Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in East Riding is seeking a Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide senior clinical leadership in adult community mental health services. The role involves leading the psychological workforce, offering assessments and interventions for complex needs, and implementing formulation-based care. This position offers a salary range of £64,455 to £74,896 per annum, reflecting the commitment to professional development and service improvement.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice within identified clinical area.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups.
• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership of the psychological workforce across your area.
• Provide psychological assessment and intervention for clients with complex needs.
• Lead the implementation of formulation-based care within the service.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Effective communication skills

Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care

Education

Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology

Job description

Principal Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

We are excited to advertise a senior psychologist post to provide senior clinical leadership across the East Riding geographical area in adult community mental health services.

You will take a key role in continuing to develop and implement the mental health division psychological workforce strategy in your area, and provide senior psychological leadership to the psychological workforce within your service area.

You will work alongside other senior leaders to support and strengthen the role of formulation-based care across your area, providing quick access to psychological assessment and formulation for service-users with the most complex needs, in conjunction with psychological colleagues from inpatient and crisis services.

If you are interested in taking a senior role that balances complex direct clinical work as well as indirect working and leadership and service development, we are keen to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Please see the specific job descriptions and person specifications for full details. Key duties include:

• Provide leadership of the psychological workforce across your area
• Provide psychological assessment, consultation, formulation and intervention across your area with a focus on clients with the most complex needs.
• In collaboration with psychological colleagues in unplanned care services, to provide and ensure timely access to assessment and formulation for clients with complex needs and high presenting risks, and to make and support the implementation of recommendations for other clinicians/services/agencies as part of that work.
• Provide regular psychological consultation, assessment and formulation slots, both direct and indirect with colleagues from across the service and wider division, to support psychologically-informed care.
• Lead the implementation of formulation-based care from the beginning of a client's journey within the service.
• To provide the senior psychological voice in the development and implementation of psychological provision and pathways across the teams, ensuring that the psychological workforce within the service work within the aims of the divisional psychological workforce strategy.
• To provide clinical and professional supervision to psychological professionals within the teams and wider division, alongside other senior colleagues.
• To lead on projects and quality improvement initiatives in your area relating to psychological practice .

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. Find out more on our website

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 promotes 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.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job descriptions and person specifications.

This role is part of a new , more resourced senior leadership team that will be providing you with robust peer support and development opportunities.

Please see the additional document attached to the advert to learn more about the area, the opportunities and the wider support network associated with this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Education and Training

• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS
• Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
• 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.)

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups , across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

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.

Trust HQ, Block A, Ground Floor, Beverley Road, Willerby Hill

£64,455 to £74,896 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

338-7664450-25

Job locations

Trust HQ, Block A, Ground Floor, Beverley Road, Willerby Hill