This post offers an exciting opportunity for a dynamic senior psychologist within the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale Community Learning Disability Team, part of the wider North Yorkshire, York & Selby Learning Disability Service. The service consists of a supportive multidisciplinary team based at Eastfield Clinic, Scarborough, which offers specialist health services to adult service users who live with a learning disability, their families, and carers, and works closely with statutory agencies and care providers.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. The vacancy is open to an existing Band 8A psychologist or an experienced Band 7 psychologist wishing to progress in their career.
The post offers many exciting developmental and creative opportunities.
The post holder will have a key role in providing psychological assessments, formulations, and interventions to service users, their families, carers, and staff teams. This may be through direct therapeutic support using various adapted psychological approaches or indirect work with a service user's support system using psychologically informed thinking.
An additional element to this role is offering neuropsychological assessments to service users, alongside reflective practice, consultation, and supervision. An interest in working with Trauma Informed Care approaches would be welcomed.
Main duties of the job
Applicants should ideally have experience in working within Learning Disability services and show strong patient-centred values. The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, motivated, and demonstrate a commitment to delivering excellent health care and evidence-based practice. You will be working alongside a supportive team and opportunities to develop special interests and co-work will be encouraged.
In addition, the post holder will have a valued role in the team's collective leadership group, alongside opportunities for research and service development. Our service has strong links with the Doctoral Clinical and Counselling Psychology Programmes at Teesside, Hull, and York St Johns Universities. The post holder will be involved in offering trainee placements and University teaching. There are excellent opportunities for peer support, supervision, CPD, training, research, and audit within the wider trust and psychological professions network. We are happy to discuss flexible working. Opportunities to work from home where appropriate are very much supported if wanted by the post holder. We are also very keen to support practitioners obtain further professional training (e.g., EMDR, FlashEMDR, CAT, PBS, Systemic Family Therapy, etc). You will be working in an area of natural beauty across the North Yorkshire coast and North York Moors. Our trust is also invested in staff wellbeing opportunities, which is very much supported by the team.
About us
We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time.
Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient-centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To Change (OJTC).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees.
* Trained in care co-ordination.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable
* Registration with BPS.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential
* Trained or working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
* Has exercised clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
* Risk assessment and risk management.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people.
Employer details
Employer name
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Eastfield Clinic, Westway, Scarborough, YO11 3EG
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