Band 8a (Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will be considered)
Main area: Adult Community Hub - Mental Health Division
Grade: Band 8a (Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will be considered)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6655122-B
Site: Brooker Centre
Town: Runcorn
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 06/12/2024
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce.
Job overview
*** A Band 7 - Band 8a Preceptorship/Development will also be considered for this post ***
An exciting opportunity to provide a qualified clinical psychology service to individuals within the Halton Recovery Team providing psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on individuals’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professionals. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of Trust policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service team, across all relevant sectors within an equality and human rights framework. To provide specialist psychological assessment and therapy, offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other, non-professional carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Directorate’s and team’s policies and procedures.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its approved equivalent accredited by the BPS
* Registration with Health Professions Council as Practitioner Psychologist
* Postgraduate/doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* UKCP, BABCP or BACP Accreditation (or equivalent).
Knowledge/Experience
* Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist or senior psychotherapist at a specialist level for a significant period.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
Skills
* Well developed and effective communication skills, oral and written, to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
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