Job summary
We are looking for a compassionate Clinical Psychologist to join our award winning Radcliffe Place. This is an exciting opportunity to provide clinicalleadership for our Admission and Avoidance service for people with a learning disability (LD) with or without autism, which is currently commissioned to support four people at any one time.Radcliffe Place was nominated along with 500 other teams and won the GM Health and Care Greater Manchester Health 2024 'Innovation Champion'award 'Great Innovation' Pennine Care award 2023.
Main duties of the job
This post offers the opportunity to provide highly specialised clinicalpsychology services to adults with learning disabilities with complexpsychological needs, challenging behaviour, autism and high risk/forensicpresentations. The post-holder will be instrumental in supporting thedevelopment of a psychologically minded workforce and will work within an integrated multi-professional health and social care team. The service is an innovative service and offers a hospital avoidance unit for peopleexperiencing a period of crisis due to their learning disability needs. Thepostholder will be part of a wider psychology team who sit across our fivelearning disability community teams.We offer clinical supervision and excellent opportunities for continuingprofessional development and involvement with service development, audit and research projects. You will be part of an expanding, energetic, innovativeLD Care Hub team that values coproduction and working alongside people with lived experience and promotes trauma informed care.To arrange a phone call about the role, please contact Vicky (Dr VickyPenketh, Consultant Clinical Psychologist) either via email atv.penketh1@nhs.net or by phone on 07745 108 857
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disabilityservices, both inpatient and in the community.The NHS annual staff survey results show that we are the most improvedmental health and learning disability trust in the country for being seen as a good place to work. We were ranked as the best place to work out of all the mental health and learning disability trusts in the Northwest.We will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medicaland Dental staff.2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance3. Access to Continued Professional Development4. Involvement in improvement and research activities5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travelIf you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined, we would love you to apply.We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership inthe LD Care Hub. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda.We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; thateveryone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactivelychallenge injustices, and publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full job description
The post holder will work within the Learning Disability Crisis Response Unit predominately on the Radcliffe site within the borough of Bury and will also work across the footprint of Pennine Care as the clinical lead for the newly established service. Our new service aims to provide a therapeutic model of care to people aged 16-25 years with a Learning Disability with or without Autism who are experiencing a period of crisis by the provision of a service to reduce hospital admissions and offer of a de-escalation programme.The role of the Principal Psychologist postholder includes the responsibility for the promotion, management and implementation of a psychologically informed model of care. The postholder will provide support, clinical leadership and guidance within the multi-disciplinary teams around the delivery of a trauma informed service.The postholder will spend an allocation of their time in providing support to the care hubs Consultant Clinical Psychologist in their role as the lead for practitioner psychologists working within the Learning Disabilities care hub.The new service will be offered to people with a learning disability with or without autism across the geographical footprint of Greater Manchester.The learning disabilities care hub consists of community learning disability teams spread across the five localities of Pennine Care (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside and Stockport) primarily to adults aged 18+ years and with some provision to children and young people. The postholder will take an active role in working with the teams in service development and engagement by supporting:Service improvementsDevelopment and delivery of trainingConducting research, audit and evaluation.Development of treatment pathways
The post holder will work to support the wider clinical activities of psychologists within the care hub and provide cover and support across the localities in the event of staff absence. The post holder will provide clinical supervision duties to both qualified and unqualified psychologists. The post holder will also play an active role in the promotion of psychology and representation of practitioner psychologists across the care hub and wider systems
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full job description
The post holder will work within the Learning Disability Crisis Response Unit predominately on the Radcliffe site within the borough of Bury and will also work across the footprint of Pennine Care as the clinical lead for the newly established service. Our new service aims to provide a therapeutic model of care to people aged 16-25 years with a Learning Disability with or without Autism who are experiencing a period of crisis by the provision of a service to reduce hospital admissions and offer of a de-escalation programme.The role of the Principal Psychologist postholder includes the responsibility for the promotion, management and implementation of a psychologically informed model of care. The postholder will provide support, clinical leadership and guidance within the multi-disciplinary teams around the delivery of a trauma informed service.The postholder will spend an allocation of their time in providing support to the care hubs Consultant Clinical Psychologist in their role as the lead for practitioner psychologists working within the Learning Disabilities care hub.The new service will be offered to people with a learning disability with or without autism across the geographical footprint of Greater Manchester.The learning disabilities care hub consists of community learning disability teams spread across the five localities of Pennine Care (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Tameside and Stockport) primarily to adults aged 18+ years and with some provision to children and young people. The postholder will take an active role in working with the teams in service development and engagement by supporting:Service improvementsDevelopment and delivery of trainingConducting research, audit and evaluation.Development of treatment pathways
The post holder will work to support the wider clinical activities of psychologists within the care hub and provide cover and support across the localities in the event of staff absence. The post holder will provide clinical supervision duties to both qualified and unqualified psychologists. The post holder will also play an active role in the promotion of psychology and representation of practitioner psychologists across the care hub and wider systems
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of specialist assessment and treatment of adult clients and those with psychological difficulties in an inpatient setting.
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability.
- 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. working within inpatient adult multidisciplinary teams
- 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 (i.e. an approach based upon the provision of direct care, and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work.
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 psychological 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 of psychological approaches to recovery.
- Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with complex mental health problems.
- 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 communication 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 multidisciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
- Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
- Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, 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 (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual 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.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
- Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Desirable
- Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post qualification experience of specialist assessment and treatment of adult clients and those with psychological difficulties in an inpatient setting.
- Experience of working with people with a learning disability.
- 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. working within inpatient adult multidisciplinary teams
- 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 (i.e. an approach based upon the provision of direct care, and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work.
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 psychological 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 of psychological approaches to recovery.
- Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach
- Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with complex mental health problems.
- 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 communication 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 multidisciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
- Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
- Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, 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 (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual 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.
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).
