Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical, Counselling, Forensic or Health)
Job overview
If you are passionate about psychology within adult community mental health and being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, this is the perfect role for you.
The Grantham CMHT is a vibrant, collaborative and supportive team; we are motivated to deliver the best service whilst prioritising staff well-being and job satisfaction. We strongly promote CPD and pride ourselves on being a flexible, compassionate employer.We welcome conversations about full/part time, flexible/remote working opportunities.
You will be welcomed into a highly regarded CMHT and the wider multidisciplinary locality as well as a highly skilled and dynamic Psychology division. We support our Psychologists to develop their interests within and beyond direct clinical work, focusing on the broader application of clinical psychology and the full extent of their training and roles.We see the role of Psychologists as enhancing the psychological mindedness of the MDT, supporting and improving the whole Team's ability to deliver psychological interventions.
We are looking for a Practitioner Psychologist (Clinical/Counselling/Forensic) who already has the competence and experience relevant to an 8a position, or a Psychologist who meets the qualification, training and competence for a band 7 post and can achieve the 8a position through a preceptorship (and completion of a portfolio).For further information please contact Marijke de Groot on 01476 464943 or Olivia Marcoulides on 01476858333
Main duties of the job
The full job description and person specification are attached. The primary hopes for the role are:
To support the embedding of psychologically minded assessment and interventions within our community mental health services across the South of the County. This will be through attendance at MDTs and facilitation of clinical consultation meetings.
To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build a trauma informed understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways that meet their individual needs.
To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.
To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.
To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.
To support coproduced service development within the teams and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.
To provide clinical supervision for Trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists, team reflective practice/supervision and support the development of new psychologically informed roles.
The role is varied with opportunity for direct therapeutic intervention, MDT consultation, formulation as well as 1:1 support for staff, education and training.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall.In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To carry a caseload of clients within the Grantham CMHT.
To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service, including standards defined by the HCPC, British Psychological Society and the Trust.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment/management of clients’ mental health and presenting problem(s), based on clinical theory and evidence based practice.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for clients/carers/families/groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives and models.
To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work. To lead such interventions when the major components are psychological.
To provide consultation and advice to relevant significant others (e.g. partners/carers),consultation and advice and where appropriate clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies.
To keep adequate clinical records in accordance with service guidance, local trust policies and procedures.
To undertake risk assessment and management and provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management, in line with local trust policies and procedures.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of MDT care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Honours degree in Psychology.
- Post-graduate (doctoral or masters degree) level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic psychology that confers eligibility for HCPC.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
- Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of evidence-based psychological therapy.
- Completed STAR supervisor training
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of psychological assessment, formulation, treatment, and evaluation of adults in secondary care mental health services
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups with a range of presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis
- Experience of 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 clients’ psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
- Experience of delivering teaching and training. Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to adults.
- Experience of working in a community mental health team/other multi-professional team
- Experience of working indirectly/from a consultation model
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of 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
- Knowledge of professional guidelines set out by the HCPC.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems.
- High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- 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.
- IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases
- Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines.
- Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving client experience.
- Enthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team member.
- An ability to travel between sites as required, without the use of public transport.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
- Skills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings