Job summary
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and committed Clinical Psychologist to join our Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. The newly appointed clinician will join our multi-disciplinary team, consisting of Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapist, Community Learning Disability Nurses and Support Workers.We provide a wide range of services to both adults and children with intellectual disabilities and mental health, forensic histories, challenging behaviour and dementia, amongst other areas of work.The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with individuals, their carers, family and professional colleagues to enhance health and well-being and prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges, health inequalities and promote positive health outcomes.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work with both children and adults and will be involved in a range of clinical activities, including assessments, interventions and management of significant risk in the community.Helping those around an individual to make sense of their difficulties including the contribution of neurodevelopmental factors, mental health, systemic factors and trauma.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers within the North Tyneside area.
To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
To be responsible for the supervision of junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to individuals with intellectual disabilities, their families and carers within the North Tyneside area.
To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
To be responsible for the supervision of junior psychologists, assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral degree or equivalent qualification as accredited by the BPS as qualification for the independent practice of applied psychology in the NHS.
- Eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychology status.
- Clinical supervision.
- Clinical training.
Desirable
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychology practice.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in the field of learning disability.
- Experience of individual direct clinical work with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with a full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching and training other professional groups.
- Working knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of non-aversive behavioural assessments and interventions e.g. La Vigna model.
- Knowledge, theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
Qualifications
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral degree or equivalent qualification as accredited by the BPS as qualification for the independent practice of applied psychology in the NHS.
- Eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychology status.
- Clinical supervision.
- Clinical training.
Desirable
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychology practice.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in the field of learning disability.
- Experience of individual direct clinical work with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with a full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching and training other professional groups.
- Working knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS.
Desirable
- Experience of clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of non-aversive behavioural assessments and interventions e.g. La Vigna model.
- Knowledge, theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
Qualifications
Essential
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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).
