Acute Liaison Mental Health Service Principal Clinical Psychologist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Acute Liaison Mental Health Service carry out specialist mental health assessments, and thorough risk assessments, so as to develop a collaborative treatment and management plan for our patients, working within the two general acute hospitals in Northamptonshire. You will work as part of a comprehensive multidisciplinary team, who will support each other in the provision and care of patients attending the A&E departments and hospital in-patients.

Main duties of the job

The ultimate goal is to provide a coordinated approach to all aspects of mental health needs within the general hospital setting at both NGH and KGH.

About us

Continue to develop effective communications between the Mental Health Team and the wider hospital, ensuring that appropriate provision is made for assessments and the development of care packages to meet assessed needs. To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all sectors of care. To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.

Date posted

09 August 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£56,164 to £65,262 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

270-TD465-MH

Job locations

Campbell House

Campbell Square

Northampton

NN1 5EB

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will support frontline assessments within A+E and the wards as well as providing brief follow up work on an outpatient basis to attempt to reduce acute hospital attendance as a result of on-going mental health concern.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of 4 years with 2 years as a senior clinical psychologist.
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience of representing and leading psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Behaviours & Values

Essential

Demonstrates the ability (and commitment) to work as a collaborative and reflective practitioner and to support others to do likewise
Able to hold difficult conversations and/or set boundaries with sensitivity
Approachable for MDT colleagues and supervisees
Belief in the value of lived experience in the development and provision in the service and ability to incorporate this skillfully into the service model

Skills & Abilities

Essential

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex/sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
To take the psychology lead, as the principal clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team's operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of 4 years with 2 years as a senior clinical psychologist.
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Experience of representing and leading psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists

Behaviours & Values

Essential

Demonstrates the ability (and commitment) to work as a collaborative and reflective practitioner and to support others to do likewise
Able to hold difficult conversations and/or set boundaries with sensitivity
Approachable for MDT colleagues and supervisees
Belief in the value of lived experience in the development and provision in the service and ability to incorporate this skillfully into the service model

Skills & Abilities

Essential

To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's psychological problems including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, highly complex/sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
To take the psychology lead, as the principal clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team's operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.

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.