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Job overview
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Principal Clinical Psychologist to join our Pennine Care Learning Disability Care Hub.
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the Learning Disability Care Hub. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe that a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices, and publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to make sure everyone has a voice.
Main duties of the job
The Learning Disabilities Care Hub includes five Community Learning Disability Teams across the footprint of Pennine Care. Clinical Psychology is valued locally within our community teams and within the wider Trust. Working base will be discussed at interview.
We offer a robust supervision and development structure. You will be part of an expanding, energetic, innovative Learning Disability Care Hub team that values co-production and working alongside people with lived experience and promotes trauma-informed care.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a multi-agency team, working alongside clinical psychologists, community learning disability nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, and other multidisciplinary mental health practitioners. The Learning Disability Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams delivering services to adults aged 18+ years and with some provision to children and young people.
The postholder will collaborate with other Clinical Psychologists from across the Learning Disability Care Hub to take an active role in coordinating service development and engagement by supporting:
* Service delivery including development and delivery of psychological pathways
* Development and delivery of training
* Conducting research, audit, and evaluation
Working for our organisation
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop. Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
* Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
* Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
* Access to Continued Professional Development
* Involvement in improvement and research activities
* Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
* Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and direction in the continual development and provision of excellence in applied psychology for the Learning Disability care hub. Responsibilities include:
* To ensure the provision of a high-quality clinical psychology pathway.
* To provide highly specialized psychological assessment whilst offering advice and consultation on service users' psychological care to other colleagues and different professional groups.
* To contribute to research, audit, policy, and service development.
* To propose and implement policy changes within the areas served.
* To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust's policies and procedures.
* To provide clinical supervision and consultation to individuals and groups of staff across the learning disability care hub, including psychology staff.
* To provide support and cover for the provision of psychology services across the care hub footprint.
* To play an active role in the promotion of psychology and representation of learning disability practitioner psychologists across the care hub and wider systems.
* To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* To develop and engage in pathway development, ensuring the application of trauma-informed models of care, using least restrictive practice.
* To lead on care planning for service users in receipt of psychology and engage with their families and carers.
* To undertake highly specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use and interpretation of complex data from various sources.
* To undertake clinical duties as necessary to support the psychology offer within the Learning Disabilities care hub.
* To develop psychological formulations of complex difficulties to inform the team's understanding, treatment, and management of these difficulties; discharge planning; and when appropriate recommendations for further assessment and intervention after discharge.
* To provide appropriate structured psychological interventions and psychological therapies.
* To support the development and delivery of therapeutic, psychoeducational or skills development groups as need dictates.
* To harness and support the development of psychosocial skills of other team members by providing clinical supervision, consultation, training and liaison work and opportunities for co-working.
* To develop and maintain appropriate psychosocial supervision frameworks.
* To contribute to the appropriate risk assessment and risk management by providing training and consultation to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
* To promote team working and constructive relationships with multi-disciplinary colleagues.
* To collaborate with the multi-disciplinary teams across the care hub on the development of best practice.
* To promote a trauma-informed model of care across the care hub.
* To provide support, leadership and containment for colleagues working across the care hub.
* To consider and proactively support staff's wellbeing, including facilitation of debriefs following any incidents and facilitating reflective practice sessions as need dictates.
* To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical psychologists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
* To gain highly specialised/extended expertise in particular psychological approaches and/or with client groups and/or in management through further specialist supervision and experience supported by a programme of professional development as identified in an agreed personal development plan.
* To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical line management supervision to psychology staff working in the unit and the wider care hub.
* To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other professionals for their provision of psychologically informed assessment and psychologically based interventions.
* To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate.
* To maintain and develop skills in pre-and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
* To contribute to personal development / performance reviews for psychology staff across the care hub.
* To actively participate in continuing professional development involving a variety of activities including attending seminars, conferences, reading and courses.
* To be responsible for maintaining up to date records of any CPD or mandatory training activities undertaken.
* To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible service for the care hub including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
* To exercise responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to the teams, whether in the form of other qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff, or in the form of psychological materials used in the assessment and treatment of adults, families, and carers.
* To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the care hub.
* To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, clinical associates in psychology, and qualified clinical psychologists.
* To take the psychology lead, as a senior clinician in the evaluation, monitoring and development of aspects of the team's clinical practice, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
* To utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
* To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
* To initiate project management working in conjunction with the care hub Project Manager, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve services to service users and their families.
* To promote a person-centred service philosophy for service users and carers.
* Ensure, as far as practicable, the full involvement of service users - and where appropriate, relatives and carers - in the assessment of service user needs and the formulation and review of their care plans.
* Promote user and carer involvement in the recruitment and training of staff.
* Promote user and carer involvement in the evaluation and development of service.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS
* Current registration as a clinical psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
* Completion of further post qualification training within psychological therapies (e.g. DBT, CBT, CAT, CFT, MBT etc.).
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of clinical leadership within a previous role.
* Demonstrable experience of providing clinical supervision to psychologists, psychological therapists or other core health professions.
* Demonstrable experience of providing teaching/ training upon clinical interventions.
* Demonstrable experience of managing demand for psychological services and supporting other professionals in their provision of direct psychosocial work.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Knowledge of the national and regional legislation, guidance and policy directives in relation to the development and delivery of psychological therapies with people with a Learning Disability.
* Knowledge of legal frameworks, other guidance and processes around safeguarding adults.
* Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
* Knowledge of relevant national and local service drivers for transformation and service development within Learning Disability services.
* Evidence of post-qualification CPD as recommended and/or accredited by the BPS, or other professional body.
* Up to date knowledge of evidence based psychological practices for adults with a Learning Disability.
* Awareness of the principles of a trauma informed care approach.
Desirable criteria
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and approaches for adults with a Learning Disability.
* Publication of training, service evaluation, clinical audit and research material.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
* Familiarity with computing technology, including keyboard skills, and use of word-processing, e-mail, and internet software.
* Ability to work with service users, carers and families to engage with their needs and provide them with appropriate psychological support and intervention.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Well developed, effective communication skills, both oral and in writing, enabling complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to be shared with service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within the NHS and other agencies.
* Ability to prioritise work, operate a waiting list, meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern that requires regular revision of plans.
* Ability to sit in constrained position for service user assessment, formulation, individual and group therapy sessions and for computer work.
* Ability to work at a high level of professional autonomy and responsibility, in a collaborative multi-disciplinary environment and also as a lone worker in circumstances where there may be exposure to verbal and sometimes physical aggression.
* Able to sustain the intense concentration necessary for service user assessment and formulation, individual and group therapy sessions.
* Ability to work and communicate highly sensitive, contentious information effectively in a highly emotive or hostile atmosphere, and to overcome barriers to acceptance/psychological resistance to potentially threatening information.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to staff and carers exposed to highly distressing situations.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable criteria
* 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 demonstrate an area of special interest/skill in therapeutic intervention.
* Ability to move equipment (including case files, bulky neuropsychological tests, self-help materials, audio-visual equipment) between office base and other work settings.
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
* Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs.
* Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies.
* Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.
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Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and requirements on the government website.
What happens after your application has been received?
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:
* Identity verification
* Right to work check
* Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
* Professional registration and/or qualification check
* Occupational health assessment
* Employment history and reference validation
All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will be used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.
If you are offered a position with us and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offered is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.
What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?
Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.
Other important information
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider the brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
* If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
* If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
* Unfortunately, we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
* We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure your application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.
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