North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
About
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands.
We are delighted to be have been awarded Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission. One of our key objectives is “to attract and inspire the best people to work here”. We’re proud to be only one of two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England rated Outstanding by the CQC, and we are not stopping there. Our aim is to be Outstanding in ALL we do and HOW we do it. And that’s OUR aim for YOU.
We strive to be recognised as a centre of excellence in both integrated and specialist care, bringing innovative solutions to the services we deliver and the strategies we develop, embedding a culture of continuous learning across our organisation, and supporting and inspiring others. This is reflected in our vision, quality priorities and values.
Our SPAR Quality Priorities are to deliver services that are Safe, Personalised, Accessible and Recovery-focused. Our Values make clear how we want to go about our business - these are to be Proud to CARE - being Compassionate, Approachable, Responsible and Excellent.
Key details
Location
Site: The Ashcombe Centre
Town: Stoke on Trent
Postcode: ST13 7ED
Major / Minor Region: Staffordshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term to cover maternity leave.)
Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata, per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
Main area: Senior Clinical Psychologist
Job overview
The Moorland CMHT are looking to recruit a Band 8a Senior Clinical Psychologist for 15 hours per week for a fixed term period of 12 months to cover maternity leave.
The successful candidate will be expected:
* To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
* To be proactive in continual service improvement within own area.
* To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
* To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
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Provides highly specialist psychological assessment of clients with highly complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Formulates plans for highly specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients’ mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
Implements a range of highly specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
Working for our organisation
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Adjusts and refines psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
Evaluates and makes decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
The post holder may be required to undertake duties not specified in the job description, but which are commensurate with the role and/or band as required by service need.
The post holder may be required to work in locations other than those specified in the job description as required by service need.
The post holder may be required to work flexible hours as required by service need.
There may be a requirement to change the job description in light of developing service needs.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity. We offer a variety of flexible working opportunities for both full and part time staff. Job Share applicants will be fully considered and applications are particularly welcomed from current and previous service users.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
* 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.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Doctoral level knowledge of Evidence-based practice relevant to the role.
* Risk assessment and risk management.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Charlotte Handley
Job title: Team Leader
Email address: [email protected]
Additional information:
Louise Joy Johnson
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
[email protected]
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