Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Principal Psychologist Clinical/Counselling

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Job summary

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Psychiatric Liaison services provide high quality mental health care to working age and older adults across emergency departments and acute wards within the acute general hospitals. Having secured additional funding to include Psychology within the teams, we are seeking an enthusiastic, innovative and committed person to develop this new role and to provide a range of evidence-based assessments and interventions to people using the service. We are hoping to recruit into two full time roles (37.5 hours each) one within Epsom General Hospital and the other post within the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford.

As a Trust we pride ourselves on our innovative and collaborative approach to providing the highest quality, person-centred care. We have a strong focus on staff development and support, with excellent leadership and clinical CPD offers both internally and through our relationships with academic institutions. The Health Service Journals coverage of our staff survey results identified the SABP as being in the top ten places to work, as recommended by staff.

All teams are accredited by the Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation network which ensures our commitment to offer best practice within liaison psychiatry services.

Please ensure that you state your preference for location (EGH/RSCH) within additional information.

Main duties of the job

Your own caseload will involve work with a wide range of working age and older adult clients presenting with both functional and/or organic problems across the hospital. As well as providing direct assessments and evidence-based interventions, you will be working closely with the Liaison MDT and physical health colleagues across the hospital, supporting them develop their understanding of mental health and to learn and embed more psychosocial approaches to the management of mental health difficulties.

In consultation with service leads, you will be responsible for developing the psychology offer within the hospital. You will be providing professional leadership and supervision to any Assistant and Trainee Psychologists within the service. Working with other senior leaders you will be working to continually innovate and improve the service.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country withing easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

14 October 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,079 to £67,177 a year Incl 5% Fringe HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9325-22-9673

Job locations

Epsom Ewell & St. Hellier Nhs Trust

Dorking Road

Epsom

Surrey

KT18 7EG

Royal Surrey County Hospital

Egerton Road

Guildford

Surrey

GU2 7XX

Job description

Job responsibilities

My job makes better lives.

By promoting health and independence for people who use our services and their carers/support staff by delivering high quality psychology assessments, formulation, interventions, and consultations. Providing clinical leadership, supervision and guidance to those providing psychological interventions.

Job Overview.

This role will be responsible for leading the psychology provision within the Psychiatric Liaison service, by ensuring relevant clinical supervision is provided to staff, standards of service provision are set, monitored and maintained and that people, who use the service, and their carers are involved in the service in the way they wish to be. This role will also deliver high quality psychology assessments, interventions and consultation within specialised services. Working with management teams on service development and evaluation. The service supports working age adults with a wide range of mental health difficulties, and to older people with mental health difficulties and/or dementia.

Qualifications required.

Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent

Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees

Additional academic clinical qualification relevant to area of work (Desirable)

Additional leadership/management study (Desirable)

Experience required.

Extensive post qualification clinical experience in relevant clinical setting

Experience of leading in clinical practice, service development or project work.

Experience of supervising trainees, assistant psychologists, qualified clinical/counselling psychologists and others providing psychological therapies

Experience of implementing change following audit and service evaluation

Demonstrable experience of developing complex formulations drawing on multiple psychological models

Experience of advising other professionals on complex psychological issues and risk

Suitable for someone who is interested in and passionate about providing high quality leadership and psychological support to people using our service and their carers within the specified area of work.

Key Responsibilities.

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of clinical work and care. To maintain high standards of care in all areas of practice in accordance with the HCPC Code of Conduct, professional guidelines and Trust Policies and Procedures. To act within the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act (2005). To be aware of and implement Safeguarding Adult and Child Protection Policies, Procedures and legislation.

To plan and deliver a highly specialist psychology service (in leadership or advanced therapy role) and to oversee its clinical governance.

To be responsible for the professional leadership and continued development of a team and/or service area.

To lead in the supervision and contribute to Individual Performance Review/Appraisal of psychology staff, as required.

To ensure that the healthcare needs of people using services are communicated to and work in partnership with service commissioners and other healthcare providers for the best outcomes. To positively contribute to Trust and divisional developments in relation to psychology practice. To advocate and represent the service.

To be responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate policies, protocols and care pathways.

Contribute to appropriate staff recruitment and contribute to the wider strategic plans regarding psychology recruitment.

To ensure that the needs of people with protected characteristics are addressed within local services and future developments.

To demonstrate highly specialist expertise and specialist psychological skills such as specialist psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic interventions and consultation to support people with complex needs

To act as supervisor/teacher in teaching, facilitating and supporting pre-registration students and junior personnel and to participate in the audit of educational placements. To participate in new staff induction.

To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognised standards - in partnership with people who use services and carers.

To lead in developing and conducting clinical audit and research, maintaining current knowledge of research findings and development within the relevant area of practice.

To influence and develop team cultures that support and encourage innovation, creativity, partnership working and curiosity.

To practice within a Positive Behaviour Support and trauma informed care framework