Job summary
To provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to patients open to Hampshire At Risk Mental State (ARMS) team. ARMS is integrated within the HIOW EIP Service. The post holder will be required to embed new ways of working and a trauma informed approach with the view to continued service development and evaluation. As a senior clinician, the post-holder will:
Ensure the systematic provision and governance of high-quality specialist psychological interventions for individuals and their families/ carers/support networks accessing the ARMS team.
Provide psychological assessment and therapy to people referred to ARMS. The post holder will provide specialist treatment for complex cases and plan and prioritise their own clinical workload.
Provide specialist clinical supervision and support to psychological therapists and other members of the clinical team who provide psychologically based care and treatment within this setting.
Ensure systems are in place and working effectively for the clinical and professional supervision and support of all other practitioners within ARMS, for which the post holder has designated professional responsibility. This will include a role in effective recruitment, professional appraisal, and the identification of CPD needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for a number of areas each of which are outlined below. The post holders main focus is on the clinical delivery of ARMS across Hampshire, including provision of clinical supervision to ARMS practitioners. A caseload of patients will be maintained.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
When appropriate identify repeating patterns of crisis and advise ways of breaking the cycle, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the individuals presenting and underlying problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings
To be responsible for implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups. This will be employed both within and across teams, individually and in synthesis. The post-holder will adjust and refine psychological formulations, drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist .
- Or
- Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP, ACAT, UKCP or similar body
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Desirable
- Clinical Supervision Training and experience
- HEE approved training in CBT for psychosis
- HEE approved training in Family Intervention for psychosis
- Knowledge of EI and At-Risk Mental State service standards
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and / or in patient settings.
- In depth 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.
- In depth experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist /psychological therapist at a specialist level.
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for individuals psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/BABCP
Desirable
- Experience of the application of specialist CBT and family work for complex cases.
- Experience of working with psychosis.
- Experience of conducting research that contributes to theoretical models and treatment of psychosis
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Willingness and ability to work flexibly if required, for example, if constraints on office space.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration
- of this service with the wider health care system.
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively.
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to clients and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving service user experience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of, and a commitment to the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation.
- Full driving licence and access to vehicle for work purposes, due to need to travel across bases as required.
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.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist .
- Or
- Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP, ACAT, UKCP or similar body
- Post-qualification training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Desirable
- Clinical Supervision Training and experience
- HEE approved training in CBT for psychosis
- HEE approved training in Family Intervention for psychosis
- Knowledge of EI and At-Risk Mental State service standards
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and / or in patient settings.
- In depth 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.
- In depth experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist /psychological therapist at a specialist level.
- Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for individuals psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/BABCP
Desirable
- Experience of the application of specialist CBT and family work for complex cases.
- Experience of working with psychosis.
- Experience of conducting research that contributes to theoretical models and treatment of psychosis
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Willingness and ability to work flexibly if required, for example, if constraints on office space.
- High level of enthusiasm and motivation.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to hold the stress of others.
- Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration
- of this service with the wider health care system.
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English, adequate to enable the post holder to carry out the role effectively.
- Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to clients and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving service user experience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of, and a commitment to the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation.
- Full driving licence and access to vehicle for work purposes, due to need to travel across bases as required.
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
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).
