Location: Dawlish, EX7 0ND
Salary: £53755.00 to £60504.00
Date posted: 6th March 2025
Closing date: 23rd March 2025
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Job Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Inpatient Psychology Service at Langdon Hospital, for an appropriately qualified Band 8a practitioner psychologist to cover Maternity Leave. You will work as part of an innovative psychology team, which provides specialist psychological work to patients at Langdon Hospital, with the opportunity to work across the directorate.
The psychology team at Langdon includes experienced and enthusiastic clinical, forensic, counselling psychologists and arts therapists, trainee psychologists and a team of assistant psychologists, one each for our 5 wards across the Medium and Low Secure estate. Forensic mental health settings provide an enviable clinical environment in which to pursue clinical interests and develop specialism in areas such as risk assessment, offence focused work, individual or group work, trauma, psychosis, personality and relational difficulties, as well as cognitive and developmental difficulties. The work can involve a range of assessment and therapeutic approaches, modalities and timeframes.
Main duties of the job
* Being an autonomous practitioner responsible for your own clinical activity and accountable for observing and interpreting professional and Trust guidelines for professional conduct including accurate record keeping.
* Providing consultation, advice, and clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies including Band 7 Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Trainee and undergraduate Psychologists.
* Devising, supervising and formulating a client's presenting difficulties, based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual frameworks and evidence-based practice.
* Delivering individual and group interventions.
* Meeting appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. Standards of practice will include those defined by: the British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology); the HCPC and/or other relevant bodies such as UKCP and Devon Partnership Trust.
* Keeping adequate clinical records in accordance with Trust guidance.
* Undertaking risk and other assessments (where relevant) and collaborating on the risk management of individuals together with the multi-disciplinary team.
* Undertaking other responsibilities e.g. quality improvement initiatives or service development/evaluation projects to ensure an ever improving, high quality, professional service.
* Communicating in a clear, professional, skilled and sensitive manner.
About us
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job responsibilities
Communication & Working Relationships
* Clients, family and others: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with service users with a mental health, learning disability, challenging behaviour and/or personality disorder who may have specific difficulties in understanding and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
* Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely, collaboratively and supportively with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated psychological consultation and intervention service on a day-to-day basis.
* To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
* Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers in the secure directorate to foster a positive approach to the inpatient service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning & Organisation
* The psychology service: To plan and organise the work of the psychology provision in the inpatient service and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within the commissioned service to DPT, to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
* The multi-disciplinary service: To provide psychology leadership to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of Support to Succeed.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Qualified Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol.) or equivalent e.g. Forensic Psychologist or Counselling Psychologist, with eligibility for Chartered Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society.
* Registration with HCPC/BABCP/UKCP/Other Specialist regulatory body.
* Further training in forensic psychology or specialist area relevant to forensic settings.
* Further training in one or more psychological therapies, e.g. CBT, EMDR, CAT, Schema.
* Supervision Training.
Skills and Abilities
* Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills.
* Strong leadership qualities, resilience and ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty.
* Skills in managing conflict, negotiation & achieving consensus in complex situations in the pursuit of agreed strategic aims.
* Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long-term perspective.
* Organisation and time management skills. Ability to prioritise and work responsively and flexibly to manage individual, supervisee and organizational goals.
Experience
* Broad knowledge of forensic services; and of the services in the NHS where clinical psychology is commonly applied.
* Extensive knowledge of the evidence base, skills and practice of Clinical/Forensic/Counselling Psychology.
* Knowledge of the policy context of services to DPT and of leadership in this setting.
* Experience of work in Forensic Services in a range of service settings or agencies.
* Skills in applying complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and management.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision of psychologists.
* Experience in undertaking leadership roles within clinical psychology services in the NHS, and in contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies and clinical policies in multi-disciplinary, multi-agency contexts.
* Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
* Experience of providing a range of assessments, formulation and therapies to address forensic as well as mental health difficulties.
* Experience of providing supervision for qualified psychologists, trainees and assistant psychologists in psychological therapies to address forensic and mental health difficulties.
* Experience of leadership and proven outcomes in service development.
* Innovation and creative development and implementation of evidence-based therapies.
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.
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