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
1. To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to clients of the service specialty, working with individual members of staff and volunteers to provide assessment, formulation, and intervention.
2. To work alongside the team in developing and providing education, training, and workshops that aim to improve the psychological wellbeing of staff and volunteers across Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.
3. To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.
4. To provide professional supervision to staff members working within MY Psychological services where appropriate, and to provide clinical supervision to trainees undertaking Doctoral training.
5. To respond to service need, interpreting professional policies and ensuring that the service operates at the highest level of best practice.
6. To act independently and to be accountable for own actions within professional guidelines and Trust policies.
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.
Application guidance: We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It's important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation, and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
2. To formulate and implement psychological intervention based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's presentation.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychological interventions for individuals, groups/teams, and services.
4. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service.
5. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
6. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients.
7. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation, and intervention with clients.
8. To carry out the above responsibilities using face-to-face consultations, telephone or video platforms as appropriate.
9. 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, intervention, and management.
* Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information.
* Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* The ability to plan, organise and flexibly manage own caseload.
* 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.
Other
Essential
* Enthusiasm for the development and delivery of psychological services.
* Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by psychological services.
* The ability to contain and work with organisational stress.
* Keyboard and IT literacy skills.
* Experience and proficiency of working with remote interfaces.
Qualifications
Essential
* Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology.
* HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist with Chartered Status.
* Further training in a specialist area of clinical practice.
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological interventions.
* Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
* Formal training in supervision of other Clinical Psychologists.
* Awareness of own limitations.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working directly with staff and/or volunteers in relation to their mental health and wellbeing.
* Experience of teaching, training, consultation, and professional and clinical supervision.
* Experience of adapting psychological interventions to meet diverse needs of clients.
* 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 delivering clinical services as part of a staff psychological wellbeing service.
* Experience of providing Clinical Supervision.
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.
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