Job overview

The Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Acute and Crisis services provide high quality psychological assessment, intervention and consultancy within local adult acute mental health wards and crisis teams. We are seeking to recruit a part time Practitioner Psychologist to work in our Mid and North Notts CRHT team. 

We encourage those with an interest in working with services users during periods of crisis to consider taking this opportunity to apply their transferrable skills to these rewarding and varied posts. Applicants with significant demonstrated experience of working in acute adult mental health services are particularly welcomed.  There are also roles suitable for practitioners working within the scope of an 8a Psychologist's NHS banding.  Recently qualified and final year trainees with a commitment to this area will be considered with support and opportunities under preceptorship to progress to the 8a role within 18 months post qualification.

Please note that candidates wishing for full time employment may be interested in working part time inputting into the ward setting alongside this role in our Mid & North Notts CRHT (TRACAMH406). Other colleagues in the service hold combined roles and find these positions complimentary and suitably varied - please stipulate on your supporting information if you would like to be considered for a full time position reflective of this arrangement. 

Main duties of the job

You will hold a leadership role within the team and will support the team to adopt a psychological approach. You will participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients’ needs, including a wide range of clinical presentations. You will complete brief psychological interventions with service users on a caseload shared across the team and work indirectly to provide advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary team, e.g., contributing a psychological perspective to care planning and guiding treatment plans at review meetings. 

You will be involved in promoting wellbeing within the multi-disciplinary team, including providing supervision and reflective practice. Our Acute Psychology team have recently developed a range of brief psychologically informed group interventions for our inpatient wards as we expand our treatment directory, and so there will be opportunities to help shape, plan, oversee and deliver group interventions within the inpatient and/or CRHT settings whilst providing supervision and leadership less experienced members of the Acute and Crisis Psychology team. There are also frequent opportunities to provide training and contribute to service development. For further information, please refer to the job description and person specification attachment in the advert.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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