Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary community rehabilitation team. We are in a period of skill development with the wider workforce and embedding trauma informed approaches across our rehabilitation services. There is also a strong emphasis on family and carer inclusive practice, including a focus on expanding our provision of family interventions for individuals experiencing psychosis.
Band 7 to Band 8a development post will be considered. We welcome applications from candidates who are in the final stages of training and seeking their first qualified position.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
1. Provide a specialist psychological service to service users within the Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS).
2. Provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and interventions.
3. Provide clinical supervision, advice and consultation to colleagues, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care and treatment.
4. Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity, and underpinned by principles of recovery and knowledge of trauma informed approaches.
5. Support the development and roll out of Trauma Informed Approaches across HPFT rehabilitation services as we change the question people ask from "What's wrong with you?" to "What's happened to you?"
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach Service (EROS), based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client's mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and employing methods of proven efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of evidence-based psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To provide specialist psychological supervision, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to client formulations, diagnoses and treatment plans.
To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory with a focus on Trauma Informed Approaches.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
* Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, or fully completed training as a Counselling Psychologist.
* Some experience working as a qualified practitioner with clients with severe mental illness within a mental health setting.
* Experience of working within rehabilitation or adult community mental health services.
* Current full registration with HCPC.
* Training in risk assessment and management.
* Post-qualification training in assessment and intervention models in one or more of the following: CBT, Systemic Therapy, Family Interventions.
* Experience of supervising qualified clinical staff from a range of professional backgrounds including HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologists.
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
* 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, including those with physical health conditions and or long-term conditions across the whole life span's presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental well-being.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two evidence based psychological interventions including CBT, Systemic Therapy or Family Interventions.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment within the context of multidisciplinary care.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the fields of Clinical / Counselling Psychology.
* Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration.
* Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks.
* Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures.
* Awareness of current NHS initiatives and developments.
* Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to adult mental health and psychological working in long term conditions, such as personality disorder.
* Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients in mental health crisis.
* Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
* Experience of service quality monitoring e.g. clinical audit, evaluative research, etc.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or offering supervision.
* Experience of service development/project management.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Ability to work and communicate therapeutically with clients and their families consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating.
* Ability to work and communicate as a responsible participating member of a multi-disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members' contributions and to encourage participation of all involved.
* Ability to keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
* Ability to alert line manager / team when direction, policies and strategies are adversely affecting users of services or the public.
* Ability to time manage effectively and to work under pressure and to prioritise a clinical workload.
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
* Positive problem-solving approach.
* Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work.
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.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£48,270 to £62,626 a year per annum pro rata (+ 5% fringe HCAS included)
#J-18808-Ljbffr