Principal Clinical Psychologist - Acute AMH

Overview

Principal Clinical Psychologist – Acute AMH. The Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Acute and urgent care 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 an experienced principal practitioner psychologist on a 12 months fixed term maternity cover basis. The post holder will provide clinical input to Rowan 2 inpatient ward and City CRHT team, working closely with the Consultant Lead Psychologist for Inpatient and Acute services as well as two additional principal psychologists who work part time within our team.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical input and adopt a psychological approach within the team; participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients’ needs across a wide range of clinical presentations.
• Complete brief psychological interventions with service users on a caseload shared across the team and provide consultation to the multidisciplinary team, including contributing psychological perspectives to care planning and guiding treatment plans at review meetings.
• Promote wellbeing within the multidisciplinary team; provide supervision and reflective practice.
• Assist in shaping, planning, overseeing and delivering group interventions in inpatient and/or CRHT settings; provide supervision and leadership to less experienced members of the Acute and Crisis Psychology team.
• Contribute to service development and provide training opportunities as available.
• Work with service users during periods of crisis and apply transferrable skills to this setting.

DBS and employment considerations

Applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced); these costs will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

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.

For further information, please refer to the job description and person specification attachment in the advert. Contact details: Name: Dr Zoe Whitaker; Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist; Email: ZOE.WHITAKER@NOTTSHC.NHS.UK; Telephone: 01159691300

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Part-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider
• Industries
• Hospitals and Health Care