Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to providing exceptional mental health services in Leeds. This role offers a unique opportunity to support individuals living with dementia, working alongside a diverse team of professionals. You will be instrumental in delivering person-centered care, conducting psychological assessments, and facilitating interventions that make a tangible difference in the lives of service users. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive work environment, this position is perfect for those looking to grow their clinical leadership skills while contributing to an essential service. If you are passionate about mental health and eager to make an impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working

Remote working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Career development opportunities

Training and education support

Exclusive discounts and payment schemes

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology is required.
• HCPC registration is mandatory for this role.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality psychological services to dementia inpatient wards.
• Engage with service users and support staff in psychological needs.

Skills

Psychological Interventions

Clinical Leadership

Risk Assessments

Supervision Skills

Empathy

Education

Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology

HCPC registration

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to make a difference to people living with dementia in Leeds. The post is a development post and post holder will be supported to develop to an 8a including access to training in supervision skills, within two years. There is ample opportunity to develop clinical leadership skills and to be involved in ongoing development projects.

There has been psychological provision to the two dementia wards in Leeds for many years and this is a recent increase in funding reflecting the value placed on the contribution from psychological professionals. The wards work to a model of delivering person centred care. The frameworks used include both CLEAR and the Newcastle formulation model. The ward teams are made up of different disciplines and work closely together around a shared care plan. The psychologist on the ward contributes to making sense of peoples behaviours, and uses the formulation process to identify needs in order that least restrictive practice is required and that service users are discharged back home or to a suitable place of care. They offer one to one interventions, risk assessments, liaise with family members to gather more history and are available for time limited support to family if required.

There are two wards, one female and one male and time will be divided between them. The post holder will work regular working hours between Monday and Friday.

Main duties of the job

1. To deliver a high quality psychological service to the inpatient wards for people with dementia at the Mount.
2. To assess, observe and gather relevant history of service users.
3. To facilitate formulations and contribute to and direct the care and treatment plan.
4. To engage with service users, offering psychological interventions as required and supporting staff to attend to the psychological needs of the people admitted to the ward and address the needs of those with behaviours that challenge.
5. To deliver training as required to other professionals on the ward.
6. To attend MDTs and work closely with professional colleagues to enhance the care plans and deliver high quality care.
7. To develop skills in supervision in order to support trainees and other staff.
8. To contribute to service development, including the model of clinical care, keeping abreast of the national direction through FPOP workstreams.
9. To take part in and lead on audits as required.
10. To demonstrate compassion for colleagues and service users.
11. To support family members to adjust to the needs of the person with dementia.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There are a range of psychological professionals working across the Older Peoples Services in Leeds and the professional group work closely together across the older peoples’ pathways. We have good working relationships with our operational colleagues and other leaders. We have good access to supervision, and strong links to the D. Clin Psych course in Leeds. CPD activities are supported.

The Psychological Professions workforce across the Trust is supported by a part time Deputy Director of Psychological Professions and two part time Professional Leads.

We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our previous Psychological Professions Strategy was achieved and we are in the process of writing a new strategy.

The post holder will be delivering person centered dementia care and support staff to deliver high quality interventions. The post is within regular working hours and does not include weekends or bank holidays.

There is ample opportunity to be involved in teaching. The post involves working with families who need support in context of the challenges and changes and loss they are facing.

The post holder is not required to drive.

The post is 30 hours per week.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996).
• HCPC registration.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies used to treat the population of service users specified in the job summary. Eg dementia care and behaviours that challenge and recent guidelines.

Skills

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.