An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Applied Psychologist to join North Yorkshire, York & Selby Adult Mental Health Services as Personality and Relational co Lead. Your key role will be to support colleagues in developing their skills, knowledge and attitudes, supporting them to enhance the recovery of people presenting with complex emotional needs and relational challenges and aiming to ensure that service delivery in general is personality and relationally informed. You will be required to be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist and have post doctoral training in a specialism relevant to complex emotional needs, and extensive clinical experience working with complex emotional needs. The nature of the role means that driving will be essential. The post will involve travel across the North Yorkshire, York & Selby footprint. The location of the base is negotiable with the successful candidate.
Main duties of the job You will deliver a range of supervisory, consultative, and service development and improvement interventions, working both with internal colleagues in teams across Adult Mental Health as well as wider multi-agency networking. Candidates should be significantly experienced clinicians with excellent interdisciplinary working skills and interested in developing and delivering an innovative service. A proven track record of consultancy, clinical leadership and supervisory experience in the field of Adult Mental Health is essential. A working knowledge and understanding of Structured Clinical Management is desirable. This is a challenging yet rewarding post that requires the post holder to hold and contain highly distressing material. You will join colleagues doing the same job in the other localities, all managed and professionally led from within their locality.
About us We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time. Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).
The Trust is committed to providing support and supervision for continuing professional development and we have an excellent track record for developing our psychology workforce. There are also strong links to the local Psychology Doctoral Programmes as we are key providers of academic and clinical experience components both in terms of teaching and supervision. Psychologists provide key leadership roles within the Trust.
Job description Job responsibilities Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees Trained in care co-ordination Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills Essential Provide effective clinical leadership and demonstrate operating at a strong level across the following 5 dimensions of the Healthcare Leadership Model: Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people Provide consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision. Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems Utilise psychometric tests competently Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work Project Management Use approved breakaway techniques Demonstrate effective keyboard skills Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings
Experience Essential Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team. Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses Research and development Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives. Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession Managing multi-agency service delivery models.
Knowledge Essential Doctoral level knowledge of: Evidence- based practice relevant to the role Risk assessment and risk management Clinical governance Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice Audit and research methodology Social Inclusion agenda Highly developed knowledge of: The care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour. The Trust's Quality Improvement System
Employer details Employer name Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Address Huntington House York YO32 9XW Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
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Main duties of the job You will deliver a range of supervisory, consultative, and service development and improvement interventions, working both with internal colleagues in teams across Adult Mental Health as well as wider multi-agency networking. Candidates should be significantly experienced clinicians with excellent interdisciplinary working skills and interested in developing and delivering an innovative service. A proven track record of consultancy, clinical leadership and supervisory experience in the field of Adult Mental Health is essential. A working knowledge and understanding of Structured Clinical Management is desirable. This is a challenging yet rewarding post that requires the post holder to hold and contain highly distressing material. You will join colleagues doing the same job in the other localities, all managed and professionally led from within their locality.
About us We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time. Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).
The Trust is committed to providing support and supervision for continuing professional development and we have an excellent track record for developing our psychology workforce. There are also strong links to the local Psychology Doctoral Programmes as we are key providers of academic and clinical experience components both in terms of teaching and supervision. Psychologists provide key leadership roles within the Trust.
Job description Job responsibilities Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification Qualifications Essential Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS. HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees Trained in care co-ordination Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills Essential Provide effective clinical leadership and demonstrate operating at a strong level across the following 5 dimensions of the Healthcare Leadership Model: Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties / learning disabilities Communicate highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information effectively, to a wide range of people Provide consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups Articulate the value added by applied psychology services within the context of multidisciplinary mental health and learning disability healthcare provision. Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems Utilise psychometric tests competently Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions / means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work Project Management Use approved breakaway techniques Demonstrate effective keyboard skills Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings
Experience Essential Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care co-ordinator and leader of a multidisciplinary team. Liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies Teaching, training, clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses Research and development Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives. Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession Managing multi-agency service delivery models.
Knowledge Essential Doctoral level knowledge of: Evidence- based practice relevant to the role Risk assessment and risk management Clinical governance Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health and its implications for clinical practice Audit and research methodology Social Inclusion agenda Highly developed knowledge of: The care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour. The Trust's Quality Improvement System
Employer details Employer name Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Address Huntington House York YO32 9XW Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
346-NYA-202-24-A
#J-18808-Ljbffr
