Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Clinical Psychologist PIER Early Intervention

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Band 8a Clinical Psychologist to become a key part of our established and supportive PIER Early Intervention team, part of our Psychosis Pathway. This Pathway is a key part of the dynamic and evolving Psychology and Psychological Therapies strategy which is at the heart of LPT's transformation process.

You will work closely with our 8b Leads to support our Assistant Psychologist and Trainees. You will be based at Merlyn Vaz Health and Social Centre but will travel county wide to see clients in their homes, community venues and hospital settings.

LPT is keen to develop psychologically informed practice throughout our services and you will support a psychologically minded MDT to use 5P formulation and Decider Skills to work creatively with complex clients with psychosis.

You will be joining a multi skilled Psychosis Pathway of Psychologists, CBT Therapists and Systemic Family Therapists offering a range of family and individual interventions including CBTp, BFT, CFT, REBT and Open Dialogue and opportunities for further training would be strongly encouraged and supported.

Within the Psychosis Pathway we are striving to strengthen the psychological interventions for psychosis across all services and settings and so there will be scope to train and joint work with staff working with clients at all points of their psychosis journey including ARMS, Assertive Outreach, Crisis and Home Treatment, Community Teams and In-Patient teams.

Main duties of the job

You will carry a caseload and work within a multi professional and recovery-oriented framework to provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy for service-users their carers and families within PIER.

You will provide supervision, consultancy and clinical support to MDT colleagues, Assistant Psychologists and Trainees within PIER and the wider Psychosis Pathway.

You will facilitate training, development and application of agreed models of psychological, psychosocial and psycho-educational interventions as needed.

You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures.

You will contribute as an experienced clinician to MDT and Psychosis Pathway meetings to ensure the effective delivery of high quality, responsive psychological therapies which meet NCAP therapy targets, support LPT transformation plans and help to shape a psychologically informed service wide Psychosis Pathway.

You will utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by PIER and provide clinical placements for Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Date posted

03 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9313-23-0833

Job locations

Merlyn Vaz Health & Social Care Centre

1 Spinney Hill Road

Leicester

LE5 3GH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the uploaded job description and person specification for the post of Clinical Psychologist in PIER Band 8a.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the uploaded job description and person specification for the post of Clinical Psychologist in PIER Band 8a.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

DClinPsych or postgraduate equivalent in Clinical Psychology.

Desirable

Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in or day patient units.
A minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting. Experience of teaching, training, reflective practice and/or supervision.

Desirable

Experience of working from a strengths based, participative and recovery focussed preventative perspective.
Experience of working with individuals experiencing psychosis.
The ability to analyse policy in terms of its impact on neighbourhoods and those most marginalised through multiple disadvantage.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

DClinPsych or postgraduate equivalent in Clinical Psychology.

Desirable

Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in or day patient units.
A minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist, or an alternative agreed by the Head of Speciality. Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency setting. Experience of teaching, training, reflective practice and/or supervision.

Desirable

Experience of working from a strengths based, participative and recovery focussed preventative perspective.
Experience of working with individuals experiencing psychosis.
The ability to analyse policy in terms of its impact on neighbourhoods and those most marginalised through multiple disadvantage.

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

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

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Merlyn Vaz Health & Social Care Centre

1 Spinney Hill Road

Leicester

LE5 3GH

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Merlyn Vaz Health & Social Care Centre

1 Spinney Hill Road

Leicester

LE5 3GH

Employer's website

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