About this role
Job summary
We are offering a development 7 to 8a post to an enthusiastic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to join our Haltemprice Community Mental Health Services in the East Riding. The post is for 0.7wte at band 7 reducing to 0.6wte at band 8a to remain within the financial envelope. We are looking for someone with prior experience of working within a community setting for adults with trauma, severe mental health difficulties and complex needs.
This is an opportunity to share a team psychologist role with an experienced colleague, making it an ideal development environment. You will work together on the delivery of psychology and benefitting from the close support of a peer within the same team. We are also in the process of aligning our psychology delivery to a Neighbourhood Teams model and we welcome your input into that process and having a voice in shaping services.
We have recently reconfigured our community services to optimise the level of support for psychology staff and support the governance of psychology provision across Hull and East Riding. To that end we have recruited two Principal Psychologists across these areas.
Additional hours may be immediately available to cover maternity leave.
We also welcome applicants meeting the criteria for the 8a role.
Main duties of the job
Delivering systematic provision of highly specialist psychological assessments, joint assessments, formulations, consultation, care planning and individual group interventions within Haltemprice CMHT by providing strong effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions, and practice. To contribute to the planning and organisation of community psychological services. To provide clinical supervision and to offer advice and consultation on service users' psychological care and risk management to non-psychologist colleagues , and to other non-professional carers.To provide supervision to psychology assistants. To engage in research, audit, service evaluations, service developments and quality improvement initiatives. To provide support for the staff development including training, group supervision, team formulation sessions, reflective and to play an active role within the MDT meetings. Staying connected to your colleagues professionally and ensuring you are supported through regular attendance at Community Psychology meetings, AMH Speciality meetings, Trust wide Psychology CPD days, CPD SIGs, group supervision, your clinical managerial and professional supervision. Being active in your own clinical and professional development which we will actively support you with.
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 description Job responsibilities
With regards to this vacancy, please refer to the job description and person specification for further information.
Please see additional documents for further information on the post, the development paperwork , the AMH specialty and the wider service.
We would very much welcome a discussion with you about the post and contact details are within the additional document attached to the advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Completed post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS (or equivalent if qualified before 1996) To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC oSkills in providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups
Desirable
Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice. Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychology practice Completion of BPS accredited supervision course enabling supervision of doctoral trainees.
Experience Essential
Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context 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 Experience of working with trauma cases
Desirable
Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan. Experience of teaching, training and/or clinical supervision
Skills and Competencies Essential
Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity Able to demonstrate effective communication skills - written and verbal Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
Desirable
Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally Be able to demonstrate leadership/project management skills at an advanced level
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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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 Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address Haltemprice CMHT
College House
Trust HQ Willerby Hill Site
HU10 6ED
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)