Applied Psychologist

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for a change?

This is an opportunity for an experienced clinical psychologist who wants to be part of a new and developing service which nationally has proven to produce positive outcomes for child and their families.

The Family Safeguarding team takes a multi-disciplinary approach to working with families and includes Children and Families Social Workers and Family Support Practitioners, working alongside Adult Specialist Workers to help and support in relation to issues associated with parental domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental ill-health. Family Safeguarding teams work with children aged pre-birth to 17 where the issues relate to abuse and neglect of the children by their families.

Main duties of the job

This is a clinical leadership role. Visionary and strategic in approach, you will champion a culture based on principles of recovery, compassion, choice and personalised care, providing a role model to the rest of the team. You will be committed to providing evidence-based practice and will have the opportunity to link with other psychologists nationally working within Family Safeguarding.

You will help us develop and evaluate the delivery of psychological interventions and psychologically informed practice across the team. You will offer supervision, training and reflective practice to staff within the service. You will also provide direct clinical work including specialist psychological assessment, formulation, group and individual therapy.

You will have close links with the adult mental psychology services and be line managed within this.

We promote our staff's professional development, including through supervision and training.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to combine all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services, with the plan to create a new larger, more integrated and accessible organisation.

The transformation will happen in stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning across in May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent NHS Trust services is expected in late 2024, when our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Date posted

12 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

348-SW-5752

Job locations

Southampton City Council

Civic Centre

Southampton

Hampshire

SO14 7LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist

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.