Clinical Psychologist

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Join our growing Older Peoples Psychology team in West Yorkshire! This post in Calderdale's Intensive Support Team (ISTC), the older adults crisis team, is one of several resulting from significant investment in our services. The post will also involve working with the older adults CMHT.

There is flexibility with regard to WTE, and some opportunity to work from home.

Supported by our established Principal and Consultant CPs, plus the wider network of OPS Psychologists across the Trust. We really value developing our staff with CPD opportunities and potential to develop the post in line with your own interests.

Available at 8a for a candidate with appropriate experience. There is also potential to join the service at band 7 and undertake a development plan with the aim of developing the required competencies for an 8a post. The candidate would need to successfully complete the competency framework to gain the band 8a and this would not be achieved solely due to length of time in post.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

Main duties of the job

Crisis team: Providing intensive support to people in their own homes to both avoid admission and support discharge from hospital. Opportunities for short- and longer-term input, including supporting through admissions, and continuing work on discharge to the CMHT. The team have recently started to have some psychology input, so this is a great opportunity to create and develop your role, embedding psychological and trauma-informed ways of working, and supporting the staff team through consultancy, formulation, supervision and training.

CMHT: You will be part of a team that really values psychology input, psychologically informed ways of working and multidisciplinary work. Working alongside our established Principal CP and newly qualified colleague, you will support the MDT as a senior colleague by providing staff support, training, consultancy and supervision.

We are looking for someone with a clear interest in working with older people.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities. We do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the 8a post. The post holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

The post holder will provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.

1. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
2. Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
3. Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
4. Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.
5. Offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of service users.
6. Provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the band 7 post. The post holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

The post holder will provide specialist clinical psychology skills within a multidisciplinary team. The post holder will provide a high-quality clinical service to the users of the service.

They will provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention while working collaboratively with non-psychologist colleagues, professionals from other agencies and carers. They will be clinically responsible to a senior clinical psychologist. Clinical oversight of all work will be held by the clinical lead in the service.

The job plan will be delivered in the services the post is based.

The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team while observing Trust and National policies and procedures.

The post holder will provide support to Assistant Psychologists and Doctoral trainees. They will utilise research skills in audit, service development and research relevant to the post.

Person Specification

Experience

• Band 8a: Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
• Show respect and treat people with dignity.
• Be able to give bad news sensitively.
• Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
• Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
• Band 7: Completion of supervised clinical practice in the NHS.
• Ability to work within two models of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
• Band 8a: Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of group work.
• Band 7: Experience in working with service users in the clinical area of the post.
• Different theoretical approaches.
• Work with other disciplines.
• Work with people who have disabilities.

Special Knowledge & Skills

• Band 8a: Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
• Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees.
• Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes.
• Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance.
• Ability to Formulate Complex processes.
• Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
• Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
• Manual Dexterity for conducting tests.
• Band 7: A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• IT Literate.
• Band 8a: Working with people in Crisis.
• Working on an in-patient Psychiatric ward.
• Band 7: Knowledge of adult & child protection legislation.
• Aware of legislation relevant to the clinical area of practice.

Qualifications

• Band 8a: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
• Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post.
• HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
• Band 7: Hons. Degree in Psychology.
• Appropriate safeguarding training.
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
• Band 7: 2:1 min.
• Eligible for chartered status.

Personal Attributes

• Band 8a: A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
• Band 7: Caring.
• Team Player.
• Commitment to supervision and support.
• Flexible.
• Committed to client group.

Training

• Band 8a: Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

£46,148 to £60,504 a year Band 7 - 8a dependant on experience