Job summary
Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to join a service at a time of exciting change?
Here at CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles. Various prominent leadership roles within the Trust are currently held by Psychologists including: Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Information Officer, & Clinical Directors. We facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas. The professional group is led by our Director of Therapies and our Chief Psychologist, both Consultant Clinical Psychologists.
We are looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic psychologists and therapists who are committed to delivering patient-focused care and treatment. We are looking for well-rounded and experienced practitioners. Our staffwork pro-actively, with confidence, motivation and initiativeWe find that they are oftenflexible,robust and resourceful and able to manage the challenges of working in an environment which can be demanding.
We prioritize collaboration within our team and with our community partnerships, so we are hoping to find candidates who have the required communication and interpersonal skills that will allow them to thrive when working within their own team and with external partner organizations, in order to provide a meaningful service to the diverse populations we serve.
Main duties of the job
The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) is a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) of mental health professionals providing a 24-hour, 7 day per week service to people experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis. The team provides an alternative to acute hospital admission by delivering intensive community-based interventions. Where a hospital admission does occur, the CRHTT will assist in shortening the inpatient stay by facilitating early discharge and support back to the community. The post holder will develop and lead the psychology offer within the team, ensuring all care is delivered in a trauma informed care and recovery oriented way. They will contribute to the assessment of patient needs and be responsible for psychological formulation and care planning as well as the delivery of psychological interventions. They will also offer training, supervision and consultation to the team and other professionals. As part of the senior leadership in the team the post holder will be expected to be part of service development, innovation, the accreditation process and liaison with other parts of the system.
The post holder will need to be a qualified and registered therapist or psychologist , with the HCPC or equivalent.
If your application is successful, you will receive regular supervision and support. You will also be linked in with Trust - Wide psychological professions initiatives and events.
About us
CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ in line with our values, our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries. With us, you will get -
A Trust committed to staff personal development, with a trust wide culture change and leadership programme that has staff wellbeing at its core.
An opportunity to work for one of the top 10NHS employers
Flexible working
Variety of work
Access to a variety of CPD opportunities
We encourage staff input and ideas in relation to moving services forward, improving care pathways and meeting the client group's needs.
As a Trust we are committed to investing in our staff through a range of initiatives, both profession-specific and organisation wide. Psychological professions staff are able to access a range of trust-wide CPD initiatives. We have partnered with Bespoke and Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions we commission as part of CNWL CPD programme for Psychological Professions. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.
Take a look at our dedicated website for lots of useful information
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https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work/work-within-mental-health-services-and-psychological-therapies-milton-keynes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see individual job descriptions for information as to each role. If candidates are interested in more than one role, please do contact the Lead Psychologist, as there may be opportunities to blend roles or work across more than one team depending on interest and experience.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see individual job descriptions for information as to each role. If candidates are interested in more than one role, please do contact the Lead Psychologist, as there may be opportunities to blend roles or work across more than one team depending on interest and experience.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligibility for: - registration with the Health and Social Care Professions Council as an Applied Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-Doctoral training in clinical approaches relevant to work with complex and severe mental health difficulties such a 3rd wave cognitive behavioural therapies or systemic work.
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in health or neuro psychology, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post Doctorate Diploma in a psychotherapeutic approach
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience of working in mental health settings, including specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings, adult and older adult.
- 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Post qualification experience of working with adults affected by psychological trauma.
- Experience of line management and provision of clinical supervision to other professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient or crisis settings, working with a range of age ranges, cultures and clinical groups.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligibility for: - registration with the Health and Social Care Professions Council as an Applied Psychologist
Desirable
- Post-Doctoral training in clinical approaches relevant to work with complex and severe mental health difficulties such a 3rd wave cognitive behavioural therapies or systemic work.
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in health or neuro psychology, research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
- Post Doctorate Diploma in a psychotherapeutic approach
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience of working in mental health settings, including specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings, adult and older adult.
- 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 including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Post qualification experience of working with adults affected by psychological trauma.
- Experience of line management and provision of clinical supervision to other professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of working in acute mental health inpatient or crisis settings, working with a range of age ranges, cultures and clinical groups.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
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
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).
