Principal Clinical Psychologist

Dorset Healthcare; Poole; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Poole is looking for an experienced clinical psychologist to join their crisis mental health services. The role involves providing specialist psychological advice and consultancy, leading teams, and contributing to service development. Candidates should hold a doctorate in clinical psychology and possess experience in psychological care for crisis situations. The organization values diversity and offers flexible working options, alongside benefits like annual leave and an NHS pension scheme.

Benefits

27 days of annual leave

Excellent NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options

Free training and career coaching

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in providing psychological services in crisis settings.
• Ability to supervise and train staff and trainees.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychological formulation and assessment to teams.
• Supervise other psychologists, assistants, and trainees.
• Lead the implementation of psychological approaches in care.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Psychological formulation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, forward thinking, highly skilled and experienced clinical psychologist to join our crisis mental health services. Working across the Home Treatment, Connection and Patient Flow teams, you will provide expertise in both direct clinical work and leadership/supervision of teams in psychological approaches to care.

This is a key clinical leadership role, working within multidisciplinary teams and responsible for continuing to drive and embed the significant work already undertaken in developing trauma informed psychological pathways and approaches to care through the CCC (Comprehend, Cope, Connect) model.

The post holder will be responsible for providing highly specialist advice and consultancy to individual staff, teams and patients. With direct responsibility for the provision of psychological services within the teams, including supervision of assistants and trainees. And have a key role to play in service development and quality improvement across the crisis and acute care pathways.

This role covers teams based at St Anns Hospital, Poole and Forston Clinic, Dorchester. All reasonable flexible working requests will be considered, but the post holder will be expected to work across both sites in line with service need.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the MDT providing specialist psychological formulation, assessment and direct clinical care.
• Provide supervision, reflective practice and consultation/advice to both teams, along with the Connection service (which provides 24/7 mental health crisis telephone support and very urgent face to face clinical assessments).
• Contribute to quality improvement and service development, including research and development activities such as teaching.
• Leading workstreams on psychological approaches to care, and specifically to continue to embed the CCC model within the teams
• Line manage, supervise and support other psychologists, assistants and trainees.

Working for our organisation

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves. Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

At Dorset HealthCare we want to offer all our staff the opportunity to work flexibly, putting health and wellbeing first, whilst continuing the delivery of excellent patient care. Flexible working looks different for everyone and we welcome applicants to discuss flexible working opportunities with the recruiting manager.

What working for us will provide

• + 27 days of annual leave, rising to 33 over ten years (for staff on Agenda for Change terms and conditions)
• + Excellent NHS pension scheme
• + Health and wellbeing services
• + Flexible working options, including family-friendly hours
• + Free training and one-to-one career coaching to reach your career goals
• + Preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses and AHPs
• + Access to nine staff networks - have a voice and transform our Trust
• + Relocation costs where applicable
• + Salary sacrifice scheme opportunities - including childcare vouchers, car lease and cycle scheme, home technology equipment, and buying annual leave
• + NHS discounts to save on your shopping, gym membership and more
• Visit our careers website to learn more about our culture, staff stories, benefits, development programmes and opportunities.

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