Principal Clinical/Applied Psychologist

2 weeks ago

Southampton, United Kingdom Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a passionate and committed psychologist with experience of delivering psychological care to young people and their families and looking to bring and develop your management and leadership skills?

We are looking to appoint a Principal Clinical/Applied Psychologist to offer psychological leadership to the for a Medium Secure adolescent inpatient unit.

Bluebird House provides a 13 bedded Secure Forensic Mental Health Service for both male and female young people aged 12 to 18.

The role will involve leading, supervising and managing the psychologically therapies team and promoting a psychological informed environment and model of care based on principles of attachment and trauma. The role will have a strategic role in supporting new developments and care pathways for young people and their families and carers.

There are close links with the Adolescent General Adolescent Unit, Low Secure Units (Leigh House, Austen House and Bluebird House) and new PICU. The 4 units share an attachment and trauma model of care and have a proven record in striving to deliver least restrictive practices.

You will need to be a confident practitioner, with significant clinical experience in inpatient, CAMHS and/or other relevant services and be adaptable to ever changing needs and pressures.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work alongside other psychological therapy colleagues (psychologists, assistant psychologists, creative therapists, and systemic family therapists) and a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team. The work involves supporting staff working with highly complex cases, and individual and group work. The role will involve training and workforce development to enable an understanding of the psychological aspects of a young person's risk and mental health conditions, and the development of psychologically informed formulations and risk management plans.

In particular, the post-holder will:

Take clinical leadership responsibility for the implementation and coordination of psychological care for the inpatient unit they are responsible for.

Ensure the systematic provision of high-quality specialist psychological services for young people and their families/ carers, with an emphasis on co-production, dealing primarily with complex psychological problems, using an Attachment and Trauma model of care, and to support the development of a psychological milieu and trauma informed approach to care.

The post-holder will undertake complex assessments and intervention strategies, including specialist neuropsychological assessment offer consultancy and provide expert advice to multidisciplinary colleagues, and the wider clinical multi-professional team, other agencies and non-professional carers.

About us

Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

As a Trust, our footprint spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities.

- We function as a unified team, placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

- Our 7,000+ workforce is skilled and diverse, with a deep commitment to ongoing staff development. We offer customised training, leadership pathways, and a plethora of career opportunities.

- We respect and listen to your thoughts, ideas, and concerns via well-established network of staff groups to increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Building on all this, we are currently working closely with other local NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Our new organisation is set to launch in April 2024 and will incorporate Southern Health, Solent, Isle of Wight and Sussex Partnership Trusts.

While the new Trust will be substantially bigger, it will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, streamlining services and making healthcare across the county more accessible.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies. and lifespan developmental psychology.
  • Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.
  • Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist
  • Non Clinical Psychologists will need to be able to demonstrate the above competencies

Desirable


  • Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of psychological therapy.
  • Management training

Experience

Essential


  • In depth experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist at a highly specialist level.
  • Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
  • Experience of providing Neuropsychological Assessment and
  • Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care plan.
  • Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
  • Experience of providing neuropsychological supervision to other staff.

Desirable


  • Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
  • Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings.
  • Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
  • Experience of managing staff.

Additional Criteria

Essential


  • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
  • Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to young people, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of working with young people with complex health problems and within the criminal justice system.
  • Skills in the application of interventions for young people with complex attachment and trauma histories and mental health difficulties.
  • Ability to contain, explore and formulate an understanding of high levels of distress both directly with young people and indirectly via supervision of other staff.
  • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
  • Ability to constructively manage situations and people at times of conflict.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff in service delivery and developments.
  • Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practised within the field of clinical psychology.
  • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the patient group and mental health.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
  • Ability to identify provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
  • Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
  • Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
  • IT skills including email, word processing and basic databases.
  • Interest in models of service delivery and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.

Desirable


  • Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g., personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
  • Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bluebird House

Tatchbury Mount, Calmore

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 2RZ

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