Job summary
The post holder will hold a strategic position as Clinical Lead for the unit. They will have a key role in maintaining a psychosocial environment; ensuring that the unit adheres to the theoretical principles of the PIPE model.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will contribute to staff development by offering consultancy and supervision. They themselves will be offered peer supervision along with the other clinical leads of the PIPE pilots.
The post holder will ensure that the delivery of psychological aspects of the service is compliant with current and emerging policy and delivery arrangements. They will also provide general expert advice in relation to the risk assessment and management of offenders.
Post holders are required to proactively promote offender management policy in all activities and behaviours e.g. promote diversity, decency, safety and reducing reoffending agendas.
There will be requirement to contribute to research, consultancy and training activities as deemed appropriate by their Line manager in conjunction with National PIPE leads. This will include facilitating the national evaluation of the PIPE field test services, and liaising with the Personality Disorder Policy Team within Rehabilitation Services Group (RSG).
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure that the delivery of psychological aspects of the service is compliant with currentand emerging policy and delivery arrangements. They will also provide expert advice inrelation to the risk assessment and management of offenders.
To proactively promote offender management policy in all activities and behaviours e.g.promote diversity, decency, safety and reducing reoffending agendas.
To contribute to the identification of research, consultancy and training activities as deemedappropriate by the Primrose clinical lead. This will include facilitating the national evaluationof the PIPE field test services, and liaising with the Personality Disorder Policy Team withinRehabilitation Services Group (RSG).
Job description
Job responsibilities
To ensure that the delivery of psychological aspects of the service is compliant with currentand emerging policy and delivery arrangements. They will also provide expert advice inrelation to the risk assessment and management of offenders.
To proactively promote offender management policy in all activities and behaviours e.g.promote diversity, decency, safety and reducing reoffending agendas.
To contribute to the identification of research, consultancy and training activities as deemedappropriate by the Primrose clinical lead. This will include facilitating the national evaluationof the PIPE field test services, and liaising with the Personality Disorder Policy Team withinRehabilitation Services Group (RSG).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- HPC registration as a psychotherapist or clinical/forensic psychologist with Chartered Status
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
- Trained in care co-ordination
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- A minimum of two years experience of working with offenders and working within the criminal justice system
- Experience of providing psychologically informed consultation and supervision to nonpsychology staff within non-health service organisations
- 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
- Teaching, training and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
- Research and development
- Quality and service improvement and evaluation
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of joint working with and knowledge of the role and remit of Probation services and approved premises
- Experience of representing the profession within the context of multi-professional care
SKILLS:
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Working level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment and risk management.
- Clinical governance.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Audit and research methodology.
- Social Inclusion agenda.
- Skills in assessing and managing potentially hazardous clinical situations
- Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT or other relevant psychological models of intervention
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT or other relevant psychological models of intervention.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely 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 meet the travel requirements of the post
Desirable
- Experience of working within a Multi-cultural framework.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
- HPC registration as a psychotherapist or clinical/forensic psychologist with Chartered Status
- Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
- Trained in care co-ordination
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Pre-qualification training and Qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
Essential
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and formulation and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
- A minimum of two years experience of working with offenders and working within the criminal justice system
- Experience of providing psychologically informed consultation and supervision to nonpsychology staff within non-health service organisations
- 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
- Teaching, training and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
- Research and development
- Quality and service improvement and evaluation
Desirable
- Experience of teaching and training
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of joint working with and knowledge of the role and remit of Probation services and approved premises
- Experience of representing the profession within the context of multi-professional care
SKILLS:
Essential
- Doctoral level knowledge and skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups
- Working level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Evidence- based practice relevant to the role
- Risk assessment and risk management.
- Clinical governance.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Audit and research methodology.
- Social Inclusion agenda.
- Skills in assessing and managing potentially hazardous clinical situations
- Skill and experience in using IT systems including word processing, email and local electronic patient information systems.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT or other relevant psychological models of intervention
- Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of CBT or other relevant psychological models of intervention.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health services.
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely 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 meet the travel requirements of the post
Desirable
- Experience of working within a Multi-cultural framework.
- A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multiprofessional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
- Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
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).
