South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
0.6 WTE Staff support and Women's Health Pathway - Permanent role
This post is an opportunity for an experienced and passionate clinical health psychologist to work across two established and effective services to deliver excellent psychological provision for staff and patients and to lead on the strategic development of each service.
The staff support service offers 1-1 and team-based approaches with the opportunity to contribute strategically to whole Trust developments in health and wellbeing. There is expertise in trauma intervention and scope to further develop trauma informed care across settings. There is a commitment to providing compassionate and skilled psychological care to a diverse workforce, including opportunities to work with the equality, diversity and inclusion leads to address discrimination, promote anti-racist practice and develop psychological safety. The post holder would provide leadership to the staff, engage with Trust stakeholders to develop services and co-create the strategic aims for the team.
The women's health pathway includes input to the maternity service, supporting patients presenting with birth trauma, secondary tokophobia and service related distress. We are working within and across services to develop input for neonates and the post holder would lead on further scoping and business cases to support the midwifery and maternity staff team.
Main duties of the job
To take the lead in the Strategic development and systematic provision of high quality, specialised clinical psychology programmes of care and advice to patients and staff working throughout South Warwickshire, covering all physical health specialties with a specific focus on the Staff Support service and Women's Health pathway.
To propose service changes and policy for all clinicians providing psychological care (MDT etc.) in the general patient group.
To provide highly specialist clinical health psychology assessment and therapy across the health economy for patient groups as negotiated with the Director.
To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on patient care to colleagues and carers.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise individual responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the patient groups described.
To utilise research skills for audit, service development and research within various patient specialties as negotiated with the Director
To support workforce development by training and supervision.
To be responsible for the allocation of resources, line and operational management of the clinicians working with the general patient care delivery.
To provide highly specialist teaching for the Birmingham, Warwick & Coventry University Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training courses and other training providers.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Job responsibilities
Clinical
To provide highly specialist psychological assessments requiring advance theoretical and practical knowledge of a variety of psychological models to a broad range of patients i.e. inpatients, hospice residents, nursing home residents, outpatients and members of staff employed by the Trust, referred to the clinical health psychology service. This will be based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, specialist knowledge within oncology & palliative care, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others who may be involved in the patients care.
To be responsible for formulating and implementing highly specialist psychological intervention plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a patients physical and psychological health problems based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients difficulties employing evidence-based methods of efficacy, across the full range of health-care settings.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, including members of staff, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To evaluate and decide on treatment options utilising physical and psychological theoretical and therapeutic models (e.g., systemic, cognitive-behavioural therapy) and highly complex factors, based on past psychological and mental health history and ongoing psychological developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group, as well as constraining factors associated with the patients medical treatment, physical health status and prognosis.
To decide upon appropriate courses of action (consulting as appropriate with supervisor / peers) and exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based treatment plans according to a professional code of conduct.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To facilitate a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all patients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the patient group.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating the planning and review of case conferences, advising on psychological management and reviewing psychological care for the individual with their family, carers, referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
To communicate complex information in a highly developed, skilled and sensitive manner (respectful of patient confidentiality as appropriate) concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients and their families/carers. This is to include situations that may present with hostility and high emotion or that involve overcoming major barriers to acceptance, and to monitor and review progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care. Information may be of a highly sensitive nature, e.g. child sexual abuse, domestic violence, suicidal ideation.
To provide highly specialist clinical assessment and therapy which will involve sitting still for substantial periods of time requiring intense concentration, exposure to aggression and highly emotive or distressing situations. To work face-to-face without staff nearby, with any associated risk of dealing with people with mental health problems such as aggression and self-neglect. This is in addition to the regular hazards of seeing inpatients, including exposure to infectious agents (such as MRSA) and offensive odours.
To provide expert advice and support, training and development to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the oncology and palliative care treatment teams.
To have an advanced theoretical and practical knowledge and experience of clinical health psychology services provided by the NHS and other agencies for patients with a broad range of health difficulties
Teaching, Training and Supervision
In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical professional supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines from a more senior clinical psychologist.
To continue with the development (and recording) of acquiring highly specialist experience and skills relevant to areas of interest in clinical psychology and/or the service through protected CPD (as agreed with the professional psychology manager following BPS/DCP guidelines up to two sessions per month).
To provide expert advice, consultation, training and supervision, to other members of the general team and specialities (as agreed) for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve patients functioning.
To undertake and continue developing skills in the teaching of psychologically related workshops to health professionals covering a range of related clinical topics on an individual or group basis (e.g. Stress Management, Breaking Bad News, assessment of psychological distress).
To contribute to, and continue developing skills, in the teaching of psychologically related workshops to patients e.g. Pain and Anxiety management / Adjustment to Illness.
To advise/support/provide professional and clinical supervision of Clinical Psychologist colleagues, trainee, assistant Clinical Psychologists and other psychological practitioners to develop necessary clinical skills, knowledge and competencies.
Management, Recruitment, Policy and Service Development
To continue to develop and manage and be responsible for the delivery a highly specialist psychology service to meet the psychological needs of general health psychology patients.
To work in partnership with other senior colleagues in the team to ensure development, co-ordination, evaluation and monitoring of a high quality, responsive service
To represent Clinical Psychology on relevant strategic planning groups for relevant patient groups to advise, as appropriate, senior clinicians and managers on psychological aspects of patient care and to contribute to the strategic business planning process.
To be aware of relevant government policies, reports, National Service Frameworks and clinical guidelines in relation to the development of the oncology and palliative care services.
To participate as a clinician in the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To support the working practices of clinical and non-clinical staff (students and postgraduates) within the framework of the service policies and procedures.
To participate, as appropriate, in the shortlisting and interviewing process as a member of the interview panel for assistant, trainee and qualified clinical psychologists.
To jointly plan psychology services for the general patient population with the Director of Clinical Health Psychology and team, and to advise the Director of necessary changes and developments in the service.
Research and Service Evaluation
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
To work in collaboration with universities and other agencies as appropriate.
General
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the postholders professional and service manager(s).
To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within and across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and annual appraisal. To include maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and its related disciplines through identified training needs.
To undertake responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society, HCPC and Trust policies and procedures.
To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national, local and reporting of Trust policies (through journals / courses / intranet / internet distribution) in relation to the specific patient groups.
To lead meetings within the department and across the general service and provide feedback to other team members as appropriate.
To be familiar with equipment in the department.
To drive to patients place of residence, or place of intervention (if appropriate) to conduct psychological assessment and appropriate intervention.
To observe personal duty of care taking into account health and safety issues for self and others.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice, and training in the supervision of other psychologists.
* HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist
* Post-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
* Experience of psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings
* Experience of working within Clinical Heath Psychology services with clinical experience in at least two specialties for (For example Oncology, Cardiology etc)
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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 service development and leading a service
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
* Over seven years post qualification experience
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
* Proven leadership skills
* Experience of professional management of qualified and prequalified clinical psychologists.
* Experience of representing the profession in local policy forums
Skills
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* High level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or 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 methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* 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 legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to relevant client group and the healthcare system.
Personal Qualities
* Compassionate and kind values driven approach to patient care.
* Communicates openly, honestly transparently and professionally and actively promotes team working and building forming strong working relationships.
* Drives service improvements, strong self-awareness with a desire to grow
Other
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
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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