Job summary
The Lancashire Resilience Hub is a newly established service that was initially set up to provide support for members of the wider Integrated Care System (ICS) as well as their immediate family members who are suffering from psychological trauma or other psychological difficulties e.g., bereavement, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus of the service continues to be on the impact of Covid but also supporting staff experiencing a wider range of difficulties which are impacting on the psychological and emotional well-being. In addition to the individual support offered to ICS staff members the Resilience Hub also contribute to enhancing system-wide resilience and the well-being of the ICS workforce.
The Resilience Hub is hosted by the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of the Integrated Care System and work very closely with a range of services such as the Mental Health Helpline, IAPT Primary Care Services and secondary care services as well as other Occupational Health and Well-Being services across the ICS footprint.
Open to psychological professions.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to make confident clinical and managerial contributions to the service, which will include the following with multi-disciplinary support:
- Being responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality specialist psychological service to clients within a designated area of responsibility.
- Supervising and supporting psychological assessment and therapy provided by other psychologists, psychological therapists and other clinical members of the team who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
- Working autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the designated area of responsibility.
- Utilising research skills, audit, policy and service development and research and implement policy changes within the areas served by the team/service in agreement with the relevant manager.
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Open to psychological professions
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
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
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.
- Core professional qualification and significant experience together with a postgraduate diploma in CBT and/or EMDR training Parts 1,2 and 3
- Accreditation with relevant professional body
Skills
Essential
- 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 non-professional groups
- Formal training in supervision of other psychological practitioners
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 4 years experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or accredited CBT and/or EMDR therapist.
- Post-qualification experience of delivering trauma-focused CBT (TFCBT) and/or EMDR (level 1, 2 & 3).
- Experience of post- qualification specialist PTSD psychological assessment and treatment of clients with PTSD or other trauma- related presentations.
- 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.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client'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
- 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.
- Core professional qualification and significant experience together with a postgraduate diploma in CBT and/or EMDR training Parts 1,2 and 3
- Accreditation with relevant professional body
Skills
Essential
- 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 non-professional groups
- Formal training in supervision of other psychological practitioners
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 4 years experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or accredited CBT and/or EMDR therapist.
- Post-qualification experience of delivering trauma-focused CBT (TFCBT) and/or EMDR (level 1, 2 & 3).
- Experience of post- qualification specialist PTSD psychological assessment and treatment of clients with PTSD or other trauma- related presentations.
- 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.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client'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.
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).
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.
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).
