Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist -Northwest Gambling Service
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Job overview
This is a role within a psychologically led service with a national and international profile and impact. This rapidly developing and innovative clinical area operates across the northwest. The postholder will be based at one of the clinics in the northwest, which are Manchester, Preston, and Liverpool i.e. the one most convenient for them. Expectation of some travel across the sites is required, as well as working from home. The service employs a psychological model and is largely made up of a psychological workforce. There is a great opportunity, working alongside the Consultant Psychologist and Clinical Lead (a national expert in gambling addiction), to develop and contribute to the clinical delivery of the service within regional integrated care models. The postholder will contribute to clinical supervision, stakeholder engagement across the region, teaching, presentations, and research in a developing field. The service contributes to policy and regulation at a national level.
We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision.
We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will work across the Northwest Gambling Service. They will deliver assessment, formulation, risk management, and treatment of service users with gambling disorder and co-morbid distress. In addition, there will be a key role in supervising non-psychologists involved in psychological intervention, as well as harnessing the psychological model via regular MDT meetings.
The role will involve research and evaluation, as well as supporting audit and clinical governance. They will supervise Mental Health Nurses, therapists and psychologists and work within the Northwest MDT. They will work within professional guidelines and within the overall framework of the Trust’s policies and procedures. There is also the opportunity to innovate within the service and influence the service as a member of the senior team. Some teaching/presentations in public, academic, and professional settings also a part of the role.
Qualification in CBT, DBT and experience working in addiction services would be highly desirable.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical supervision of psychologists, nurses and therapists
Expectation of travel across the sites is required
Adherence and the integrity of the clinical model
Contributing where agreed and appropriate to research and evaluation, including the routine collection of clinical data and outcome measures
Contributing to the clinical governance of the service
Involvement in actively promoting the service across the region
Teaching on Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as well as overseeing psychology placements in the service
Psychological therapy, including CBT, for service users with a gambling addiction and co-occurring distress
Person specification
Qualifications and registration
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996) and HCPC registration; Or Postgraduate Diploma qualification in Cognitive and/or Behavioural Psychotherapy AND Accreditation with BABCP as a CBT therapist. With either a prior core profession or via KSA route.
Training
Essential criteria
- Additional significant post qualification training relevant to the service and job role outlined in the job summary.
- Formal training in supervision of others.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience in an area of practice relevant to the service specified in the job summary, to include assessment of risk
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
- Matt Gaskell
- Job title
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- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 583591
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