Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 274-11270-OA
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Witham Court
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist
Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Acute Pathways within the Older People and Frailty Division at a time of expansion of the psychology workforce within the Division. Two posts are available; one aligned to the dementia acute pathway comprising the dementia inpatient ward and dementia home treatment team, and one post aligned to the mental health acute pathway comprising the mental health inpatient ward and mental health home treatment team. You will be supported by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist for Acute Pathways and will work alongside specialist multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) including Occupational Therapists, Psychiatric Nurses and Assistants, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Consultant Psychiatrists, Pharmacists, and Service Managers. Both wards and home treatment teams are based at Witham Court, North Hykeham which is a hub for the Division. As such you will have close links with other services in the Division allowing for multi-disciplinary support, and there is also scope for some remote working.
We welcome applications from newly qualified Clinical Psychologists as well as Trainee Clinical Psychologists in their final year of doctoral training. Depending on experience, successful candidates will commence the post at either Band 7 in a developmental role for progression to Band 8a upon completion of a competency framework, or commence at Band 8a with existing experience and skills to match the person specification.
Main duties of the job
• Be part of specialist MDTs across the acute services, in either the mental health or dementia pathways.
• Provide a qualified clinical psychology service for older people within the acute pathways with either mental health or dementia presentations. This will include specialist assessment and formulation, and provision of brief interventions, as well as evaluation of the services provided.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary decision making around service user progression through the pathway based on assessment and formulation, and risk assessment and safety planning.
• Be supported by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to facilitate staff groups focused on formulation development and reflective practice.
• Provide psychological consultation and opinion to members of the MDT in the inpatient and home treatment teams. This will aid development of psychological formulation and understanding across the teams, and support with care planning.
• Undertake and contribute to risk assessment and safety planning for individual service users.
• Support implementation of evidence based practice, and utilise research skills for audit and service evaluations.
• Contribute to engagement with carers/families/relatives recognising their role in service user care.
• Contribute to service development around trauma informed care and inpatient transformation.
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
In addition to the above, the post holder will:
• Complete evaluations of the service provided which may include completion of outcome measures and other forms of evaluation as appropriate, or contribute to the development of suitable measures if none currently exist.
• Contribute to engagement with carers/families/relatives through development and maintenance of trusting and supportive relationships.
• Contribute to delivery of teaching and training.
• Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for clinical governance of own work according to Trust policies.
• Receive and participate in regular clinical and management supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
• Plan and prioritise own clinical workload, service activities, supervision needs, and continuing professional development in the best interests of the service being provided.
• Contribute to professional leadership including provision of clinical supervision to Assistant Psychologists, Trainee Clinical Psychologists and other clinical staff, as required, with the possibility of providing managerial supervision to Assistant Psychologists.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychotherapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) upon completion of doctoral training.
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS.
Desirable criteria
- Training in the provision of clinical supervision.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with older adults.
- Experience of working with individuals with cognitive impairment and/or dementia, and individuals with complex and acute mental health difficulties.
- Experience of working with carers/families/relatives.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
- Experience of neuropsychological/psychometric assessment.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the life course and presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity utilising complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
- Knowledge and experience of facilitating team formulations, and providing consultation and psychological opinion to MDT colleagues.
Desirable criteria
- Experience and interest in working in older adult inpatient settings or home treatment teams.
- Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups.
- Experience of contributing to quality improvement or service evaluation projects.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Involvement with the Faculty of Psychology for Older People, BPS or other organisations focussed on the psychological needs of Older People
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment including assessment of risk, and subsequent care planning to address identified needs.
- Skills and ability to develop comprehensive formulations using a range of information and based on theoretical models.
- Knowledge in the appropriate use of outcome measures and evaluation of clinical effectiveness.
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
- Ability to demonstrate empathy and compassion, and to foster effective working relationships.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing with an ability to express complex, technical and highly sensitive information to service users, carers/families/relatives, and other professional colleagues adapting the communication style to suit the audience.
- Experience of providing teaching/training, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Proficiency in keyboard skills, word processing, and Internet and email use.
- Ability to organise and manage own caseload, clinical activities, and communications and working relationships with other professionals and agencies.
- Ability to appropriately respond to and manage clinical situations in which verbal or physical aggression may present.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of specialised theory and psychological frameworks for working with older adults presenting with acute mental health difficulties, and behaviours that challenge in dementia
- Knowledge of national guidance and legislation in relation to working with older adults.
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Special requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage logistics of appointments in different parts of the county, and therefore be able to travel independently across the county
- Ability to engage in sustained and intense concentration, and sit/stand in restricted positions for extended periods of time.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Stephanie Page
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07596550124
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