Job summary
Family Safeguarding Teams
Family Safeguarding Teams aim to keep the highest risk children and families in Lancashire together, where safe to do so, whilst improving health and educational outcomes for the children and reducing physical and emotional harm.
This is where you will have the ability to make a difference.
The teams are multi-disciplinary and are made up of social care practitioners and adult specialists working with children and parents in relation to domestic abuse, mental health and substance misuse. These specialists will be provided by the National Probation Service (domestic abuse), NHS (mental health) and CGL/WAWY (substance misuse). The teams will be supported by both the management team in LCC as well as line management from their own specialist function so you will be supported by the NHS, LCC and the teams that you work within. This is a new service and your well-being is as key as those to which you provide support.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Clinical Psychologist, you will be expected to;
- The Senior Clinical Psychologist will work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams and Services provided by adult specialists to parents/carers.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
- To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
- To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the nominated team(s).
- To work with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to plan and deliver training, MDT support and consultation. The post will be professionally linked to a large and supportive psychology network within the Trust. We also have strong links with the local Clinical Psychology doctorate programmes
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Job description
Job responsibilities
Family Safeguarding - Mental Health Session: Wednesday 24th February 2021 @ 12-1pm/5-6pm
Family Safeguarding - Mental Health Session this is a 1-hour event (x2) where we'll provide an overview of the new family safeguarding service and how the NHS mental health team (Practitioners & Psychologists) will be an integral part of this. You'll hear from those leading the service in both the NHS & LLC with the opportunity to ask questions at the end. This will be hosted over Microsoft Teams so if you're interested in attending then please contact Maxine.Blake@Lancashire.Gov.Uk for an invitation.
All About You
Passion you'll be passionate about making a difference to children, young people and families lives and taking a holistic approach both to their mental health support and how it relates to the other challenges that they may be facing you'll work in teams with other technical specialists all supporting the same families
Challenge this is a new service with new teams using a new approach - we're looking for someone to drive and deliver the changes that we're making whilst supporting a team of equally dedicated mental health professionals you'll have the ability to input in our service approach and bring fresh ideas to the table
Service Excellence will be a motivation and key driver for both your team and yourself as experts in delivering high quality specialist clinical psychology services and assessments; you'll remain creative and inspirational even on the tough days - encouraging support, focus and resilience across the team and ensuring they place their own well-being equally important as those in their care
Values driven you'll be working across two services, both with caring for people at the heart of what they do, there's a number of values which we hope we will share with you own; compassion, integrity, respect, excellence, accountability, support, innovation and collaboration it's about who you are, who we are and how we can work together to improve the lives of others
Interview Date: Thursday 18th March 2021 & Friday 19th March 2021
Job description
Job responsibilities
Family Safeguarding - Mental Health Session: Wednesday 24th February 2021 @ 12-1pm/5-6pm
Family Safeguarding - Mental Health Session this is a 1-hour event (x2) where we'll provide an overview of the new family safeguarding service and how the NHS mental health team (Practitioners & Psychologists) will be an integral part of this. You'll hear from those leading the service in both the NHS & LLC with the opportunity to ask questions at the end. This will be hosted over Microsoft Teams so if you're interested in attending then please contact Maxine.Blake@Lancashire.Gov.Uk for an invitation.
All About You
Passion you'll be passionate about making a difference to children, young people and families lives and taking a holistic approach both to their mental health support and how it relates to the other challenges that they may be facing you'll work in teams with other technical specialists all supporting the same families
Challenge this is a new service with new teams using a new approach - we're looking for someone to drive and deliver the changes that we're making whilst supporting a team of equally dedicated mental health professionals you'll have the ability to input in our service approach and bring fresh ideas to the table
Service Excellence will be a motivation and key driver for both your team and yourself as experts in delivering high quality specialist clinical psychology services and assessments; you'll remain creative and inspirational even on the tough days - encouraging support, focus and resilience across the team and ensuring they place their own well-being equally important as those in their care
Values driven you'll be working across two services, both with caring for people at the heart of what they do, there's a number of values which we hope we will share with you own; compassion, integrity, respect, excellence, accountability, support, innovation and collaboration it's about who you are, who we are and how we can work together to improve the lives of others
Interview Date: Thursday 18th March 2021 & Friday 19th March 2021
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oDoctorate 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.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAn increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
- oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of patient 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.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patient's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oDoctorate 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.
Knowledge
Essential
- oAn increased level of knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
- oDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- oEvidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS by completion of CPD log demonstrating a minimum of 40 hours per year
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- oExperience of working with a wide variety of patient 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.
- oExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patient's psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
