Clinical Psychologist 8a / Preceptorship
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
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Job overview
The post is based in the Stockport Community Neuro Rehab team (CNRS). We are an innovative team who are focused on working with people who have a range of neurological presentations, including stroke, life limiting conditions, head injuries, and functional neurological disorders.We are seeking a psychologist with experience of working with this client population, who is passionate about excellent patient care and promoting psychological understanding and support in an interdisciplinary setting. Applications are welcomed from both current band 7/8a as well as on a preceptorship basis for newly qualified psychologists.
Psychologists in the team offer assessment and formulation for patients, working closely with occupational therapy, physio, speech and language and nursing colleagues to form an MDT provision. Your role will be to provide psychologically informed support through individual and group based clinical work as well as supporting the team through consultation and team formulation.
Main duties of the job
A successful applicant would deliver psychological provision within the Community Neurorehabilitation service here in Stockport NHS Trust, an integrated community stroke and neurorehabilitation team. The post-holder will enjoy a broad and stimulating range of clinical work, both directly with service users and their carers/families and indirectly through consultation, training, supervision and service development.Given the breadth of the service, an excellent range of neurorehabilitation experience will be available (including acquired brain injuries, progressive and degenerative conditions and functional neurological disorders). To be employed at an 8A level, it is expected that you will have completed at least one year of the Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Clinical Neuropsychology with financial support provided for the final year of training.
We would also be happy to receive applications from clinicians without this level of experience but, if successful, they would be appointed on an 8A preceptorship post, and paid as a Band 7, until meeting the aforementioned requirement. Funding for the PGDip would be subsidised by the Stockport Community Neurorehabilitation Service.
Working for our organisation
CNRS is a friendly and welcoming multidisciplinary team, where psychology input is very well established and appreciated, and good links are in place to local mental health and third sector organisations.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt.
Informal discussions are welcomed, Please contact Leona Rose, Principal Clinical Psychologist on [email protected] for more information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be based in the Community Neuro-rehabilitation Service (CNRS) in Stockport, an integrated service for people who have experienced a stroke or who have a neurological condition. The post holder will support the Principal Clinical Psychologist in providing a high quality specialist psychology and neuropsychology service, working closely with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
Key duties
To provide psychological assessment and therapy to service users, carers and families, aiming to promote adjustment, coping and self-management and reduce distress, to clients at various stages of their condition, from soon after onset, to long term coping or end of life issues.
To collaborate with colleagues in shaping the service practice around cognitive screening, and undertake specialist neuropsychological assessment and intervention, to promote understanding and adaptation of clients, families and other professionals.
To offer support/consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and supervision to assistant and trainee psychologists as appropriate.
To deliver training to colleagues, carers or broader staff on a range of psychology-related topics, and/or to deliver group work to clients or other professionals.
To collaborate on and implement service developments, and contribute to the establishment and delivery of a high quality service, such as around triage, psychological screening, prioritising a limited resource and effective evaluation.
To build good relationships both within the team and externally, such as liaising with mental health services, referrers and stakeholders.
To gain knowledge about assessment relating to other service disciplines, to play a role as a core member of the service, and contribute to general service tasks.
To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria- • Doctoral qualification in clinical or other applied psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
- • Registration with the Health Professionals Council
- • Post-doctoral training and qualifications relevant to clinical neuropsychology, relevant psychological therapies, supervision, research methodology, and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Knowledge
Essential criteria- • Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised neuropsychological and psychological rehabilitation, including ways of working with people with complex disabilities.
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- • Knowledge of cognitive assessment and screening, as relevant to this service
Experience
Essential criteria- • Experience of specialist psychological and neuropsychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings.
- • 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 consultation, training and/or supervision for non-psychologist staff in psychological aspects of physical illness/disability.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- • 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.
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- • Collaborative style in working, with excellent skills in establishing relationships with patients and colleagues.
Work related circumstances
Essential criteria- • Occupational Health Clearance.
- • Car owner/driver, to have access to a car for work purposes.
Applicants are encouraged to read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description and person specification and the information for applicants which includes useful information to assist you in completing your application.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Please note that all correspondence will be via your NHS Jobs account. Unfortunately we are not able to acknowledge each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.Please also note that Stockport NHS Foundation Trust are unable to refund Interview expenses or re-location costs.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce.Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.