Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and compassionate Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our dynamic Workforce Psychological Wellbeing Service. Our team is committed to promoting the psychological wellbeing of all staff working within Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust. We understand the unique challenges faced by healthcare professionals, and our goal is to provide tailored support to enhance their mental health and psychological wellbeing.
As a Senior Clinical Psychologist, you will play a crucial role in providing individual psychological therapy, group support, consultation, teaching, and supervision to staff members and teams. You will collaborate closely with our team of Clinical Psychologists and Counsellors to ensure the highest quality of care.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Workforce Psychological Wellbeing Team, you will work with individual members of staff and volunteers to provide assessment, formulation, and therapeutic intervention. You will provide team-level interventions, such as reflective practice groups, training, and workshops that aim to improve the psychological wellbeing of staff. You will provide professional supervision to staff members working within MY Psychological services when appropriate and provide clinical supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training.
You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the workforce psychological wellbeing service's policies and procedures. You will also work to develop a culture in partnership with others which leads to policies and strategies that improve the wellbeing of staff and volunteers within Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients' homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients (whether individuals or team-based clients) referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources, which may include clinical interview, psychometrics, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observations, semi-structured interviews/surveys, and focus groups with individuals, staff groups, leaders, and other key stakeholders as appropriate dependent upon the nature of the work (whether individual therapy or team-based intervention).
To formulate and implement psychological intervention based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients' presentation, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, groups/teams, and services, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models.
To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and service areas within the Trust.
To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped individuals.
To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and intervention with clients and to monitor progress throughout the course of that intervention.
To carry out the above responsibilities using face-to-face consultations, telephone, or video platforms as appropriate to the wider hospital context.
To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to specialty areas.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention, 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 and other professional colleagues.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* The ability to plan, organise, and flexibly manage own caseload, adapting to the changing priorities of a complex organisational environment and coordinating the work of professional colleagues.
* Provide effective teaching, training, and clinical supervision.
* Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by HCPC / BPS.
* Keyboard and IT literacy skills for the purpose of writing complex psychological reports, letters, as well as clinical programmes, which form part of treatment.
Desirable
* Proficiency in using multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional, and academic settings.
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 2000) as accredited by the BPS.
* HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Chartered Status.
* Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working directly with staff who work in health and social care in relation to their mental health and wellbeing.
* Experience of delivering effective teaching, training, and clinical supervision.
* Experience of adapting psychological interventions to meet diverse needs of clients receiving care.
* Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems.
Desirable
* Experience of working within an NHS Acute Trust.
* Experience of providing clinical supervision.
* Experience of group work.
* Experience of delivering teaching to other professions.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* The ability to work in accordance with The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust values and behaviours.
* The ability to engage with a broad range of staff groups and work effectively in potentially distressing and challenging circumstances.
* The ability to work flexibly and cooperatively as part of a team.
* The ability to use own initiative and make decisions independently.
Other
Essential
* Enthusiasm for the development and delivery of psychological services focused on improving the wellbeing of staff and volunteers working within the NHS.
* Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by psychological services working in the context of workforce wellbeing.
* The ability to contain and work with organisational stress and the ability to contain the stress of others.
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions used to work with individuals and teams presenting with complex difficulties.
* Awareness of own limitations.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
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