Main area: Community Recovery - Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6676334
Site: Brooker Centre
Town: Runcorn
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: Today at 23:59
Interview date: 10/11/2024
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Clinical Psychologist to work within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the Halton Recovery Team.
Halton Recovery Team is a large specialist secondary care community mental health team. The successful applicant would be part of a large team of psychologists, CBT/EMDR therapists, assistant psychologists, occupational therapists, mental health nurses, support workers, and psychiatry. You will be joining a hardworking and busy team providing holistic care/therapies to people who experience complex mental health difficulties.
We in Halton are at the forefront of Mersey Care’s Community Mental Health Transformation. We are working in partnership with our Primary Care colleagues to provide a seamless mental health offer. Our Recovery Teams provide high-quality intervention-based care in both high and low intensity formats. Training opportunities will be available, and you will be supported to follow CPD opportunities to further develop your career.
Main duties of the job
1. To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team at the Warrington Recovery Team, providing specialist psychological assessments, formulations, and therapeutic interventions to service users with complex psychological presentations.
2. To provide advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-Psychological Services colleagues and others involved in a service user’s care, working autonomously within professional guidelines.
3. The successful applicant will have responsibilities overseeing the operation of the Relational and Emotional Strengthening Pathway (RESP) as well as supporting the team to provide short-term crisis interventions for clients presenting to the Duty Team.
4. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
5. To provide teaching and training within the service and to other groups as required.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical:
1. To provide highly specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the Psychological Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients’ complex mental health problems.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialised psychological interventions for individuals and groups.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering theoretical and therapeutic models.
5. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
6. To provide specialist psychological advice and consultation to other professionals.
7. To ensure that comprehensive risk assessments on all patients within the service are carried out in line with policy.
8. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate.
9. To communicate and record information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.
10. To provide clinical leadership for therapy interventions for people within the Recovery Team.
Teaching, Training and Supervision:
1. To receive regular clinical and professional supervision from professional colleagues.
2. To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to psychological/nursing needs.
3. To provide professional clinical supervision of qualified, assistant level, and trainee staff.
4. To contribute to the pre and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychological/nursing service staff.
Management, Recruitment and Service Development:
1. To develop and apply professional skills in research, service evaluation, and audit.
2. To advise both service and professional management on psychological/nursing and/or organisational matters.
3. To be involved in the shortlisting and interviewing of new staff.
Research and Service Evaluation:
1. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice.
2. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff.
3. To contribute to the dissemination of any work undertaken.
General:
1. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice.
2. To maintain the highest standard of clinical record keeping.
3. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies.
Person specification
Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management.
* Well-developed skills in effective communication.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately.
* Ability to cope with unpleasant working conditions.
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology.
* Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Post-doctoral training in specialised areas of psychological practice.
Knowledge/ Experience
* At least 4 years’ experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment.
* Experience of working with complex presentations.
* Experience of working in inpatient and community services.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to client group.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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