About this role
Job summary
Responsible for: Other qualified Psychology & Psychological Therapies Staff, attached assistants, graduate psychologists, clinical associate psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists on placement and clinical psychologists as appropriate.
Liaises with:Consultant Clinical Psychologist (Community Lead), other team members, psychologists and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for the individuals care. Clinical Team Leaders in AMH across the Division, Liaises with families/carers and/or the individuals wider support network.
The post-holder is a member of the multi-professional team. As a senior clinician, with substantial clinical experience and post-qualification training, the post-holder will provide a high level of expertise within the Community Mental Health Services in Andover Community Mental Health Team.
Working with the senior management team, clinical staff, and peer support staff, to take a supporting role in the creation; development, containment and support of a multi-professional therapeutic environment and trauma informed approach which can provide the highest quality psychologically informed care for adults with severe mental health problems.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for: Other qualified Psychology & Psychological Therapies Staff, attached assistants, graduate psychologists, clinical associate psychologists, doctoral trainee clinical psychologists on placement and clinical psychologists as appropriate.
In particular, the post-holder will:
Take clinical leadership responsibility for the implementation and coordination of psychological care for the teams they are responsible for.
Ensure the systematic provision of high-quality specialist psychological services for individuals and their families/ carers, with an emphasis on co-production, dealing primarily with complex psychological problem and supporting the development of a psychological milieu and a trauma informed approach to care.
The post-holder will undertake complex assessments and intervention strategies, including specialist neuropsychological assessment; offer consultancy and provide expert advice to Acute Services colleagues, and the wider clinical multi-professional team, other agencies and non-professional carers.
Provide leadership, consultation, supervision and support to psychologists and other members of the clinical team who provide psychologically based care and treatment within this setting.
Work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service
About us
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
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience. Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
Desirable
Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy. Management training Accreditation as a therapist with BABCP, SfDBT, ACAT or similar body
Experience Essential
In depth experience of working as a principal clinical psychologist. Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care. Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings. Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. Experience of managing staff. Experience of providing neuropsychological assessment
Additional Criteria Essential
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 patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problems Competency in the application of interventions for people who severe and enduring mental health problems. Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to constructively manage situations and people at times of conflict. Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments. Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Ability to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlines Highly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving service user experience. Knowledge of and a commitment to a recovery focused approach and to positive risk taking. Enthusiasm for working within a community mental health team as an integrated team member. Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours. 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 behaviour. Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases. Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services. An ability to travel between sites as required
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Andover Health Hub
The Chantry Centre, Chantry Street
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 1RL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)