team and external parties regarding patient/client related
matters.
3.3 - Uses psychometric testing and associated software
packages.
3.3 - May use software packages for statistical analysis.
Responsibility for Planning/Organising & Strategic/Business
Development
4.1 - Organises own workload on a day-to-day basis,
prioritising work as appropriate.
4.2 - Assists in the allocation of work to assistant and
trainee psychologists.
4.3 - Plans individual patient/client care and acts as care
co-ordinator/lead practitioner, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a
multidisciplinary care package appropriate for the clients needs.
Policy Development
5.1 - Ensures that new or revised policies and procedures are
communicated effectively to assistant, trainee and newly qualified
psychologists and put into practice.
5.2 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing changes to
local procedures and working practices in own area and plays a significant role
in implementation.
Service Development, Project Management
6.1 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing safety, quality
and service improvements within own work area.
6.2 - Participates in the development, monitoring and
evaluation of service improvements in own area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist
- Trained in care co-ordination (within agreed timescale)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
- Registration with BPS
- Trained in clinical supervision (within agreed timescale)
Experience
Essential
- Must have experience/interest in working with serious mental illness cohorts
- Multi-disciplinary team working
Desirable
- Experience of CBT, DBT, EMDR and other evidence-based therapies
- Experience in conducting cognitive assessments in memory and intellect.
- Experience of group therapy
- Experience of research and audit
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
- Provide (within agreed timescale) effective teaching, training and clinical supervision
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities
- Utilise psychometric tests competently
- Able to work in accordance with the organisations values and ethos.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances .
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
Desirable
- Skills in using multimedia materials in presentations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist
- Trained in care co-ordination (within agreed timescale)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
- Registration with BPS
- Trained in clinical supervision (within agreed timescale)
Experience
Essential
- Must have experience/interest in working with serious mental illness cohorts
- Multi-disciplinary team working
Desirable
- Experience of CBT, DBT, EMDR and other evidence-based therapies
- Experience in conducting cognitive assessments in memory and intellect.
- Experience of group therapy
- Experience of research and audit
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
- Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
- Provide (within agreed timescale) effective teaching, training and clinical supervision
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities
- Utilise psychometric tests competently
- Able to work in accordance with the organisations values and ethos.
- Able to engage with vulnerable people and work effectively in highly distressing and challenging circumstances .
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions independently
- Committed to continual quality and service improvement
- Self-aware and committed to professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision
Desirable
- Skills in using multimedia materials in presentations
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
