Job summary
- Main area
- Allied Health Professional
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 264-5913450-COR-A
- Employer
- Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kettering General Hospital
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/05/2024
Employer heading
Principal Psychologist (clinical, counselling, health) or Principal Psychotherapist
Band 8b
Job overview
To provide a qualified specialist psychology consultancy service to individuals and teams who are referred to the Health & Wellbeing Service/ Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service, incorporating formulation-sharing, brief interventions, reflective practice groups and care space provision and specialist psychological assessment, at the same time as offering advice, training and consultation on clients’ psychological care, return to work support to non-psychologist colleagues, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Trust/ teams’ policies and procedures.
The SPWS is within the People Directorate, Health and Wellbeing Service at University Hospitals Northamptonshire (UHN). The main base will be Kettering General Hospital which is a general acute hospital serving a population of 380,000 and cancer, hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to almost 700,000 people living throughout whole of Northamptonshire. It has state of the art new critical care and emergency assessment buildings.
The role is part of a well established Health & Wellbeing Service/ Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service team of psychologists, nurse therapists and counsellors across University Hospitals of Northamptonshire which is headed by a Consultant Health Psychologist and will have scope for joint working across Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Main duties of the job
We are a Service that is committed to enhancing the psychological wellbeing of our colleagues that care for people who use our acute hospital services across the County. Our aim is to ensure our colleagues have timely access to preventative and effective psychological support to work with a wide variety of personal, workplace and system based issues. The Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service (SPWS) sits within a stepped care clinical model integrating with a multidisciplinary staff support system (i.e peer led support service, organisational development/HR, occupational health and the health and wellbeing team) and we collaborate with our wider psychological/ mental health support services within Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust (e.g. IAPT, Mental Health Hub, CMHTs, UCAT, C-PTSD service) to maximise our Staff’s access to appropriate and specialist support as needed.
The successful applicant will be an experienced HCPC Registered Psychologist or Psychological Practitioner/ Psychotherapist registered with an appropriate UK Professional organisation, with clinical expertise and specialist skills to hold an independent caseload (appropriate to the 0.4 wte role) with more complex staff clients in the SPWS, undertaking clinical (risk) assessment, psychologically driven formulation of their needs to inform appropriate treatment / intervention plans, and able to adopt a systemic approach to a client’s care and working with system concerns and organisational challenges.
As the senior clinical lead for the KGH SPWS the post holder will be required to:
· Hold a complex case load and utilise systemic, integrative psychotherapeutic interventions and an evolving workplace research evidence base to provide a high quality, effective and efficient SPWS.
· Supervise and support the Health and Wellbeing KGH counsellors and small group of TRiM practitioners as appropriate and within service capacity.
· Lead and manage the systems, clinical governance and service evaluation of the KGH SPWS aligning across UHN with the NGH SPWS standard operating procedures (whilst ensuring that these are adapted were needed to the KGH organisation).
· Represent the SPWS across the KGH system, advising and consulting with senior HR business partners in the People Directorate, clinical leads and others on complex case management including support for staff undergoing disciplinary proceedings, serious incident investigation and managing long term sickness.
· Be the clinical lead representing KGH SPWS within the wider Northants Staff Support and Health and Wellbeing Networks where needed.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job description:
Clinical
1. To provide specialist psychological consultations to individual staff and teams referred to the service.
2. Maintain clinical skills by carrying our psychological assessment of clients referred to the SPWS using appropriate measures, models and techniques, interpretating and using highly complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, manager-leaders and others professionals/ services involved in the client’s care.
3. To assess and formulate clients’ problems and dilemmas and develop plans for brief intervention or psychological treatment and/or management of difficulties if necessary and relevant, including developmental background, long term personality adaptations, interpersonal patterns of relating, service and diagnostic issues. These plans will be based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems and employ methods of proven efficacy.
4. To be responsible for implementing either individually or with partners in the system
a range of interventions for individuals, leader-managers within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations which draw upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
5. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their manager/leaders (as appropriate) and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Behaviours and Values:
1. Demonstrates the ability (and commitment) to work as a collaborative and reflective practitioner and to support others to do likewise.
2. Notices, responds to and formulates systemic complexity.
3. Able to hold difficult conversations and/or set boundaries with sensitivity.
4. Approachable for psychology and colleagues from a wide range of professional backgrounds and supervisees.
5. To ensure the development and dissemination of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of applied psychology and related disciplines.
6. Belief in the value of lived experience in the development and provision in the service and ability to incorporate this skillfully into the Group SPWS model and its development.
Teaching, training and supervision
1. To provide advice, consultation, supervision and training to a range of professional staff working in KGH Health and Wellbeing Services relating to their provision of staff support services.
2. To provide professional management and clinical supervision of SPWS psychological practitioners, trainee and assistant psychologists working in the team or on placement where applicable to which the postholder is attached.
3. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to SPWS psychologists/therapists and other psychological practitioners attached to the team.
4. To provide clinical placements for trainee psychologists when appropriate, ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good psychological care and to be responsible for the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
5. To receive regular clinical supervision from the UHN Group Consultant Lead Psychologist for the Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service.
6. To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
7. To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes.
8. To maintain and develop skills in professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
9. To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
10. To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
11. Undertake professional supervision, personal development planning and appraisal and provide feedback on performance regularly through the year.
12. Demonstrate a commitment to own personal development and training and ensure that appropriate skills and knowledge are developed as a mentor and role model.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development
1. To participate as a principal lead clinician in the development of a high quality, responsive and accessible SPWS including advising both service and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
2. To develop and implement operational policy and procedures for an evolving SPWS service at KGH, assess, implement and evaluate improvements to the KGH Service and contribute to the overall strategic development of the Group service in collaboration with the Lead Psychologist.
3. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing the psychological resources available to a team/lead service area.
4. To exercise individual accountability in line with clinical governance and professional requirements and initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
5. To exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service/team.
6. To collect the data required across areas of work to meet audit and performance management targets in a timely manner and ensure that the data informs resource changes in the service.
7. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant psychologists, SWPS psychologists, other psychological therapists and members of the H&WB services. Participate in general induction and orientation of new staff, where necessary.
8. To promote the principles of Improving Working Lives and UHN Leadership Behaviours in the team and in own practice, ensuring fairness and equity for all.
Research and service evaluation
1. To take the psychology lead, as the principal clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the Group SPWS operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality care.
2. To initiate project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the Health & Wellbeing services to help develop and improve psychological wellbeing services to clients and the hospital system.
3. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in work with individuals, teams and at organisational level, and work with other team members.
4. To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research including postgraduate trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists undertaking research as appropriate.
IT responsibilities
1. To undergo appropriate training in use of Trust/Team electronic data collection systems.
2. To maintain and manage SPWS clinical records and referral information in
accordance with Trust information governance policy and systems.
3. To routinely update and maintain electronic data collection systems.
Financial responsibilities:
1. To be a signatory for, and jointly agree requests for support, from the Health and Wellbeing Staff Charitable Fund with the Health and Wellbeing Manager and the SoS Service Lead.
2. To cost NGH SPWS resources and CPD needs on an annual basis and apply/bid for these from internal and/or external sources in collaboration with the SPWS Lead.
3. To cost SPWS service developments as required and develop business cases and bids for these in collaboration with the SPWS Lead.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology (clinical/counselling/health) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically delivering individual therapeutic interventions within healthcare populations and with a range of knowledge and expertise in working with health prevention behaviours, physical long-term conditions and mental health and risk management OR Postgraduate training e.g. Masters level professional clinical qualification/ therapeutic practice with relevant professional experience to the level equivalent to doctoral level training.
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Psychologist or as a regulated and accredited psychological therapist registered with a UK professional organisation e.g. UKCP, BACP
Desirable criteria
- Training and/or qualification in post- graduate therapeutic specialisms/ eg staff wellbeing, ACT/CBT
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified HCPC Registered clinical/counselling/health psychologist, psychotherapist or psychological practitioner for a minimum of 4 years with 2 years as a senior psychologist/therapist/practitioner.
- Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialized areas of psychological practice including substantial experience of delivery of at least two evidence-based therapies relevant to staff health and wellbeing (e.g. CBT/ ACT/ Compassion focused therapy).
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, specifically across working age adults and presenting with a range of clinical severity in psychological difficulties.
- Experience of working across different healthcare settings including the acute hospital sector (in patient or staff services), 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 working with staff that require support with psychological adjustment to workplace stress, their health and well-being and long-term condition management.
- Experience of working with staff teams facilitating reflective practice groups/ staff support groups.
- Experience of representing and leading psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Formal training in the clinical supervision of other psychologists.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS.
- To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
- To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both NHS Staff Psychological Wellbeing and wider Health and Wellbeing Support Systems e.g. a. The NHS People Plan, The Health & Wellbeing Strategy & Framework b. Local and national policy, guidance and strategies for supporting staff c. Risk Assessment and Management d. Clinical Governance e. NICE guidelines& HSE guidance f. Current Mental Health Legislation
- Experience of working with issues of difference and diversity.
- 17. Multi-disciplinary management/team leadership experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a psychologist within staff health and wellbeing services, staff support systems, organisational development/human resources, occupational health or a related field
- Experience of working clinically with workplace burnout, trauma/ PTSD and moral injury.
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, clinical formulation, therapeutic intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to individual staff, manager-leaders and other professional colleagues both within and outside the hospital Trust and NHS system.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non¬professional groups and attending team development days, meetings etc to support their health and wellbeing strategies.
- Ability to be highly proactively in developing good working relationships with collaborating People services and multiple multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust and at all levels of the two hospital systems.
- Ability to work at a strategic, system level, considering the wider context in the development of Trust staff wellbeing strategy and initiatives.
- Ability to work collaboratively with key KGH Managers, Leads and Clinicians across clinical and non-clinical directorates to best facilitate the health and wellbeing of their staff and teams.
- Ability to work collaboratively with external systems and stakeholders (e.g. NHFT) relevant to the delivery and development of the KGH Staff Psychological Wellbeing Service.
- Skills in teaching and training, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- 9. Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Claire Hallas
- Job title
- UHN Group Head of Health & Wellbeing/ Consultant Lead Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07895330925
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