Job summary
Swanwick Lodge is a secure children's home caring for up to 10 young people who are held under section 25 of the Children's Act, on welfare placements. The home is run by Hampshire County Council, who deliver the care and education for the young people in the home. Young people typically stay for around 6 months, but this can vary based on their individual needs.
The post holder will join an engaging, friendly and supportive team that is a valued resource within the home. The health and wellbeing team is commissioned separately to the care and education elements in the home, but we work together very closely with our integrated colleagues to understand and meet the needs of the young people. As part of integrated working our delivery is scaffolded by the SECURE STAIRS framework and a central part of our role is to offer wellbeing support to the wider team including the delivery of training and a variety of reflective spaces. This is to promote a system wide, trauma informed approach to the understanding of the young people.
As Clinical Lead for the Health and Wellbeing Team you will be responsible for providing clinical leadership for the team and the delivery of the SECURE STAIRS framework.
The role is offered as a 12 month fixed term or secondment maternity cover. The role is up to full time, and applicants wished to work on a part time basis will also be considered.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a systemic psychology service of a high quality to the multidisciplinary team, and across all sectors of care.
2. To promote an integrated approach enhancing the delivery of trauma informed care.
3. To provide psychological assessment and therapy to young people within the service.
4. To provide advice and consultation through formulation, on psychological intervention and risk to non-psychologist colleagues, external agencies, and non-professional carers.
5. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.
6. To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the area served by the service.
7. To undertake a personal research and development programme and develop and encourage a research culture within the clinical team.
8. To provide leadership, consultation, supervision and support to psychologists and other members of the clinical team who provide psychologically based care and treatment within this setting.
9. To provide clinical placements for trainee applied psychologists, Clinical Associate Psychologists, and Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioners.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
* Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
* Management/leadership training.
Experience
Essential
* In depth experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
* Experience of providing Neuropsychological Assessment.
* Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
* Experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision.
Desirable
* Post-qualification experience in secure/inpatient/forensic or other relevant clinical settings.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Additional Criteria
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Swanwick Lodge
Glen Road, off Swanwick Lane
Southampton
Hampshire
SO31 7HD
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