Principal Clinical Psychologist

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join the Intensive Support Team for adults with learning disabilities. You will provide highly specialist psychological assessments and interventions in the community, aiming to minimise challenging behaviour and improve quality of life.

The role includes supervising junior staff, offering consultation to colleagues, and contributing to service development, research, audits and staff training.

Qualifications

• Qualified psychologist with experience in learning disabilities.
• Experience providing psychological assessments and interventions.
• Ability to communicate complex information to professionals and patients.
• Experience in research, service evaluation and audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist psychological assessments and treatments.
• Supervise junior staff and provide MDT supervision.
• Consult with staff and compile reports for professional agencies.
• Develop and monitor service policies, audits and evaluations.
• Deliver training on psychological approaches to staff and agencies.
• Support wellbeing and reflective practice within the team.
• Engage in project management and research within the service.

Skills

Clinical psychology expertise

Staff supervision

Consultation with professionals

Data collection & analysis

Job description

We are seeking to recruit a Clinical Psychologist to work in an Intensive Support Team for adults with learning disabilities, providing support in the community aiming to minimise challenging behaviour, improve quality of life and create effective support systems. To devise, deliver and evaluate highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment interventions for users of the service, including supervising/ consulting to members of staff regarding decisions about appropriate intervention.

• To use well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, complex highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients and other professional colleagues.
• To provide a highly specialist consultation service, including compilation of summaries and formal reports to professional agencies.
• To provide clinical supervision to junior staff.
• To provide management supervision to a range of multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team's operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
• To provide training in the use of psychological approaches to other professional staff and agencies.
• To be aware of the wellbeing of all members of the team and support appropriately, such as by facilitating reflective practice sessions.
• To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research within the service.
• To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation to help develop service provision.

As a qualified psychologist with relevant experience working with people with learning disabilities, you will provide the service with skilled, reliable support in data collection and monitoring, assessment and analysis of the functions of behaviours, helping facilitate staff group training and support sessions and providing direct psychologically informed interventions to clients. You will be part of our in-reach service to Community Learning Disability Teams, providing advice and consultation. You will possess high level written and verbal communication skills and be able to use computer-based programs quickly and efficiently. You will be able to manage your time effectively to complete work to deadlines.

You will work in a multi-disciplinary team as a lead and be able to work well in different systems. You will be required to clinically supervise and line manage different members of the team.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence