Employer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Horizon House and Unither House
Town: Epsom
Salary: £55,877 - £62,626 (Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS) per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/01/2025 23:59
8a Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist (two work locations)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
The Intensive Support Team offers therapeutically-informed assessments for individuals with dementia who reside in care homes. This is guided by the principles of the Newcastle Model and Positive Behaviour Support, offering evidence-based approaches to promote the wellbeing of people with dementia. To succeed in this role, you will have the confidence to engage with a range of stakeholders, including the person, relatives, professionals, and care home staff.
You will draw on your professional skills and knowledge to assess/respond to distress behaviours in dementia, as part of a stepped-care service, by delivering interventions that focus on unmet needs of people using services. You will offer specialist training, supervision, and share ideas informed by psychological theory and practice. There is an emphasis on partnership working and engaging with people working across statutory/voluntary sectors to facilitate a whole-system approach to care delivery for people with dementia.
You will be co-located with the CMHTOP (9-5, Mon-Fri) in the Mid Surrey hub in Horizon House, 28 Upper High St, Epsom KT17 4QJ three days (0.6 WTE) per week and the North West Surrey hub in Unither House, Curfew Bell Rd, Chertsey KT16 9FG two days (0.4 WTE) per week.
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for the systematic provision of specialist assessments for people with dementia who present with complex presentations or behaviour that challenges.
* To deliver high quality direct (assessment and therapeutic) and indirect (consultative, advisory, and evaluative) specialist psychological interventions by making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
* To act as a person-centred leader and role model at all times to inspire others to deliver high quality, dignified care for people with dementia.
* To ensure the clinical effectiveness of your own practice and the functioning of the service by undertaking audit, research, and service development activities relevant to the service area.
* To operate as part of a multidisciplinary team and work closely with primary care services, statutory/voluntary agencies, and service users & carers.
* To work autonomously within the clearly defined boundaries of the role, as well as carrying out specific clinical tasks and responsibilities that may cross professional demarcations of care.
* To offer clinical supervision to CMHTOP Care Home Pathway colleagues (non-psychologists) and Assistant Psychologists.
* To take a leadership role within defined sectors of the Trust (Mid Surrey and NW Surrey) and work collaboratively with the Care Home Pathway Lead within the CMHTOPs to ensure the care home pathway functions well within those regions.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description and personal specification document for more information on the requirement for this job.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology qualification or equivalent
* Completion of an appropriate clinical supervision course to enable supervision of trainees (or completion within 12 months of commencement in post)
Registration
* Is registered with HCPC or will achieve this within 6 months
Experience
* Experience of working with people from across the life span with a range of mental health issues and cognitive profiles
* Experience across a range of psychological models including systemic, behavioural and individual therapeutic
* Demonstrable post registration/clinical experience and competency relevant to this care group.
* Experience of contributing to clinical practice/service development / project work.
* Experience of supervising assistant and trainee clinical psychologists
* Demonstrable interest/skill in a relevant specialist area.
* Previous experience of working in dementia care
* Previous experience supporting care homes
* Previous experience practicing within a Positive Behaviour Support and trauma-informed care framework.
* Previous experience of assessment and delivering psychological interventions in older age
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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 Fiona Perella
Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist & IST Lead
Email address: fiona.perella@sabp.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01932 587 032
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