Clinical or Counselling Psychologist

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.

We are pleased to advertise a full-time 8a post based at our PICU in Hull. Due to recent reconfigurations, we are investing in the psychology team to enhance the provision and create a robust and joined-up clinical provision across the acute care pathway. This new team will enable the post holder, alongside their colleagues, to influence and steer the individual service user recovery journey from initial telephone call to assessment and intervention. Your role will be pivotal in shaping and improving the service user journey in PICU.

Your direct clinical work will be located at the PICU, where staff support will also be an equally important focus in terms of providing reflective practice groups, devising formulations with the MDT, training, supervision, and consultation.

Main duties of the job:

• You will be providing assessment of need and risk, formulation, and intervention for the service users accessing PICU.
• Staff support is a fundamental part of the role in providing clinical leadership within the unit and supporting psychologically underpinned multi-disciplinary care.
• As a PICU team, you will work together to provide trauma-informed care to people accessing the service, liaising closely with your community, out-of-area provider, and inpatient colleagues, sharing formulations and devising care plans that support transitions between community and inpatient settings.
• Your role will be to support the Principal Psychologist in overseeing and developing psychological provision pathways in the acute care pathway.

Working for our organisation:

We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care. We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised. We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Please see job description and person specification for more details as well as the additional document attached to the advert.

For a discussion about the role, please contact Dawn Peters, Professional Lead for AMH Psychology on dawnpeters1@nhs.net.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent (if trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC.
• Clinical supervision training for doctoral trainees.
• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities, etc.).

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, including a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held (secondary mental health).
• Experience of teaching, training, and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation.
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, and publishing.

Skills:

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring, and teaching.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e., strategically and locally.
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date. This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible, the Trust supports agile working, with an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis. If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.