Specialist Clinical/ Forensic/ Counselling Psychologist

4 weeks ago


Lincoln, United Kingdom Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist / Forensic/ Counselling Psychologist to join our team, responsible for the provision of a highly specialist psychological service for service users within the Inpatient Rehabilitation service.

The successful candidate will provide clinical supervision to psychologists in training, assistant psychologists, and junior colleagues; provide expert psychological services to clients, and to other agencies and professions, and clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning, co-ordination, and management as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Specialty.

We are a long-established psychology department consisting of six psychologists working across nine acute, rehabilitation and low secure wards, and the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams across the value CPD within the department, and are keen support ongoing learning and development, recent fully funded training has included DBT, Schema, CAT, MCT, MBT, EMDR, DISCO and ADOS training.

Applications are invited from candidates who would like to help improve our patient experience within inpatient rehabilitation services. This is an exciting and challenging role which will afford the successful candidate the opportunity to work as part of a supportive team that is focused on delivering high standards of care through evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

To contribute to the psychological assessment and treatment for patients within the inpatient rehabilitation wards.

To contribute to risk assessments for individuals referred to the service.

To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patient's mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patient's problems, via the employment of methods based upon evidence-based practice and efficacy.

To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological.

To provide clinical supervision and support to psychologists working in the Specialty .

To sit on relevant committees/projects/working groups of the Trust as required.

To support the Continuing Professional Development of more junior psychologists working in the Specialty.

To provide educational inputs to other professionals and to the staff of other agencies as required.

To manage the workloads of assistant, trainee clinical or forensic psychologists and junior colleagues, within the framework of the Specialty's policies and procedures.

To be involved, as appropriate, in the short-listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists / qualified psychologists / secretarial staff.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit to find out more .

Job description

Job responsibilities

To manage a caseload of patients with psychosis and other severe mental health problems on our Rehabilitation wards.

To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. The standards of practice will include meeting the standards defined by the British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology and Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust.

To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patients mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patients problems, via the employment of methods based upon evidence based practice and efficacy.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives and different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological

To provide consultation and advice to relevant significant others (such as partners and carers) in order to improve the psychological health of clients of the Specialty.

To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with mental health difficulties

To keep adequate clinical records in accordance with the Trust policy and your professional bodies guidance.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patient and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both uni-and multi-disciplinary care

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Honours degree in Psychology Post-graduate (doctoral) level training in clinical/ Forensic/ Counselling 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 life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS Registered with HPC Chartered Psychologist Status Post-qualification further training in a specialist therapy

Desirable

DBT Training CBT for Psychosis Training

Experience

Essential

Post qualification experience working with adults who access a psychological service, including those with trauma histories and those with psychosis. Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to service users with psychosis and complex trauma Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and with a range presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosis Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Desirable

Experience of teaching and training Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts

Skills

Essential

Analysis and Judgement - Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Relationships and Communications - Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, partners, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Planning and Organising - Ability to plan, organise and prioritise time; to balance both clinical and non-clinical work and to meet requirements of CPD. Research - Post-graduate level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practised within the clinical fields of psychology. Legislative Knowledge - Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for clinical practice and professional management of adult client group. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Good keyboard skills. IT skills enabling use of e-mail and input of minimum data set.

Desirable

Skilled in generating psychological formulations that can be understood by the MDT
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