Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £26530.00 to £29114.00
Date posted: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 1st December 2024
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Job Description:
Come join our dynamic and passionate multidisciplinary team at The Haldon Eating Disorders Inpatient Service in Exeter. You will be joining a small supportive psychological team working with our 10 patients on the ward as well as supporting their families/carers and the wider team. There are opportunities to develop your psychological knowledge and skills across the clinical psychology competencies and to support the service as we develop.
Main duties of the job
* Taking a lead on co-developing plans with patients and their family/carers to support their emotional and sensory regulation. This involves working closely with the qualified psychologists, ward OT, and nursing team.
* Taking a lead on ensuring patient outcome measures are completed, analysed and reported to the monthly Governance meeting.
* Taking a lead with our Senior Peer Support Worker to facilitate our weekly community meeting with all patients to ensure our service develops based on patient feedback.
* Taking a lead with our Senior Peer Support Worker to co-run focus groups and to design and analyse online surveys for service development activities.
* Supporting Senior Leadership Team with data analysis on service provision to inform service development activities.
* Taking a lead on organising, documenting and disseminating weekly team formulation sessions, including liaising with external agencies.
* Join the team in supporting our patients in the dining room to eat when they are often distressed and modelling psychological care in action.
* Facilitating psychological and psychoeducation groups on the ward, developing these and co-facilitating alongside the qualified psychologists and Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
* Co-facilitating the monthly family/carers online group with the Family Therapy Assistant.
* Providing individual skills based sessions including mindfulness and exposure work.
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 Trusts 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
The principal purpose of this job is to support the team to improve the psychological health and wellbeing of people and their families who are being supported within the Haldon Eating Disorder Service and the proposed Assertive Outreach/Intensive Treatment programme which will be led by the Haldon team.
This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1. Under supervision, contributing to psychological assessment and individual, family or group interventions as appropriate.
2. Under supervision, contribute to the multidisciplinary therapeutic programme on the Haldon and, when operating, the Assertive Outreach programme which will involve travel around Devon and use of virtual platforms for online sessions.
3. Providing support to the Haldon Eating Disorder Senior Leadership Team in terms of developing and undertaking additional audit and research activities.
4. Supporting clinical staff to improve the quality and efficiency of reporting on Clinician Rated Outcome Measures, Patient Rated Outcome Measures and Patient Rated Experience Measures within the The Haldon Eating Disorder Service and Assertive Outreach programme.
5. The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy and with Professional Practice Guidelines set out by HCPC and the British Psychological Society.
6. The post holder will work within professional guidelines and DPT procedures and protocols.
7. The post holder will be supported by qualified psychological professionals, including Clinical Psychologists and by senior colleagues within the specialism. The post holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their skills.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological research and audit of services.
* Experience of working under supervision in secondary care adult mental health services.
* Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality.
* Experience of working clinically within inpatient settings.
* Experience of multidisciplinary working.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
* Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions.
* Organisational, planning and time management skills.
* Ability to work under pressure and cope with deadlines.
* Presentable.
* Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise.
* Ability to drive and access to own vehicle.
* An Enhanced DBS Check will be required for this role.
* Ability to work independently within a supervised context and defined occupational procedures and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams.
* Ability to work as a member of a clinical team.
* Ability to tolerate ambiguity and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
Knowledge
* Further training in research and evaluation methods.
Qualifications
* BA or BSc in Psychology recognised by the British Psychological Society.
* IT Skills.
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.
Professional Lead Clinical Psychologist Haldon
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