Job summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and enthusiastic clinical psychologist/psychotherapist/CBT psychotherapist/counselling psychotherapist to join us in the North Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). This is an excellent opportunity to gain significant experience of clinical leadership in a changing healthcare system, working as part of an experienced, supportive multidisciplinary team. You will provide senior leadership and line management to a range of psychological professions including peer support workers. You will also offer a psychological service to service users and their families and joint and indirect clinical and consultation work to the team and other services. There will also be involvement in supporting new evidence-based therapeutic treatments such a Structured Clinical Management. You will need to have had significant experience of working with serious mental illness, including psychosis, bipolar disorder and personality and complex trauma. You will possess an enthusiasm for working productively with multidisciplinary teams. The post involves carrying out highly complex psychological assessments and interventions, and leading and advising on clinical pathways for people with complex needs. The post also involves direct clinical work with service users and their families/carers providing psychological interventions for people who require highly specialised psychological care and attention.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership within the North CMHT and to work in collaboration with the leadership team to deliver effective services. Your role will be to help to develop psychological care pathways within the evolving secondary and primary care mental health transformation process. To lead on the use of best evidence and co-production to create effective, well received, trauma informed patient pathways. To take a lead on embedding new evidence-based treatment pathways such as Structured Clinical Management. Your role will also be to provide specialist assessment and interventions at the same time as offering highly specialised advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to psychologist colleagues, non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers. To provide clinical supervision for psychologists, psychotherapists / other professionals within the team and be responsible with the Service manager for the co-ordination,and performance management of the work of other psychologists/psychotherapists/peer support workers. To take sole professional responsibility and exercise autonomous professional and clinical judgement within the overall framework of Trust, HCPC, BABCP, UKCP and BPS professional policies/guidelines/standards. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It's important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of
If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide Clinical leadership to the North CMHT. To assist in the development of effective clinical pathways for SMI and personality and complex trauma. To provide specialist clinical assessments. Alongside your clinical leadership roles you will also offer a psychological service to service users and their families, joint and indirect clinical and consultation work to the team and other services/agencies. You will have to have an enthusiasm for working productively with multidisciplinary teams in a multi agency context to deliver the highest quality of care. You will provide senior leadership and line management to a range of psychological professions including support workers. The posts involve carrying out highly complex psychological assessments and interventions, leading and advising on clinical pathways for people with complex needs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide Clinical leadership to the North CMHT. To assist in the development of effective clinical pathways for SMI and personality and complex trauma. To provide specialist clinical assessments. Alongside your clinical leadership roles you will also offer a psychological service to service users and their families, joint and indirect clinical and consultation work to the team and other services/agencies. You will have to have an enthusiasm for working productively with multidisciplinary teams in a multi agency context to deliver the highest quality of care. You will provide senior leadership and line management to a range of psychological professions including support workers. The posts involve carrying out highly complex psychological assessments and interventions, leading and advising on clinical pathways for people with complex needs.
Person Specification
knowledge and skills
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oWell-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- oWell-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups
- oSkills in providing highly specialised consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant legislation
training and Qualifications
Essential
- oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those 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 HCPC and BPS
- oa core mental health professional qualification and, where required, registration (ie Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Registered Mental Health Nurse)
training and qualification
Essential
- oPost-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or additional therapeutic training
Desirable
- oLeadership or management training relevant to health and social care settings
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- oAbility to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
- oSignificant evidence of being able to work effectively and lead within multi-disciplinary settings and teams
Desirable
- oExperience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- ooExperience of representing psychological work within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Person Specification
knowledge and skills
Essential
- oSkills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- oWell-developed, high-level skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- oWell-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex groups
- oSkills in providing highly specialised consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Desirable
- oKnowledge of relevant legislation
training and Qualifications
Essential
- oPost-graduate, doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those 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 HCPC and BPS
- oa core mental health professional qualification and, where required, registration (ie Occupational Therapist, Social Worker, Registered Mental Health Nurse)
training and qualification
Essential
- oPost-graduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or additional therapeutic training
Desirable
- oLeadership or management training relevant to health and social care settings
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
- oAbility to work with service users presenting with complex psychological difficulties. Ability to work with the potential of individuals or their carers becoming abusive and aggressive
- oSignificant evidence of being able to work effectively and lead within multi-disciplinary settings and teams
Desirable
- oExperience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
- ooExperience of representing psychological work within the context of multi-disciplinary care
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).
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
