Job Summary
37.5 hours per week.
This role is a great opportunity to support older people and provide continuity of psychological care throughout their mental health treatment. The post is based in the Kirklees Outreach Team (KOT, older adults crisis team), a friendly and welcoming team who are keen for psychology input. The post also links closely with the older adults ward in Dewsbury (Ward 19).
Supervision is provided by the ward-based Consultant Clinical Psychologist. We prioritise CPD and development opportunities. Full-time preferred; part-time would be possible.
Available at band 8a for candidates with relevant experience. Applications are welcome from newly qualified or third-year trainees for a preceptorship post at Band 7 to join the service and undertake a development plan with the aim of developing the required competencies for an 8a post. The candidate would need to successfully complete the competency framework before they gain the band 8a, and this would not be achieved solely due to length of time in post.
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.
Main Duties of the Job
The postholder will work closely with KOT, a crisis service providing intensive support to people in their own homes to both avoid inpatient admission and support discharge from hospital. There will be opportunities for short- and longer-term input with service users, including supporting them through admissions and continuing individual work on discharge from the ward, and from KOT to the CMHT.
The postholder will also work with staff in KOT, the CMHT and the ward to encourage strong links and psychological care planning across the crisis pathway, providing psychological expertise when working with people who might be in crisis, with the aim of supporting multi-disciplinary colleagues with risk assessment, formulation, and psychologically informed interventions.
We are looking for someone with a clear interest in working with older people to join our active and growing network of older people's psychologists in the Trust, including crisis team colleagues in Wakefield and Calderdale.
At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.
About Us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health, and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities; we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families, and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups; we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means we’re accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we’re run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical, and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve the right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.
The postholder will provide a high-quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and Trust's policies and procedures.
Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees, and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
Utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development, and research within the areas served by the team/service.
Offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being of service users.
Provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists, and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.
Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe, and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation, and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family and/or carers.
Formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence-based practice across a full range of care settings.
Establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being.
Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
Work jointly with other team members and professionals in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to service users and, where appropriate, their families/carers.
Follow appropriate local Safeguarding Adults and Children policies in all clinical work, including close liaison with all relevant agencies.
Provide specialist risk assessment of, and intervention to, service users who may present in local acute settings in line with agreed procedures.
Liaise and consult with the wider professional network in the care of service users, offering consultation and supervision where necessary.
Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychological interventions and autonomously manage a caseload of clients.
Contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, the settings in which they present, and agencies involved in the psychological, emotional, and behavioural well-being. #J-18808-Ljbffr