Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

We are pleased to advertise a full time 7-8a development post based at Westlands.

As part of this role, you will also be part of a psychology hub that supports each other and works together to provide a service across the areas whilst having a specified and main base to work in, which is Westlands female unit in Hull.

Your clinical work will comprise the assessment of need and risk, formulating with and for the MDT, delivering bespoke highly specialist psychological interventions and liaising with community and IP colleagues to ensure a joined up patient journey through our services. You will be supervising doctoral level psychology trainees on placement and assistants when they are in post.

Your role will involve shadowing and then deputising for the Principal Psychologist as agreed and representing psychology in meetings as appropriate. You will be supported through clinical, professional and managerial supervision and we support and encourage CPD relevant to your clinical area. Accessing forums that support your role is encouraged such as Action Learning Sets, coaching, The Trust Proud Leadership Course and mentoring; attendance is expected at AMH Specialty meetings as well as Psychology Department CPD days as they keep you connected and supported professionally. Providing clinical leadership alongside the clinical and team leads to the teams will be a strong part of your role and you will be encouraged to engage in CPD and research/audit.

Main duties of the job

Your clinical work will comprise the assessment of need and risk, formulating with and for the MDT, delivering bespoke highly specialist psychological interventions, running reflective practice groups, providing in house training and supervision to the team, running group psychological debriefs when needed and liaising with community and IP colleagues to ensure a joined up patient journey through our services. You will be supervising doctoral level psychology trainees on placement and assistants when they are in post.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for more details as well as the additional document attached to the advert.

For a discussion about the role please contact Richard Pearson on [e-mail]. We can also arrange for you to visit the unit or speak to the ward manager that you will be working with.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent (if trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.).

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held (secondary mental health).
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.

Skills

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level.

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.