Band 8a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or Band 7/8a Preceptorship
1 week ago
Job summary
Would you like to work alongside other enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in adult mental health? We are looking for a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Band 7 or 8a, depending on experience with progression by appraisal.
Join our team of Clinical and Counselling Psychologists and CBT Psychotherapists in our Derbyshire Adult CMHTs, all passionate about providing and developing services for our community and supporting our teams to co-create meaningful change, so that people flourish, feel connected and empowered to pursue their aspirations. This is an exciting transformational time for us in developing our services with our focus on 'Living Well' Community Mental Health Framework changes and developing trauma-informed care in our CMHTs: transformation movements with collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at their core and in which Psychological Services have a pivotal role.
If you would like to join our Derby City Adult CMHT please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate and Trust. The role available is up to full time with part time and flexible working options. We warmly welcome enquires for informal discussions and around options. Please state which Banding you are applying for in 'Supporting Information'.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide individual and group clinical work jointly with your colleagues. You will also 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. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.
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.
About us
You will be based in Derby City CMHT, joining a dynamic group 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and person specification can be found on the job application page.
Key Clinical areas:
Responsible for:
a. 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.
b. 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.
c. Implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting, and refining psychological formulations as required and to monitor and evaluate progress of interventions.
d. Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
e. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility within the context of multidisciplinary team working, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users.
f. 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.
g. 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.
h. 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.
i. 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.
j. 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.
k. Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, General Practitioners, and other primary Health Care Workers.
l. Attending clinical meetings, case reviews, and case conferences as appropriate.
m. Maintaining/managing waiting lists for referrals to psychological services within the teams where the post holder is based as required
n. Carrying out other clinical duties as may be agreed with the Chief Psychologist and Lead Psychologists.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential
Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above). Eligibility for Graduate membership of BPS Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist by the HCPC Eligible for Chartered status of BPS Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists Post qualification specialist training/experience of assessment/intervention for people with complex mental health problems
Desirable
Post qualification training in a therapy model Chartered status with BPS
Experience
Essential
Experience of working with clients across a variety of settings Commitment to developing specialist area of expertise relevant to the post through significant training, personal study, etc
Desirable
Expertise and interest in specialist area relevant to adult mental health
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance, and relate effectively in an emotive and hostile environment
Desirable
Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets
Other
Essential
Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post-
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