Are you interested in being part of transforming and developing an innovative service? Humber's Adult Autism Mental Health Support Service aims to enhance support for autistic adults and their families/carers during mental health crises. Additionally, the candidate will have the opportunity to work into Humber's Adult Autism Diagnostic Service (HAADS) one day per week.
If you are a dynamic individual with a drive to deliver highly specialised psychology input within a team that offers excellent service for autistic adults, please contact us.
As a principal clinical psychologist, the role will involve supporting and offering training to mental health crisis and inpatient services within the trust, providing expert advice and care formulations for their autistic service users. As a key member of Humber's Adult Autism Mental Health Support Service, you will also be integral in working alongside the team to develop and build the service to ensure the best support is being provided to those that need it.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for:
* Supporting teams across the unplanned division of mental health services to develop care formulations for their autistic service users.
* Supporting the development and learning of the staff within the team as well as unplanned services.
* Managing clinical issues arising within the team in the absence of the Clinical Team Leader.
* Ensuring a responsive, high-quality service is provided to the patients, staff, and systems that access the service.
* Undertaking autism diagnostic assessments under HAADS one day per week.
* Maintaining compliance with the trust's key performance indicators.
* Ensuring the delivery of a safe, caring, responsive, high-quality service for our service users, their families, and carers by ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, standard operating procedures, and protocols.
About us
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent accredited by the BPS.
* Skills in coordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.).
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, including a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held.
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
* 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.
* A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held.
Skills and Competencies
* Effective interpersonal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring, and teaching.
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
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.
£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum pro rata.
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