About this role
Job summary
The Learning Disability Service in Leeds is seeking a dynamic and experienced Clinical Psychologist to join our team. This is a large service comprising four multi-disciplinary teams committed to improving the health, well-being and lives of adults with a learning disability, and actively involving and advocating for people in their journey through services.
This role would suit someone with an established track record of delivering services for people with a learning disability who is interested in a new challenge to innovate and develop psychological services across a range of clinical pathways. The role will involve working closely with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist to review and evaluate psychology provision, offering an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with the leadership team, multi-disciplinary team colleagues and the psychology team to help shape the design and delivery of psychology services and strengthen the psychology core offer so it aligns with current service demands.
The postholder will primarily work across two teams: the Intensive Support Team (IST), designed to reduce the risk of placement breakdown and hospital admission, and one of our established Community Learning Disability teams (CLDT).
Main duties of the job
The Learning Disability Service has embedded and values trauma-informed and formulation-driven approaches to supporting adults with complex presentations and addressing systemic challenges, and this post-holder would be instrumental in ensuring the continual delivery of these psychologically informed ways of working.
We are committed to supporting the development and learning of our clinical psychologists and this role will afford a range of opportunities for enhancing professional knowledge and skills, development opportunities, clinical supervision of others, and quality improvement projects.
Within IST the postholder will hold a small clinical caseload and work intensively alongside colleagues to assess and formulate presenting difficulties informing multi-dimensional interventions to reduce risk and increase community participation. The postholder will act as a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) specialist in the team, clinically supervising and supporting colleagues in the implementation of this model. The post holder will also be responsible for the development, delivery and evaluation of staff training. This role will involve close liaison and consultation with internal and external organisations, and requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles(this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description Job responsibilities
Within the West and South Community Learning Disability team (CLDT) the postholder will undertake a range of clinical, psychological, neuropsychological and psychometric assessments to develop multifactorial clinical formulations that inform the delivery of evidence based and effective interventions, and clinically supervise junior, trainee and assistant psychologists in this work. The postholder will be confident in their understanding of learning disability, challenging behaviour and emotional dysregulation and in providing trauma-informed formulations, direct therapy, consultation, clinical supervision and training. The postholder will ensure the delivery of psychological interventions aligns to the established clinical pathways. There will be a requirement to attend weekly clinical team meetings and make autonomous clinical decisions about the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
The role will include providing clinical leadership, support and supervision across all teams, and supporting organisational and systemic work in conjunction with the Consultant Psychologist, attending and deputising at service level and trust wide meetings as required.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration
Experience Essential
Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision of other staff.
Skills Essential
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and distressing clinical experiences and strategy behaviours.
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge and application of legislation in relation to the client group.
Values Desirable
Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue. Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help. Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
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 Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address St Marys Hospital
Leeds
LS12 3QE
Employer's website https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)