We would welcome applications from those soon to be or recently qualified seeking a Band 7 to 8a preceptorship agreement.
We are enthused by the commitment within the Older People and Frailty Division (OPFD) to the expansion of new psychological provision throughout our mental health and dementia pathways. This started with the appointment of two Consultant Clinical Psychologists, to complement an existing Consultant. The advertised posts have been designed to further service developments and continue to embed psychological ways of working within community teams. These roles provide a real opportunity to significantly shape the service provision and care for the older people of Lincolnshire.
The development in the last 6 months includes: creating trainee placements, establishing reflective practice sessions, registering as a site in national research regarding Compassion Focused Therapy in Older People, obtaining funded training for existing LPFT staff to increase psychological provision, made cross-divisional links, and strong links with the Faculty of Psychology for Older People (FPOP) wherein we are co-facilitating the 2025 FPOP conference, on top of the clinical endeavours expected from service provision.
If you are innovative, proactive and would like to work to trailblaze new provision, and, importantly, have a passion for working with older people then these new roles will ensure an exciting and satisfying remit and career potential.
Main duties of the job
Service development: projects, audit and service evaluation to enhance provision including Trauma Informed Care approaches, demonstration of the efficacy of treatment models and creating and maintaining relationships with neighbouring internal and external agencies to ensure psychological elements relevant to older people are constantly considered.
- Recruitment and supervision of growing numbers of psychological staff, and clinical support to non-psychology colleagues.
- Provision of placements for trainees from local DClinPsy, as well as other relevant courses.
- Client care: hold an independent caseload for specialist assessment, formulation and intervention (including augmented therapeutic input), provision of consultation, manage referrals and waiting list, and associated documentation relevant to client care.
- Maintain own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note this vacancy may close early if there are sufficient applications.
Please review the attached Job Description and Person Specification for complete details regarding this post. When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role requirements.
The CMHTs have not previously had substantive psychologists in post, and therefore these post holders will work with the Consultant leads to establish the remit of the roles and embed psychological ways of working throughout the teams.
This job will involve engaging team members in, and extolling the virtue of what can be provided as an applied practitioner psychologist: training, supervision, consultation, reflective practice, formulation groups, joint assessment, as well as the tailored provision of specialist psychological therapy where necessary on a 1:1, or group basis. Alongside the clinical work will be an expectation to support the service development activities of the Consultant with a view to further expanding psychological provision for older people with mental health difficulties and dementia throughout the county.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychotherapies, and lifespan developmental psychology.
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) upon completion of doctoral training.
* Eligibility for Chartered Status with the BPS.
Desirable
* Training in the provision of clinical supervision.
* Post-doctorate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with older adults.
* Experience of working with individuals with cognitive impairment and/or dementia, and individuals with complex and acute mental health difficulties.
* Experience of working with carers/families/relatives.
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
* Experience of neuropsychological/psychometric assessment.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups across the life course and presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity utilising complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation and intervention.
* Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
* Knowledge and experience of facilitating team formulations, and providing consultation and psychological opinion to MDT colleagues.
Desirable
* Experience and interest in working in older adult inpatient settings or home treatment teams.
* Experience of facilitating reflective practice groups.
* Experience of contributing to quality improvement or service evaluation projects.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision.
* Involvement with the Faculty of Psychology for Older People, BPS or other organisations focused on the psychological needs of Older People.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Skills
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment including assessment of risk, and subsequent care planning to address identified needs.
* Skills and ability to develop comprehensive formulations using a range of information and based on theoretical models.
* Knowledge in the appropriate use of outcome measures and evaluation of clinical effectiveness.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex data analysis.
* Ability to demonstrate empathy and compassion, and to foster effective working relationships.
* Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing with an ability to express complex, technical and highly sensitive information to service users, carers/families/relatives, and other professional colleagues adapting the communication style to suit the audience.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to develop effective relationships.
* Experience of providing teaching/training, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Proficiency in keyboard skills, word processing, and Internet and email use.
* Ability to organise and manage own caseload, clinical activities, and communications and working relationships with other professionals and agencies.
* Ability to appropriately respond to and manage clinical situations in which verbal or physical aggression may present.
Desirable
* Knowledge of specialised theory and psychological frameworks for working with older adults presenting with acute mental health difficulties, and behaviours that challenge in dementia.
* Knowledge of national guidance and legislation in relation to working with older adults.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Special requirements
Essential
* Ability to manage logistics of appointments in different parts of the county, and therefore have a full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
* Ability to engage in sustained and intense concentration, and sit/stand in restricted positions for extended periods of time.
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
County wide services
Bases to be confirmed
LN6 8UZ
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