Job summary
Want to develop and be part of a multi-disciplinary team, work psychologically with staff and offer psychological interventions to service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties on a psychiatric rehabilitation ward?
We are offering a development post for a clinical/counselling/forensic psychologist or psychotherapist/CBT therapist with an interest in serious mental health difficulties and curiosity to understand human mind in its various complexities. We are an in-patient service providing active rehabilitation to 17 male service users in order to support and enable their recovery and help them build and live a meaningful and satisfying life. Psychological understanding of their difficulties and psychological interventions are a key part of the rehabilitation programme that we offer. Following a substantial investment into the complex rehabilitation service, we are proud to be extending our rehabilitation offer, and this also includes enhancing the psychological resource in the service.
This role offers the opportunity to join us in a development post, which will offer you a clear pathway to achieving the experience, skills and knowledge required to secure the higher end role/pay band within the team once the agreed competencies have been met. You will be provided with a supportive learning environment for a defined period, which is designed to help you meet the requirements of the higher end role.
Main duties of the job
Ward 5, the Newsam Centre is a 17-bedded male complex rehabilitation ward offering active psychiatric rehabilitation treatment of up to 2 years to service users with severe and enduring mental health difficulties, often comorbid with alcohol and substance abuse and personality difficulties.
A central part of the role will be working with the staff team to enhance psychological thinking in the team and to help inform care planning. In addition, the role will focus on forming longer-term therapeutic relationships with service users and delivering individual and group therapy interventions aimed at helping service users to better understand themselves, to better live with themselves and make the most of their potential.
Main aspects of the role include:
- Providing specialist level psychological/psychotherapy interventions for individuals, families and groups.
- Facilitating team formulations.
- Providing input into MDT clinical team meetings and working closely with MDT teams as an integral team member.
- Providing psychologically informed care with a trauma lens.
- Teaching/training/supervision and consultancy to MDT teams.
- Conducting research, audit and innovative project work, as appropriate.
- Contributing to service development
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
This will be an exciting and varied role including opportunities for individual therapy, team-based formulations, facilitating training, consultations with the team, groupwork as well as opportunities to contribute to key strategic service developments such as trauma informed care. You will be involved in influencing at a team level with opportunities to lead on innovative projects or research to meet the needs of service users. Personal development is highly valued and supported within the service. This is an opportunity to join the team at an exciting time when a number of new developments are underway. We are a service that really welcomes innovation and are working towards a culture that is service user focussed and inclusive, with strong principles of personal recovery.
A wish and ability to make and maintain meaningful relationships with service users and staff will be central to this role, as well as openness to integrate the psychological perspective with the perspectives of other professions, such as psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and social work. Flexibility in applying formal therapy models as appropriate to the ward setting will be also important. Interest and skills in supporting professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work will be another key part of the role. Clinical supervision is important as the role involves provision of supervision to psychologists in training and other professionals within the service. The team will support the completion of supervisor training.
We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision. We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.
The post holder will support and enhance the psychological/psychotherapy provision available to service users with severe mental health difficulties on Ward 5, Newsam Centre, complex rehab.
This includes:
To provide a qualified psychology/psychotherapy service to service users (SUs) and carers accessing Ward 5, complex rehabilitation.
To work autonomously and make appropriate decisions without opportunity to consult more widely.
To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapy knowledge, formulation skills, and direct and indirect intervention, as appropriate, for this client group living with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and unusual experiences.
To offer advice and consultation on SUs psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non - professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service areas policies and procedures.
To offer clinical supervision to other Psychological Professionals and other staff where agreed.
To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the service area.
To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility.
All work will be carried out within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
For further information about Ward 5 and to discuss the role, contact Dr Jana Fusekova, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead jana.fusekova@nhs.net or Jeanette Lawson, Ward 5 Operations manager jeanette.lawson@nhs.net.
Informal discussions most welcome.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This will be an exciting and varied role including opportunities for individual therapy, team-based formulations, facilitating training, consultations with the team, groupwork as well as opportunities to contribute to key strategic service developments such as trauma informed care. You will be involved in influencing at a team level with opportunities to lead on innovative projects or research to meet the needs of service users. Personal development is highly valued and supported within the service. This is an opportunity to join the team at an exciting time when a number of new developments are underway. We are a service that really welcomes innovation and are working towards a culture that is service user focussed and inclusive, with strong principles of personal recovery.
A wish and ability to make and maintain meaningful relationships with service users and staff will be central to this role, as well as openness to integrate the psychological perspective with the perspectives of other professions, such as psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy and social work. Flexibility in applying formal therapy models as appropriate to the ward setting will be also important. Interest and skills in supporting professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work will be another key part of the role. Clinical supervision is important as the role involves provision of supervision to psychologists in training and other professionals within the service. The team will support the completion of supervisor training.
We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision. We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.
The post holder will support and enhance the psychological/psychotherapy provision available to service users with severe mental health difficulties on Ward 5, Newsam Centre, complex rehab.
This includes:
To provide a qualified psychology/psychotherapy service to service users (SUs) and carers accessing Ward 5, complex rehabilitation.
To work autonomously and make appropriate decisions without opportunity to consult more widely.
To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapy knowledge, formulation skills, and direct and indirect intervention, as appropriate, for this client group living with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and unusual experiences.
To offer advice and consultation on SUs psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non - professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service areas policies and procedures.
To offer clinical supervision to other Psychological Professionals and other staff where agreed.
To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within the service area.
To provide a key role in psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility.
All work will be carried out within the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.
For further information about Ward 5 and to discuss the role, contact Dr Jana Fusekova, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead jana.fusekova@nhs.net or Jeanette Lawson, Ward 5 Operations manager jeanette.lawson@nhs.net.
Informal discussions most welcome.
Person Specification
Qualifications and registration
Essential
- Doctorate level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) with HCPC registration OR Doctorate level training in Counselling Psychology or Forensic Psychology (or Masters accredited by BPS) with HCPC registration OR Masters or above in a psychotherapy, and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) OR Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy AND Practitioner Accreditation/Full accreditation audit status with BABCP as a CBT therapist AND either a prior core profession or via KSA route.
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary.
Person Specification
Qualifications and registration
Essential
- Doctorate level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996) with HCPC registration OR Doctorate level training in Counselling Psychology or Forensic Psychology (or Masters accredited by BPS) with HCPC registration OR Masters or above in a psychotherapy, and accredited as a psychotherapist with UKCP or BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) OR Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy AND Practitioner Accreditation/Full accreditation audit status with BABCP as a CBT therapist AND either a prior core profession or via KSA route.
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary.
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).
