37.5 Hours Per Week.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7/8a HCPC registered Psychologist to join our Inpatient Psychology Team on the Fieldhead Hospital site. You will be part of a supportive Psychology team committed to delivering high quality trauma informed services within our forensic low and medium secure mental health care group.
The post holder will work into the Bretton Centre, a low secure mental health service for men with 38 beds across 3 wards. This includes an acute/assessment ward, a rehabilitation, and a pre-discharge ward. The service offers a unique opportunity to hold a varied caseload with complex service users across different stages of their recovery. We have strong supervisory and professional networks, and a focus on personal and professional development, including offering further training in specialist forensic risk assessment and trauma focused therapeutic interventions. We constantly strive to improve as a wider inpatients psychology team and there are lots of opportunities for involvement in service development.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide assessment, formulation and therapeutic interventions for the inpatient group. This will be via one to one work, through indirect work with the wider MDT, and in providing consultation and training to colleagues within the service. The post-holder will receive regular clinical supervision from psychologists based within the forensic care group and if required will be supported to complete their own supervisor training. Experience of working with complex mental health needs and of working in secure settings would be desirable but enthusiasm for working with this client group is essential. Well attuned relational and engagement skills are essential as well as the ability to develop and communicate complex formulations. The post is suitable for an experienced specialist psychologist who is already working at a 8a banding and who wishes to develop their skills further in a forensic setting, or for a psychologist interested in a Band 7/8a preceptorship.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
2. Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
3. Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
4. Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
5. Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.
Person Specification
Training.
Essential
* Band 8a: Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Physical Attributes
Essential
* Band 8a: Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
* Band 7: Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Band 8a: A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
* To transport Psychometric testing equipment.
* Band 7: Caring, Team Player, Commitment to supervision and support.
Special Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Band 8a: Good Psychometric Assessment skills.
* Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees.
* Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non verbal and written modes.
* Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance.
* Ability to Formulate Complex processes.
* Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment.
* Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.
* Keyboard skills.
* Manual Dexterity for conducting tests.
* Band 7: Communication skills, A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability), IT Literate.
Qualifications
Essential
* Band 8a: Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post, HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Band 7: Hons. Degree in Psychology, Doctoral qualification clinical psychology, Appropriate safeguarding training, Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
Experience
Essential
* Band 8a: Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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.
* Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration.
* Show respect and treat people with dignity.
* Be able to give bad news sensitively.
* Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations.
* Be aware of all interviewees in any situation.
* Band 7: Completion of supervised clinical practice in the NHS, Ability to work within two models of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
Employer details
Employer name
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Bretton Centre, Fieldhead, Ouchthorpe Lane, Wakefield, WF1 3SP
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