Employer: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Highbury Hospital/Sherwood Oaks
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £53,755 - £72,293 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/09/2024 23:59
Practitioner Psychologist - Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment
Band 8a
Job overview
The Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Acute and Crisis services provide high quality psychological assessment, intervention and consultancy within local adult acute mental health wards and crisis teams. We are seeking to recruit to several Practitioner Psychologists positions across NHS bands within the Acute and Crisis Care Unit.
We encourage those with an interest in working with service users during periods of crisis to consider taking this opportunity to apply their transferable skills to these rewarding and varied posts. Applicants seeking to progress to 8b NHS banding with significant demonstrated experience of working in acute adult mental health services are particularly welcomed. There are also roles suitable for practitioners working within the scope of an 8a Psychologist's NHS banding. Recently qualified and final year trainees with a commitment to this area will be considered with support and opportunities under preceptorship to progress to the 8a role within 18 months post qualification.
Main duties of the job
You will hold a leadership role within the team and will support the team to adopt a psychological approach. You will participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients’ needs, including a wide range of clinical presentations. You will complete brief psychological interventions with service users on a caseload shared across the team and work indirectly to provide advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary team, e.g., contributing a psychological perspective to care planning and guiding treatment plans at review meetings.
You will be involved in promoting wellbeing within the multi-disciplinary team, including providing supervision and reflective practice. Our Acute Psychology team have recently developed a range of brief psychologically informed group interventions for our inpatient wards as we expand our treatment directory, and so there will be opportunities to help shape, plan, oversee and deliver group interventions within the inpatient and/or CRHT settings whilst providing supervision and leadership to less experienced members of the Acute and Crisis Psychology team. There are also frequent opportunities to provide training and contribute to service development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicants will join an established, friendly and supportive group of qualified and assistant psychologists working into the Trust’s acute adult mental health services, including inpatient wards and crisis teams across Nottinghamshire. Our team of psychologists have a breadth of experience and employ a range of psychological models and approaches. This post is line managed within the profession and clinical supervision will be provided by a senior psychologist in the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
* Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
Experience
* Working as an applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings.
* Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
* Teaching, training and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses.
* Research and development
* Quality and service improvement and evaluation
* Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
Knowledge
* Evidence-based practice relevant to the role
* Risk assessment and risk management
* Clinical governance
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
* Audit and research methodology
* Social Inclusion agenda
Skills
* Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
* Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities.
* Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team.
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities
* Utilise psychometric tests competently
* Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
* Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
* Use approved breakaway techniques
* Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings.
* Experience of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental difficulties
* Knowledge of Trauma informed approaches
Contractual Requirements
* A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
* Able to work in accordance with the staff and Trust values and behaviours
Values and Behaviours
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
* All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role.
Additional Information
* The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the post early once we have received a sufficient number of applicants, so we advise you to submit your application early to prevent disappointment.
* We will be requesting references by email. Please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.
* The Trust believes in treating everyone with dignity and respect and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. We guarantee an interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria.
* Communication regarding your application will be sent via email therefore, please ensure you regularly check your spam/junk folder.
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