Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Pennine Care NHS FT; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Job summary

The post holder will become part of the expanding Early Intervention in Psychosis service. The Early Intervention team work with clients who are experiencing a first episode psychosis and also those deemed to be at risk of developing psychosis. The post holder will be based within the community team, working alongside care coordinators, psychiatrists, and CBT therapists. The role of the clinical psychologist will be to provide assessment, formulation, and intervention to clients with first episode psychosis and co-morbid difficulties. The clinical psychologist will also provide supervision, consultation, and training for team members. It would be advantageous to have training in CBT for psychosis and/or Family Intervention.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

About us

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

Person Specification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threats of physical abuse.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention, and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• An interest in developing skills in working with clients from a broad range of ethnic backgrounds.
• Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviors.
• Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behavior.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings.

Desirable

• Highly skilled in working with complex clients in groups.
• Enthusiasm for treating those from diverse ethnic backgrounds and experience of working within a multicultural framework.

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS including specific models of psychopathology/mental health, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Training in CBT for psychosis, Family Intervention, or Mindfulness.
• CAARMS trained.

Experience

Essential

• Experience working as a qualified clinical psychologist.
• Experience of working with clients experiencing psychosis.
• Post qualification experience of psychological assessment, intervention, and management working with a wide range of clinical presentations. These should include complex mental health difficulties.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified clinical psychologist and within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.

Desirable

• Experience of working with clients co-morbid difficulties, for example, autistic spectrum condition, learning difficulties, complex PTSD, and difficulties commonly referred to as personality disorder.
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
• Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of supervising other health care professionals.
• Experience of promoting and advocating for the role of psychology within an MDT.

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence of post-doctoral learning and the development of knowledge of theory and practice in relation to psychosis and Early Intervention.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies with complex client groups (e.g., those with co-morbid problems, history of trauma and abuse, developmental disorders, neurological or cognitive difficulties, etc.).
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practice within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.

Desirable

• Formal training in supervision of other Psychologists.

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.
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Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT
Address

HMR Early Intervention Service

Birch Hill Hospital

Rochdale

OL129QB

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