Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Associate in Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6313083-A
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Lyme Brook Centre
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
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Clinical Associate in Psychology
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The Newcastle CMHT team are looking to recruit to a qualified Band 6 Clinical Associate in Psychology. The is a full time, permanent position.
The successful candidate will:
· work as a semi-autonomous psychological practitioner under the direct supervision of an experienced and HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist.
· provide specialist Psychological services to adults who present with complex mental health difficulties and require involvement from a Community Mental Health Team.
· work as a member of the Community Mental Health Team based in Staffordshire/Stoke-on-Trent* alongside MDT colleagues, to provide effective evidence-based care in line with National and Local guidelines.
· manage a caseload and be responsible for proactive care delivery decisions – within the scope of practice and under the supervision of a Clinical Psychologist.
· To plan, assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
Main duties of the job
· To undertake the range of clinical activities including psychological assessments, treatments and other types of clinical intervention with individual service users, carers, families, groups etc; along with other activities such as staff training; research and development activity.
· To work semi-autonomously on a day-to-day basis within their scope of practice under supervision of and subject to review at regular intervals by a registered practitioner psychologist in accordance with British Psychological Society (BPS) guidelines.
· CAPs adhere to NHS values and legal & ethical responsibilities as supervised psychological practitioners along with professional (BPS) standards of conduct, performance and ethics, including patient consent and confidentiality.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Provide assessment, formulation and intervention recommendations for complex clinical presentations, within their scope of practice.
· Use a range of assessment measures and procedures that are compatible with service user presenting problems.
· Manage their own caseload (including fulfilling the role of care coordinator/ key worker where appropriate) while undertaking their own clinical programmes of work, within their scope of practice, under supervision.
· Assess the predisposing and precipitating factors that give rise to service-user presenting problems.
· Use assessment measures including established psychometric measures, systematic observation and measurement of emotional state, cognitions and behaviour in a variety of settings, including self-motivating strategies for clients.
· Undertake assessments on a one-to-one basis with service users, their carer’s and in group settings.
· Based on information collated during assessment, provide a formulation for presenting problems that describes their aetiology, maintenance and appropriate methods of intervention.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Honours Degree in Psychology – Single or Joint honours (with substantial relevant experience in research or clinical activities if the award received is 2:2 or less)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the Health sector, voluntary sector or undertaking local engagement work
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to facilitate effective interaction when there are barriers to understanding and circumstances of hostility, manipulation, conflict and antagonism.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of accredited Clinical Associate in Psychology MSc
- Evidence of training/CPD to develop knowledge and theory relevant to work in the specialism
- Eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society via qualification recognition or by alternative route
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
- Louise Joy Johnson
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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