Specialised Clinical Psychologist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

To manage a caseload of patients within the Boston or Skegess Integrated Community Mental Health Teams. To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. The standards of practice will include meeting the standards defined by the HCPC British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology) and Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patients problems, via the employment of methods based upon evidence based practice and efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives and different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological.

To provide consultation and advice to relevant significant others (such as partners and carers) in order to improve the psychological health of clients of the service.

To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with mental health difficulties.

To keep adequate clinical records in accordance with the Division of Clinical Psychology guidance, and local trust policies and procedures.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patient and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with local trust policies and procedures.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of multi-disciplinary care.

Professional leadership

To provide clinical supervision and support to psychologists working in the service.

To sit on relevant committees/projects/working groups of the Trust as required.

To represent the Boston or SkegnessIntegrated Community Mental Health Teams in relationships with other agencies and care providers, and to provide advice and leadership in respect of psychological aspects of the needs of adults with mental health difficulties.

Teaching and training

To support the Continuing Professional Development of more junior psychologists working in the service.

To provide educational inputs to other professionals and to the staff of other agencies as required in the interests of adults with mental health difficulties.

To disseminate clinical expertise within either the Boston or Skegness Integrated Community Mental Health Teamsin working with clients who can present with challenging difficulties and high levels of distress.

To provide clinical placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

Research and service development

To use published research and information on good practice regularly to keep practice in the Service up-to-date.

To contribute to the development of new areas of expertise and of new practices in the Boston or SkegnessIntegrated Community Mental Health Teams as required.

To identify needs for service development in East CCG and to plan and initiate such service development with support from senior colleagues.

Managerial

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the services operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.

To manage the workloads of Assistant, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and junior colleagues, within the framework of the services policies and procedures.

To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of Assistant / graduate psychologists / qualified psychologists / other staff.

To participate as a senior clinician in the development of the service including advising management on those aspects of the service where psychological or organisational matters need addressing.

To implement and maintain the Trusts policies and procedures.

Clinical Governance

To implement and maintain the principles of Clinical Governance.

To implement and maintain good information governance in respect of HCPC British Psychological Societys and Department of Healths codes and guidance on the proper management of client information, the Caldicott principles and the Data Protection Act.

To engage in on-going personal professional development.

To abide by the British Psychological Societys Code of Professional Conduct and to follow guidance issued by the Division of Clinical Psychology and by the Department of Health and HCPC.

Administration

To keep all records up-to-date.

To collect data on referrals, caseloads and activities and submit these as required by the Trust.

To take due care of the Trusts equipment and resources.

General

To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards and practice, through the active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.

To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.

To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Honours degree in Psychology.
• 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 life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Registered with HCPC

Desirable

• Further training in evidence based psychological interventions
• Completed STAR supervisor training

Experience

Essential

• Experience working with adults who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis.
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis.
• Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable

• Experience of delivering teaching and training. Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to adults
• Experience of working in a community mental health team/other multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

TBC at interview

Louth, Skegness or Boston and hybrid working

LN1 1FS

Employer's website

https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)