Consultant Psychologist In-patient Services
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
We are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Clinical or Counselling Psychologist to provide overall clinical and managerial leadership for the Psychological Professions staff within the Acute Adult Inpatients service in Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). This service supports the recovery of people between the ages of 18 to 65 years who require a period of in-patient assessment, formulation and intervention focused on complex emotional needs &/or psychosis.
The role will hold overall responsibility for the governance and delivery of psychological assessments, interventions and trauma-informed care across in-patient services. The post-holder will work clinically into the Welland centre, supporting the team to ensure that admissions are goal-focused, person-centred, engaging families and networking people into resources within their communities. The role will also involve providing managerial and clinical supervision to Psychological Professions Staff across both in-patient sites.
As the Lead Psychologist in this area, the role would involve developing a recruitment and retention strategy for psychological professions staff within in-patient services, as well as working with the Clinical Director, Assistant Director and Head of Service to provide overall leadership across adult in-patient services. Any experience of, or wish to pursue training in, the role of multi-professional Approved/Responsible Clinician would be welcomed.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide highly developed specialist psychological assessments, formulations and related interventions to support people experiencing an in-patient admission as part of their recovery journey.
2. To support the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that admissions are goal-focused, person-centred, engaging families and networking people into resources within their communities.
3. To provide supervision to other clinical staff as required.
4. To work as part of the senior leadership team within the acute pathway, supporting developments in co-production and related service development.
5. To work with other Consultant grade Psychologists across other specialties, and other senior managerial and clinical staff in the Care Delivery Pathway as required to integrate and co-ordinate care to support service user recovery.
6. Having presence at multi-agency meetings to support the care of in-patients with the most complex needs, incorporating formulation of their presentation to guide decision making around discharge and transition.
7. Working with the senior leadership team to improve the service user pathway for established community programmes, such as Structured Clinical Management, ensuring consistency across the county, as well as transition from inpatient to community services as regards access to psychological therapy.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
In addition to the benefits offered under the NHS terms and conditions of service, this post additionally attracts an incentive of £5000 pro rata for the successful applicant/s paid over the first 18 months of employment. Please note incentive payments are not applicable to existing NHFT substantive staff. Terms and conditions apply. In addition, a relocation package is available up to £8,000, if the successful postholder relocates to Northamptonshire and meets other eligibility criteria. This is subject to approval.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Knowledge, experience and skill
* Doctoral qualification in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent
* HCPC registered practitioner psychologist
* Experience of working with complex mental health presentations
* Formal training in clinical supervision
* Experience of working within in-patient services
* Experience of engagement in co-production
Knowledge, experience and skills
* Experience in clinical leadership
* Experience of delivering clinical supervision across a range of disciplines
* Training, or interest in developing skills in the Multi-professional Approved/Responsible Clinician role
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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