Job summary
We want you to join our Community Learning Disabilities Service, rated as 'Outstanding in Well Led' and 'Good' overall by CQC. You will be working within a Specialist Adult Learning Disabilities Service (South team, Grantham & Spalding) and along with other psychologists provide input into the Adult Autism Assessment service.
This role plays a key role in shaping and developing the current services lines and would be a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about driving change for the local community, through providing clinical leadership and innovative care for our clients.
This post provides an ideal opportunity for an existing Band 8a or Band 7 Clinical Psychologist looking to progress, or for someone who is newly qualified, to consolidate a range of clinical skills. The post affords the opportunity to progress from a Band 7 to a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist, following the successful completion of identified targets, based upon acquired skills and Agenda for Change job matching. We have a good track record of supporting such development within the service. We will also support with providing appropriate training opportunities suitable for the role.
For further information, please contact Dr Adam Harris (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on 01476 858257 or adam.harris3@nhs.net. Requests for flexible working will be considered.
Main duties of the job
You will support the provision of a specialist psychological service for adults with Learning Disabilities across 3 core pathways: mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health pathway.
Our psychologists primarily work on the mental health pathway, while also offering consultation and support to the other two pathways. We regularly support the service with the provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as well as evaluations/audits.
Communication skills are key as well as being able to liaise and work with external and partner agencies. We often provide training to external agencies to support our clinical interventions. Part of the role will also include the specialist identification and assessment of autism in adults. The service will provide all necessary training required to fulfil the role (which includes training in autism diagnostic tools, if needed).
You will receive regular clinical supervision from a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist. You should be able to provide clinical supervision to junior Psychologists as well as other members of the MDT. As a speciality we have good links with the local Trent DClinPsy programme and there is an expectation that we offer regular teaching and training placements to Clinical Psychologists in training.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide expert psychological services directly to adults with learning disabilities, including psychological assessment, formulation & intervention (direct & indirect), including management of risk.
- Work with a range of presenting problems related to LD/Autism. To develop, monitor and support interventions that will be applied by proxies (such as care workers).
- To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological, particularly with regard to the MDT.
- To provide consultation, guidance and advice to relevant significant others (family/carers). To provide clinical supervision to junior psychologists (Assistants & Trainees).
- To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with LD.
- To provide clinical leadership and advice to colleagues and other persons working with complex clients who have LD &/or Autism across the County.
- To provide inputs to the Trent DClinPsy training course including curriculum development, teaching and assessment.
- To participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services policies, via research, audit, service evaluation.
- 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, including exercising responsibility for managing the psychological resources.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide expert psychological services directly to adults with learning disabilities, including psychological assessment, formulation & intervention (direct & indirect), including management of risk.
- Work with a range of presenting problems related to LD/Autism. To develop, monitor and support interventions that will be applied by proxies (such as care workers).
- To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological, particularly with regard to the MDT.
- To provide consultation, guidance and advice to relevant significant others (family/carers). To provide clinical supervision to junior psychologists (Assistants & Trainees).
- To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with LD.
- To provide clinical leadership and advice to colleagues and other persons working with complex clients who have LD &/or Autism across the County.
- To provide inputs to the Trent DClinPsy training course including curriculum development, teaching and assessment.
- To participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services policies, via research, audit, service evaluation.
- 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, including exercising responsibility for managing the psychological resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society or equivalent qualification accredited by the BPS.
Desirable
- (To be achieved during tenure: Basic qualification in management (e.g., Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) level 3 certificate in first line management), or equivalent experience.)
Experience
Essential
- Training in clinical supervision of trainee and newly-qualified Clinical Psychologists.
- Training to a level equivalent to a PG Diploma in a clinical specialism that will have a positive impact on the existing team
Skills
Essential
- Post-qualification experience specialising in psychological services for autistic adults (with/without learning disabilities), to include experience of specialising in a particular area of psychology.
- Experience of providing clinical leadership, particularly with regard to other professions (e.g. nursing, MDTs).
- Experienced in working with individuals with other complex needs including developmental disorders, neurological disorders, mental illness, and combinations of these with learning disabilities (multiple diagnoses).
- Experienced in working with the full range of cognitive abilities from profound to mild LD
- Experienced in communicating with clients who have severe limitations in comprehension and expression
- Experienced in working with individuals who have multiple disabilities
- Experienced in working with individuals with challenging and very hostile behaviours.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society or equivalent qualification accredited by the BPS.
Desirable
- (To be achieved during tenure: Basic qualification in management (e.g., Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) level 3 certificate in first line management), or equivalent experience.)
Experience
Essential
- Training in clinical supervision of trainee and newly-qualified Clinical Psychologists.
- Training to a level equivalent to a PG Diploma in a clinical specialism that will have a positive impact on the existing team
Skills
Essential
- Post-qualification experience specialising in psychological services for autistic adults (with/without learning disabilities), to include experience of specialising in a particular area of psychology.
- Experience of providing clinical leadership, particularly with regard to other professions (e.g. nursing, MDTs).
- Experienced in working with individuals with other complex needs including developmental disorders, neurological disorders, mental illness, and combinations of these with learning disabilities (multiple diagnoses).
- Experienced in working with the full range of cognitive abilities from profound to mild LD
- Experienced in communicating with clients who have severe limitations in comprehension and expression
- Experienced in working with individuals who have multiple disabilities
- Experienced in working with individuals with challenging and very hostile behaviours.
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).
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).
