Job summary
The Northants Personality Disorder Hub is a countywide specialist service that works to enhance understanding of personality disorder and promote the delivery of effective interventions across community and inpatient services in Northamptonshire. The team comprises of staff from a range of professional backgrounds (including nursing, occupational therapy and clinical psychology).
The service provides a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) programme at two locations across the county, and leads on the delivery of Structured Clinical Management (SCM) across general secondary mental health services. Alongside this, the service also frequently delivers training to community and inpatient teams and benefits from an established group of experts by experience who are passionate about promoting hope, improving services and co-developing and delivering staff training. The service has active inclusion strategies targeted at improving access to relevant services for marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
An opportunity has arisen for a clinical or counselling psychologist with an interest in working with complex needs to join our specialist multi-disciplinary team in a fixed term maternity cover post. As outlined at the top of this advertisement, this post could be offered as a secondment opportunity provided that you have obtained approval from your current line manager.
Main duties of the job
This post will give the successful candidate the opportunity to develop their capabilities within a highly supportive and motivated multidisciplinary team.
Psychological formulation and an investment in on-going professional development are embedded in the team's approach. As a contributor to advances in local and national pathways, the service is at the forefront of transforming services and providing high quality care.
This post offers:
Training and supervision in DBT with the potential to use this toward a later accredited qualification in DBT.
Opportunities for leadership and development through involvement in high impact projects, including those targeted at improving service access and quality for marginalised groups, supported by senior management.
Support for relevant research/evaluation
You'll have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.
As a Senior Psychologist you will provide:
specialist psychological assessment, individual and group therapy sessions;
psychologically informed training and consultation to multidisciplinary professionals across community and in-patient services;
mentoring to Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologists within the team;
coordination and further development of the service's outcomes/evaluation protocol;
contribution to a range of service development projects.
About us
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential and desirable criteria:
Post-graduate qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and Health and Care Professions Council Registration are essential.
Training in, experience of delivering, specialist psychological therapies for personality disorder and/or complex trauma.
- Highly developed team-working and staff consultation skills.
- A strong commitment to reduce exclusion and stigma for people who attract a personality disorder diagnosis.
Highly developed organisational skills and the ability to cope in potentially challenging situations and high-pressure environments.
Flexibility is required as there may be some travelling to/from different sites across the county.
The Personality Disorder Hub is committed to providing an equitable, inclusive, representative and anti-racist service for its service users and staff. This includes efforts towards creating and maintaining a diverse workforce. Therefore, if you self-identify as belonging to a marginalised and/or minoritized community, we would like to encourage you to apply for the post and communicate this difference in your application and/or interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential and desirable criteria:
Post-graduate qualification in Clinical/Counselling Psychology and Health and Care Professions Council Registration are essential.
Training in, experience of delivering, specialist psychological therapies for personality disorder and/or complex trauma.
- Highly developed team-working and staff consultation skills.
- A strong commitment to reduce exclusion and stigma for people who attract a personality disorder diagnosis.
Highly developed organisational skills and the ability to cope in potentially challenging situations and high-pressure environments.
Flexibility is required as there may be some travelling to/from different sites across the county.
The Personality Disorder Hub is committed to providing an equitable, inclusive, representative and anti-racist service for its service users and staff. This includes efforts towards creating and maintaining a diverse workforce. Therefore, if you self-identify as belonging to a marginalised and/or minoritized community, we would like to encourage you to apply for the post and communicate this difference in your application and/or interview.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oDoctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- oSubstantial experience of working with people who present with high levels of risk
- oExperience of providing consultation, and/or supervision, and developing and delivering training sessions for people from a range of professional backgrounds
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- oFormal training in supervision of other psychologists/staff.
- oPost-qualification training and experience in delivering psychological interventions for complex/developmental trauma
- oExperience of working within a DBT programme.
- oPost-qualification training and experience in delivering psychological interventions for complex/developmental trauma
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- oWell-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in personality disorder
- oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oWell-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- oFormal training in the supervision of other psychologists
- oExperience of working with issues of difference and diversity
Behaviours & Values
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability (and commitment) to work as a reflective practitioner and to support others to do likewise
- Notices, responds to and formulates systemic complexity ?Collaborative style
- Able to hold difficult conversations and/or set boundaries, with sensitivity
- Approachable for MDT colleagues and supervisees
- Committed to the needs of the service
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- oDoctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- oSubstantial experience of working with people who present with high levels of risk
- oExperience of providing consultation, and/or supervision, and developing and delivering training sessions for people from a range of professional backgrounds
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
Desirable
- oFormal training in supervision of other psychologists/staff.
- oPost-qualification training and experience in delivering psychological interventions for complex/developmental trauma
- oExperience of working within a DBT programme.
- oPost-qualification training and experience in delivering psychological interventions for complex/developmental trauma
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- oWell-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in personality disorder
- oSkills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- oAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oWell-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Desirable
- oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
- oFormal training in the supervision of other psychologists
- oExperience of working with issues of difference and diversity
Behaviours & Values
Essential
- Demonstrates the ability (and commitment) to work as a reflective practitioner and to support others to do likewise
- Notices, responds to and formulates systemic complexity ?Collaborative style
- Able to hold difficult conversations and/or set boundaries, with sensitivity
- Approachable for MDT colleagues and supervisees
- Committed to the needs of the service
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
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).
