Main area Planned Care in the Mental Health Division
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 338-6863970-24
Site: Goole Community Mental Health Services
Town: Goole
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job Overview
We are recruiting to a 0.6 wte 8a clinical or counselling psychology post working into Community mental health services in Goole. This is an interesting time inherent with opportunity to join our Community Mental Health Service as we continue to develop the CMHT transformation work with a compassion focused trauma informed approach.
You will be working alongside the Principal Clinical Psychologist for CMHTs and other psychological therapies staff within the Goole locality.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be providing consultation, support for staff, reflective practice groups, supervision of staff (qualified CMHT staff, other psychological professionals, clinical psychology trainees, and assistant psychologists), assessment, formulation, direct clinical work, training, and evaluation to ensure that your team has the greatest impact on recovery and a positive client journey.
You will play a pivotal role in helping the team to continue improving its practice and to provide good, co-ordinated, structured clinical care whilst maintaining staff well-being.
We are looking to our band 8's to provide clinical leadership alongside the team and clinical leads as well as steering service development and supporting psychologically driven and underpinned assessment and treatment pathways.
Working for our Organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for details.
We would welcome an informal chat or visit prior to applying or prior to interview. We can also arrange an MS Teams meeting with the clinical lead, current post holder, Principal Psychologist for Community mental health services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent (if trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
* To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC.
* Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice.
* Completion of training enabling supervision of psychology trainees at doctoral level.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more specialised areas of psychology.
* Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., complex PTSD, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities, etc).
* Currently on or imminently completing the ISW supervision course or similar to enable the supervision of doctoral level psychology trainees.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical or counselling psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held.
* 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.
* Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.
Skills and Competencies
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising.
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship.
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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