Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist
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- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
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Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a part time clinical psychologist to work with the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team within North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team.
This post will largely focus on the psychological needs of children and adults within PBS pathways and providing consultation to the Enhanced Crisis Aversion Team within the Community Learning Disability Team.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology assessment and consultation therapy service to children and adults with learning disabilities and their families and carers in the area serviced by North Tyneside Community Learning Disability Team.
To undertake research and audit for policy and service development within the area served by the team.
To be responsible for the supervision of assistant psychologists and trainees on placement from doctoral courses in clinical psychology.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant will have a key role in providing psychological assessments as well as a therapeutic, consultative and advisory service in relation to children and adults with learning disabilities, their families and carers, according to identified clinical need.In addition to direct clinical work, providing consultation and where necessary clinical supervision to other team members.
Applicants should have experience in working within Learning Disability services and show strong patient-centred values. The successful applicants will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering excellent mental health care and evidence based interventions.Opportunities to develop special interests will be encouraged, as will opportunities to undertake service development and research activities.
Our service maintains strong links to the local Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programmes, providing clinical placements. There are excellent opportunities for peer support, supervision, CPD, teaching, training, research and audit.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Doctoral degree or equivalent qualification as accredited by the BPS as qualification for the independent practice of applied psychology in the NHS.
- Eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychology status.
- Clinical supervision.
- Clinical training.
- Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychology practice.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Experience of working as a clinical psychologist in the field of learning disability.
- Experience of individual direct clinical work with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course and presenting with a full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching and training other professional groups.
- Working knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Evidence of CPD as recommended by the BPS.
- Experience of clinical supervision.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Experience of non-aversive behavioural assessments and interventions e.g. La Vigna model.
- Knowledge, theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.