We are excited to advertise a 10-month fixed term 0.8 WTE (4 days) practitioner (clinical, counselling, forensic) psychologist post to to work in Oldham's adult acute inpatient service.
The two 22-bedded adult acute wards, Oak and Aspen, are based at Royal Oldham Hospital and provide specialist assessment, care and treatment for men and women aged 18 to 65 years old with a variety of mental health needs. People will often be admitted via A&E, Liaison, Home Treatment Team, a Mental Health Act Assessment within the community or from an outpatient clinic and are often experiencing distress, a mental health deterioration and/or may be in crisis.
Oak and Aspen are friendly, dynamic ward teams who are keen for a full MDT to help them provide the best possible care they can. The wards are engaged in NHS-E Culture of Care project and are committed to provide care in a trauma informed, autism informed and culturally competent manner.
This post will suit a skilled, compassionate and motivated practitioner psychologist with an interest in developing a range of direct and indirect approaches and skills, combined with a desire to work within acute inpatient settings.
The successful postholder will have a network of colleagues around them. Working closely with Oldham's secondary care psychology service, complex, emotional and relational needs team, early intervention team, liaison team and home treatment team.
As outlined in the job description, the main duties of the job include:
• To provide a high quality specialist psychology service within the adult acute inpatient service.
• To hold a clinical caseload undertaking evidence-based psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention (individual and/or group) for service users admitted the wards. This may include evidence-based treatments for a range of mental health difficulties at the point of crisis including experiences of psychosis, depression and/or Complex Emotional and Relational Needs (CERN).
• 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.
Our acute and crisis pathway provides an evidence-based, high quality service across adult acute wards, Home Treatment Teams and Mental Health Liaison teams covering half of Greater Manchester. The Trustwide acute and crisis psychology team meets regularly for team meetings, CPD and a facilitated reflective group and is led by an 8c consultant clinical psychologist Trustwide acute psychology team.
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership. Our staff survey results support this. In the latest National Survey (2023) Pennine Care was ranked as the best mental health and learning disability trust in the North West.
We support staff to work flexibly and recognise and respect the roles our colleagues hold outside of working hours. This focus helps us to retain staff and ensure people are happy in their place of work.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We know a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; that everyone's value should be recognised and respected.
There are also opportunities to link with local higher education providers and the research & innovation (R&I) team to engage with related research projects.
We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme. Our psychology colleagues have fedback that this is a particular strength within the Trust.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further detail and to support your application for this post.
This advert closes on Monday 24 Feb 2025