Main area: Principal Clinical Psychologist
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Fixed term: 8 months (to cover Maternity leave)
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 373-SMH2211
Employer: Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Upton Lea Resource Centre
Town: Liverpool Road, Chester
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/11/2024 23:59
Principal Clinical Psychologist - 18-25 Service
Band 8b
Job overview
The Trust is seeking a Clinical Psychologist to join the newly formed 18-25 service covering the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership footprint. This post is a fixed term for 8 months 30 hours per week covering maternity leave.
The 18-25 service is a new team being developed to support young people who are transitioning across Children, Young People and Families services to Adult services or Learning Disabilities and Neuro-developmental services. This service has been developed on the back of the NHS Long Term plan which requires a service to be put in place that reaches across mental health services for CYP and Adults aged 0-25.
The 18-25 service has been designed to be a consultation and advice model; this service will not replace the services young people are currently accessing but will support MDT in decision and planning around the young person’s care.
The purpose of the 18-25 service is to provide senior clinician support to existing services to enable smooth planning for services for young people, this will come in the form of advice and recommendations regarding complex cases. The service will take a holistic view of the young person’s case, looking at supporting services to navigate health, social care and educational services, ultimately breaking down barriers for accessing pathways and services. It will focus on the aspirations and strengths of the young person.
Main duties of the job
Working within a multidisciplinary team, as an experienced Clinical Psychologist alongside a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, you will be responsible for the systematic provision of high quality, comprehensive, psychologically informed support for adults within the service. You will also be working collaboratively alongside statutory and voluntary organisations and committed to ensuring that personalised care-planning is consistent, empowering and underpinned by robust evidence base models.
The successful candidate will have well developed skills and experience of working with this population both at a direct clinical and ideally strategic level. You will also have a clinical caseload for direct psychological interventions. Supporting the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in service development, audit and evaluation will be further key aspects of the role in collaboration with the senior leadership team. As a senior member of the team, a large part of the role will be supporting other staff, offering a psychologically based understanding of our clients, both with colleagues and within wider multi-professional forums. You will be a key player who develops, contributes to and implements our strategic aims for the team.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registered with the Health Professions Council as a Clinical Psychologist
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice. Post-qualification specialist training in particular psychotherapeutic approaches e.g. cognitive analytic psychotherapy, dialectical behaviour therapy.
Knowledge
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
* Knowledge of attachment theory
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience 50 hours supervision in a specific modality, case presentations, group supervision supported by short courses approved by the Psychology Head of Service
* Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
Experience
* Assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist for a minimum of four years with 2 years at a highly specialist level.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
* Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care setting.
* Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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.
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