Would you like to be at the forefront of innovative service development? Are you good at building relationships, working with teams and promoting new ways of doing things?
We are looking for forward-thinking Clinical Psychologists (Band 8a) who are passionate and enthusiastic about transforming mental health services.
Across Derbyshire, our newly developed Living Well service aims to offer short-term multi-agency/multi-disciplinary services to people who have complex mental health needs, who would have previously fallen between primary and secondary care mental health services. Living Well teams have formed across the county of Derbyshire and Derby City, and NHS, Social Care and Voluntary Sector organisations work together within each team to provide person-centred care and a joined-up way of providing services. Joining a county-wide small team of psychologists, the roles will support service developments, offer training, consultation, support and supervision to the Living Well teams to promote psychologically informed interventions and trauma-informed care.
You will be committed to co-production and multidisciplinary team working and have excellent relationship skills, whilst capable of managing varied work demands. We are recruiting up to 1.6 wte and welcome applications from people who would like to work full time or part time (with a minimum of three days for part-time workers).
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a small psychology team which will develop, oversee and deliver short-term psychologically informed offers in the Living Well teams. You will provide direct clinical work, predominantly group work, jointly with colleagues. You will promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, and the wider organisation and contribute to service development. You will promote trauma-informed care and support the development and supervision of trauma stabilisation work in Living Well, as well as other psychologically informed interventions. You will offer research skills and service evaluation/development. There will be a small amount of provision of individual therapy within a CMHT context as part of the overall role, but group work, consultation, supervision and service development will form the majority of the role.
We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups e.g., CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.
Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team reports feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.
About us
Join our team of nearly 300 staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values-based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place-based and needs-led integrated care across our localities, with trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.
If you would like to join our friendly Psychological Therapies team, please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate and Trust. We are flexible in creating mutually agreeable job plans. We warmly welcome inquiries for informal discussions and around options.
Job responsibilities
Some remote working and travel will be required by the role. We are open to discussions about flexible working options, depending on service needs. Please specify in your application your preference for full-time or part-time role, including preferred number of hours if part-time. Please state under Supporting Information.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
* Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above) giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
* Postgraduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS and giving eligibility for membership of the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
* Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS
* Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
* Able to demonstrate significant post qualification specialist training/experience through having provided assessment and intervention to people with complex, severe and enduring mental health/psychological problems including with personality disorder and complex trauma under clinical supervision
* Chartered status with the BPS
* Post qualification training in a therapy model
Experience
* Experience of working with people with a range of mental health/psychological problems and across a variety of settings
* Expertise and interest in a specialist area relevant to adult mental health.
* Experience of facilitating psychologically informed psychoeducation groups/psychological therapy groups
* Experience of providing training in trauma/trauma-informed care to others
* Experience of offering supervision (ideally including trauma-related work) to other psychologists or clinical members of multi-disciplinary teams
Knowledge & Skills
* Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance and relate effectively in an emotive and hostile environment
* Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets
Personal
* Possess enthusiasm for psychology in relation to mental health problems. Interest in developing/consolidating skills in working with complex trauma and people meeting criteria for diagnosis of 'personality disorder'
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
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.
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