Principle Clinical Psychologist Inpatient services

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The post holder will be responsible for the promotion and management of a high quality psychology service across the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) inpatient services. The post holder will provide direct face-to-face clinical sessions and support the psychosocial intervention work of colleagues via the provision of supervision, consultation and training. The post-holder will have a key role in supporting further development of personal recovery-focused and trauma informed care approach across the service.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the PICU
• To provide a high quality clinical psychology service to adults presenting with complex mental health
• To provide highly specialised psychological assessment and therapy while also offering advice and consultation on service users psychological care to other colleagues and different professional
• To contribute to audit, policy/service development, and research. To propose and implement policy changes within the areas
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trusts policies and
• To provide clinical supervision to individuals and groups of staff working across the inpatient services, including psychology

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Clinical:

• To be responsible for the provision of psychological services across the psychiatric intensive care inpatient
• To carry a caseload and to undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various
• To develop psychological formulations of complex mental health problems to inform the teams treatment and management of these
• To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies for people with severe and/or complex mental health problems (and, when appropriate, their families or carers).
• To harness and support the psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation and liaison work and opportunities for co-working.
• To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision
• To contribute to the appropriate risk assessment and risk management by providing training and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and
• To promote team working and constructive relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• To collaborate with unit managers on developing best practice in psychological care for the unit
• To promote trauma informed care across the

Teaching, Training, and Supervision:

• To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensure that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such
• To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with particular client groups and /or in management through further specialist supervision and experience supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development
• To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical and line management supervision to psychology staff working across the inpatient
• To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically based
• To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate.
• To maintain and develop skills in the area of pre-and post-graduate training and clinical

• To contribute to personal development / performance reviews for clinical psychology staff across inpatient services.
• To actively participate in continuing professional development involving a variety of activities including attending seminars, conferences, reading and courses.
• To be responsible for maintaining up to date records of any CPD or mandatory training activities

Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development:

• To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need
• To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the team, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials used in the assessment and treatment of adults, families and
• To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within inpatient
• To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, clinical associates in psychology, and qualified clinical

Research and Service Evaluation:

• To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician in the evaluation, monitoring and development of aspects of the teams clinical practice, 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
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking
• To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their

Service User, Carer and Stakeholder Involvement:

• To promote a personal recovery-focused service philosophy for service users and
• Ensure, as far as practicable, the full involvement of service users and where appropriate, relatives and carers in the assessment of service user needs and the formulation and review of their care
• Promote user and carer involvement in the recruitment and training of
• Promote user and carer involvement in the evaluation and development of services.

This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• Post Graduate doctoral training in Clinical Psychology
• Current registration as a clinical Psychologist with HCPP

Desirable

• Completion of further post graduate training with Psychological therapies 9e.g. BBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable post qualification experience of specialist assessment and treatment of adult clients and those with psychological difficulties in an inpatient setting
• Demonstrable post qualification experience of working with complex mental health problems, including distressing psychosis, problems associated with complex relational and emotional needs, and severe depression, anxiety and trauma
• Demonstrable experience of working with people experiencing a suicidal crisis
• Demonstrable experience of working within adult inpatient MDT
• Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role
• Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, Psychological therapists or other core health professions
• Demonstrable experience of providing teaching / training upon clinical interventions
• Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services within a form of stepped-care framework

Desirable

• Experience in Clinical leadership
• Ability to demonstrate further specialist clinical experience and training
• Experience of audit and service evaluation within psychological therapy services
• Research experience within an area relevant to work within an adult service
• Demonstrable experience of the application of Psychlogical therapy in diverse cultural and ethnic contexts

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies within inpatient services
• evidence of post qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS or other professional body
• up to date knowledge of the needs of people with complex mental health problems and psychological approaches to recovery
• Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
• Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, use of word-processing, e-mail and internet siftware

Desirable

• Well developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised Psychological therapies and approaches for adults with complex mental health problems therapies and approaches
• Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention
• skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Well developed, effective communiction skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and /or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, Carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies
• Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans
• ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work
• ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility in a collaborative MDT environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression
• ability to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions
• ability to work and communicate highly sensitive and contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere and to overcome barriers to acceptance / psychological resistance to potentially threatening information
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations
• 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

Desirable

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials, suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to demonstrate an area of special interest /skill in therapeutic intervention
• Ability to move equipment (e.g, bulky equipment) between office base and other work settings

Work Related Circumstances

Essential

• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity Policies
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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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).