Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Learning Disabilities
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Adults with Learning Disabilities
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time (please state how many hours being sought in your application)
Job ref: 306-BEH-2053-B
Site: Enfield Integrated Learning Disabilities Service
Town: Enfield
Closing: 18/10/2024 23:59
Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
* Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Clinical Psychologist Specializing in Adults with Learning Disabilities - Band 7 Post - Permanent, Enfield Integrated Learning Disabilities Service.
This position is a full-time (37.5 hrs) post. Part-time will be considered (minimum 3 days per week).
Want to make a difference in the lives of people with learning disabilities? Want to work in an excellent service that was proud to win Team of the Year 2024 in their NHS Trust Awards?
We are seeking candidates with a commitment to evidence-based practice, service development, client and carer participation, and utilising outcome measures. Strong engagement skills and the ability to work creatively with a culturally diverse population are essential.
The newly appointed Clinical Psychologist will be joining a large friendly community-based integrated and multi-disciplinary service. This consists of clinical psychologists, social workers, community nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, art therapists, physiotherapists, psychiatrists, and a specialist employment service. The Psychology team consists of 4 qualified psychologists and 3 assistant psychologists, some of whom form a Positive Behaviour Support team, alongside an occupational therapist.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for implementing a range of psychological assessments and therapeutic interventions for adults with learning disabilities, individually and in groups and involving their family carers, support staff and liaising with others involved in their lives, as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
There are good links with the local university training programs, with 2-3 trainees based with the Psychology team at any one time. We provide a broad range of CPD training opportunities and ongoing professional development.
The service is situated in Enfield Highway Carnegie Building, 258A Hertford Road, Enfield, EN3 5BN. The building was redeveloped specifically for the learning disability service. There are excellent bus and rail transport links across the Borough and into Central London and Hertfordshire. There is free car parking available in the office car park and nearby unrestricted street parking. Flexible working patterns and regular working from home are available.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the delivery of an effective, high quality psychology service within EILDS. This includes:
1. A psychological assessment and intervention service across all sectors of care in line with qualifications in the person specification, providing:
* Direct provision of psychological assessments and interventions, covered by NICE guidelines, and other models and model-informed treatments to individuals, families or groups, and agencies providing support.
* Specialist assessment in line with their core discipline, as directed and within a framework of supervision.
1. Advice and consultation on users’ psychological care to non-psychological therapist colleagues and to professional and non-professional staff involved through:
* Joint delivery with other members of the team to assist engagement
* Joint therapeutic work (i.e., with another team member)
* Input to team and multi-disciplinary meetings
2. Professional skills to:
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines and the framework of the Service’s policies and procedures
* Use core professional training for some or all of the following purposes as appropriate: research, undertake audit, and contribute to policy and service development.
The post works with people with learning disabilities who are resident within Enfield, some of whom have been placed with providers by other local authorities, and to liaise with ward based Multi-Disciplinary Team in relation to those who have been admitted to hospital.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS, or registered for, and actively pursuing, the Statement of Equivalence in Clinical Psychology.
* Registration with the Health Professions Council.
* Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Experience
* Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience of work with people with significant learning disabilities in community and in-patient settings.
* Experience of working with people with autism and/or severe learning disabilities.
* Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges.
* Experience of receiving and providing supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge
* 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 clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
* High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
* Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology.
* Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with patients and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents e.g. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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