Job summary
If you are passionate about psychology within adult community mental health and being part of supportive multidisciplinary teams, this is the perfect role for you.
The Lincolnshire CMHTs are vibrant, collaborative and supportive. We are motivated to deliver the best service whilst prioritising staff well-being and job satisfaction. We strongly promote CPD and pride ourselves on being a flexible, compassionate employer. We welcome conversations about full/part time, flexible/remote working opportunities.
You will be welcomed into a highly regarded CMHT and the wider multidisciplinary locality as well as a highly skilled and dynamic Psychology division. The vision for this post is for the post-holder to take up the role of team psychologist within the Skegness CMHT, whilst also providing clinical work for the Lincoln-based CMHTs. This arrangement allows flexibility regarding whether the post is based in Lincoln or Skegness, depending on preference.
We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist who already has the competence and experience relevant to a Band 8a position, or a Psychologist who meets the qualification, training and competency for a Band 7 post and can achieve the 8a position through a preceptorship programme.
For further information please contact Eleanor Duke (eleanor.duke4@nhs.net, East Locality Service Manager) or Dr Amy Richardson (amy.richardson24@nhs.net, Lead Psychologist for the East Localities).
Main duties of the job
The full job description and person specification are attached.
The primary hopes for the role are to:
Support the embedding of psychologically minded assessment and interventions within our community mental health services.
To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build a trauma informed understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways that meet their individual needs.
To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.
To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.
To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
To support co-produced service development within the teams and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.
To provide clinical supervision for Trainee psychologists and support the development of new psychologically informed roles.
To hold a dedicated caseload of individuals allocated from the Lincoln-based teams to provide psychological interventions.
Newly qualified applicants will be considered for a developmental Band 7 to 8a role over a defined period with a supportive action plan, increased supervision and development
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be a team psychologist and integrated member of a multi-professional mental health service.
To work as an autonomous psychologist responsible for their own work and carry a personal caseload of team clients.
To complete secondary mental health care psychological assessments, formulations, interventions, and evaluations, both independently and alongside the team.
To provide formal clinical supervision to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists and to provide a consultation space for the psychology resource within the team.
To support the clinical work of other professions within the team as required.
To provide psychological expertise and consultation to other agencies and professions regarding team clients.
To provide clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning and co-ordination alongside the team manager.
To engage in psychological research activities, using research design, execution, and analysis relevant to the team and service development.
To take part in CPD and training, adhere to professional and Trust guidelines, and be compliant with Trust mandatory training.
To place an emphasis on co-production and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values clients and their carers and the core values of the Trust.
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust. This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be a team psychologist and integrated member of a multi-professional mental health service.
To work as an autonomous psychologist responsible for their own work and carry a personal caseload of team clients.
To complete secondary mental health care psychological assessments, formulations, interventions, and evaluations, both independently and alongside the team.
To provide formal clinical supervision to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists and to provide a consultation space for the psychology resource within the team.
To support the clinical work of other professions within the team as required.
To provide psychological expertise and consultation to other agencies and professions regarding team clients.
To provide clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning and co-ordination alongside the team manager.
To engage in psychological research activities, using research design, execution, and analysis relevant to the team and service development.
To take part in CPD and training, adhere to professional and Trust guidelines, and be compliant with Trust mandatory training.
To place an emphasis on co-production and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values clients and their carers and the core values of the Trust.
You may occasionally be asked to undertake such other duties that are deemed necessary in order to support business continuity within the Trust. This will only include tasks where you are appropriately trained.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate (doctoral or masters degree) level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic psychology that confers eligibility for HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of evidence-based psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Completed STAR supervisor training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment, formulation, treatment, and evaluation of adults in secondary care mental health services
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with a range of 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
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-professional team
- Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model
Skills
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Knowledge of professional guidelines set out by the HCPC.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving client experience.
- Enthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team member.
- An ability to travel between sites as required, without the use of public transport.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate (doctoral or masters degree) level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic psychology that confers eligibility for HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of evidence-based psychological therapy.
Desirable
- Completed STAR supervisor training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of psychological assessment, formulation, treatment, and evaluation of adults in secondary care mental health services
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with a range of 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
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
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-professional team
- Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model
Skills
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Knowledge of professional guidelines set out by the HCPC.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving client experience.
- Enthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team member.
- An ability to travel between sites as required, without the use of public transport.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Within Skegness Community Mental Health Team/Lincoln Community Health Team
Lincoln
LN1 1FS
Employer's website
https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
