We are delighted to advertise for a full-time band 8a clinical psychologist or highly specialist psychotherapist to join us at Bury Secondary Care Psychological Therapies Service. Applicants looking for band 7/8a preceptorship and part-time working will be considered.
We are a friendly and supportive team, consisting of clinical psychologists, a CBT therapist, and an administrator. We have close links to Bury Community Mental Health Team, with whom we share a base. We also provide regular support and supervision to associate psychological practitioners, mental health and wellbeing practitioners, and placements for trainee clinical psychologists.
The post-holder will support the delivery of an existing secondary care psychological therapies service within the community pathway. This includes individual therapy, joint interventions with OA CMHT clinicians, groups, consultation to OA CMHT staff, supervision, and training.
The team is currently working towards greater integration into the OA CMHT and welcomes applicants with experience and a keen interest in working collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary colleagues.
The post-holder will receive frequent clinical supervision and have regular access to a supportive peer supervision group.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Providing consultation and formulation to staff within the OA CMHT, OA HITs, and Ramsbottom Ward.
2. Delivering qualified specialist psychological therapy services for people referred to the secondary care community care pathway.
3. Providing specialist assessment, formulation, and interventions for a clinical caseload.
4. Supporting OA CMHT/OA HITs practitioners and developing a psychological understanding for service users and carers.
5. Working closely with MDTs to support the development of individual care-planning.
6. Proposing and implementing evidence-based practice, utilising research skills for audit and service developments.
Our service is based at Ribchester Centre in the centre of Bury. Here you will find the OA Outpatients, OA CMHT, OA Community Liaison, and OA HITs. Ramsbottom ward is a female Organic Ward based at Fairfield General hospital.
We have a good relationship with Bury OACMHT and work closely with our MDT colleagues, including social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, support workers, and consultant psychiatrists, who welcome collaborative working and psychological input.
All clinicians in the team are actively supported with their continued professional development. Funding opportunities are available to support attendance at one-off workshops/events and to undertake additional formal therapy training in line with our service needs.
To provide specialist psychological assessments based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations, and semi-structured interviews with service users and carers.
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of a client’s mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s problems, employing methods based on evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically-based standard care plans.
To provide specialist psychological support, consultation, and guidance to other professionals contributing directly to the service users’ assessment, formulation, and intervention plan.
To ensure that all members of the team have access to a psychologically-based framework for understanding and caring for the service user, through the provision of advice, consultation, and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To communicate and receive highly complex and contentious information in a skilled and sensitive manner, in the course of psychological assessment and therapy.
To provide training and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the teams.
To deliver a care package appropriate for the service user’s needs, coordinating the work of others involved with care, arranging service user reviews as required, and communicating effectively and monitoring progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.
To support clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists and other therapists, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other members of MDTs for their provision of psychologically-based interventions to help improve service users’ functioning.
To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
To contribute to the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant and trainee clinical psychologists.
To participate in the development of a high quality, responsive, and accessible service including advising both service and professional managers on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
To participate in the evaluation, monitoring, and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation, and audit, ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
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