Clinical Psychologist

2 weeks ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Would you like to be at the forefront of innovative service development? Are you good at building relationships, working with teams and promoting new ways of doing things?


Our newly launched Living Well teams delivers the Community Mental Health Framework to the people of South Derbyshire to promote recovery for people with complex mental illness through the provision of holistic community based support and interventions.


We are looking for a forward thinking Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) who is passionate and enthusiastic about transforming mental health services.


Working flexibly across 3 teams, you will be responsible for the provision of short term psychological offers within the Living Well teams.


Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (derbyshirehealthcareft.You will develop, oversee and deliver short term psychologically informed offers in the Living Well teams. You will promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development. We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team report feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.
Join our team of over 260 staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.


If you would like to join our friendly Psychological Therapies team please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate and Trust. We are flexible in creating mutually agreeable job plans. Provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service users care.


Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.


Consulting, advising, and/or supervising colleagues from other disciplines on the psychological formulation and management of patients with mental health problems, particularly in areas of specialist knowledge.


Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.


Implementing case management including working within the framework of the Care Programme Approach, fulfilling the role of care co-ordinator as appropriate initiating planning and review of care plans involving service users, carers, and others involved in the care package, in this process.


Assessing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk to minimise this risk to patients, other people, and oneself, and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.


Communicating orally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, to referrers and others involved in the service users care on a need-to-know basis.


Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, General Practitioners, and other primary Health Care Workers.


Training & Qualifications
Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above) giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
Postgraduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS and giving eligibility for membership of the Health Care Professions Council HCPC
Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
Able to demonstrate significant post qualification specialist training/experience through having provided assessment and intervention to people with complex, severe and enduring mental health / psychological problems including with personality disorder and complex trauma under clinical supervision

Post qualification training in a therapy model

Experience of working with people with a range of mental health / psychological problems and across a variety of settings


Expertise and interest in a specialist area relevant to adult mental health.


Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets


Possess an enthusiasm for psychology in relation to mental health problems. Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

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