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Practitioner Psychologist - Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment
Band 8a
Main area: Clinical Psychologist Grade Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref: 186-376-25-MH
Site: Sherwood Oaks CRHT
Town: Mansfield
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
The Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Acute and Crisis services provide high quality psychological assessment, intervention, and consultancy within local adult acute mental health wards and crisis teams. We are seeking to recruit a part-time Practitioner Psychologist to work in our Mid and North Notts CRHT team.
We encourage those with an interest in working with service users during periods of crisis to consider taking this opportunity to apply their transferable skills to these rewarding and varied posts. Applicants with significant demonstrated experience of working in acute adult mental health services are particularly welcomed. There are also roles suitable for practitioners working within the scope of an 8a Psychologist's NHS banding. Recently qualified and final year trainees with a commitment to this area will be considered with support and opportunities under preceptorship to progress to the 8a role within 18 months post qualification.
Please note that candidates wishing for full-time employment may be interested in working part-time inputting into the ward setting alongside this role in our Mid & North Notts CRHT (TRACAMH406). Other colleagues in the service hold combined roles and find these positions complementary and suitably varied - please stipulate on your supporting information if you would like to be considered for a full-time position reflective of this arrangement.
Main duties of the job
You will hold a leadership role within the team and will support the team to adopt a psychological approach. You will participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients’ needs, including a wide range of clinical presentations. You will complete brief psychological interventions with service users on a caseload shared across the team and work indirectly to provide advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary team, e.g., contributing a psychological perspective to care planning and guiding treatment plans at review meetings.
You will be involved in promoting wellbeing within the multi-disciplinary team, including providing supervision and reflective practice. Our Acute Psychology team have recently developed a range of brief psychologically informed group interventions for our inpatient wards as we expand our treatment directory, and so there will be opportunities to help shape, plan, oversee, and deliver group interventions within the inpatient and/or CRHT settings whilst providing supervision and leadership to less experienced members of the Acute and Crisis Psychology team. There are also frequent opportunities to provide training and contribute to service development. For further information, please refer to the job description and person specification attachment in the advert.
Working for our organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium, and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority, and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service, and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network, Health and Wellbeing Champions Network, and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicants will join an established, friendly, and supportive group of qualified and assistant psychologists working into the Trust’s acute adult mental health services, including inpatient wards and crisis teams across Nottinghamshire. Our team of psychologists have a breadth of experience and employ a range of psychological models and approaches. This post is line managed within the profession and clinical supervision will be provided by a senior psychologist in the service.
Please note that this post does not meet the pay level required for a Skilled worker visa.
Successful applicants with no prior NHS experience would normally be placed at the bottom of the band in line with Agenda for Change. This salary is below the minimum salary required for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa. In these circumstances, the Trust would not, therefore, be able to sponsor for a Skilled Worker / Health & Care visa.
Minimum Requirements
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
* Post-doctoral training in one or more specialisms
Experience
* Working as an applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
* Teaching, training, and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
* Research and development
* Quality and service improvement and evaluation
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary, and private sector agencies
Knowledge
* Evidence-based practice relevant to the role
* Risk assessment and risk management
* Clinical governance
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Audit and research methodology
* Social Inclusion agenda
Skills
* Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
* Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
* Provide effective teaching, training, and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities
* Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems
* Utilise psychometric tests competently
* Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
* Use approved breakaway techniques
* Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic, and public settings.
* Experience of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental difficulties
* Knowledge of Trauma informed approaches
Contractual Requirements
* A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however, reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
* Able to work in accordance with the staff and Trust values and behaviours
Values and Behaviours
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Training
* To have completed Doctoral Level training as a practitioner Psychologist.
* DCounsPsych
* DForenPsy
Additional Information
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants, so we advise you to submit your application early to prevent disappointment.
* We will be requesting references by email. Please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
* The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
* Communication regarding your application will be sent via email; therefore, please ensure you regularly check your spam/junk folder.
* In submitting an application form, you authorise Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you. This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post. Should you require any further information please refer to our Privacy Policy shown on the Trust website.
* For eligible posts, DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment. If you are in a position that is deemed a regulated adult and/or child care role, you will not be able to start your employment until we have received a satisfactory DBS Disclosure. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Convictions which would otherwise be considered as 'spent' will also be checked as part of an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Dr. Zoe Whitaker
Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Email address: zoe.whitaker@nottshc.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07834232312
Additional information: Dr. Zoe Whitaker - Lead Clinical Psychologist, Inpatient AMH
0115 9691 1300
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