Job summary
- Main area
- Complex Emotional Needs
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Preceptorship opportunity for newly/recently qualified Practitioner Psychologists
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 363-BED6351882-B
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mountbatten House
- Town
- Dunstable
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/08/2024
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Psychologist (with preceptorship option)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
The Bedfordshire and Luton Complex Needs Service is excited to be able to offer a Practitioner Psychologist the opportunity to join our supportive team in working towards improving access to evidence-based treatment for people with complex emotional needs (associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’). The ideal candidate would have completed either an accredited Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) training or an accredited Mentalization-Based Treatment training, and would have experience supervising others. However, the service would be willing to consider appointing a newly qualified Psychologist at Band 7 under a preceptorship that would enable them to work toward meeting the essential criteria for an 8a position within an 18 month - 2 year period (subject to satisfactory completion of the preceptorship process). This programme of development would include undertaking an accredited training in DBT/MBT.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be committed to working collaboratively with service users, carers, and colleagues to create a psychologically safe environment that enables the delivery of effective treatment. The post holder will be required to actively participate in weekly team consultation meetings, and will offer specialist advice, supervision, training, and consultation to other professionals and teams to support effective and efficient psychologically-informed care and treatment across Bedfordshire and Luton. We would particularly welcome interest from candidates who are committed to co-producing the development of the care pathway through participation in clinical research, audit and/or quality improvement projects.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Newly qualified psychologists could be appointed at Band 7 under a preceptorship to work towards requirements for Band 8a, subject to satisfactory completion of preceptorship process.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology or equivalent training as an applied Practitioner Psychologist
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
Desirable criteria
- Training in clinical supervision for doctoral clinical psychology trainees.
- Accredited training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
Other
Essential criteria
- Willingness and ability to travel using own or public transport to travel between sites across Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and occasionally, London.
Desirable criteria
- Driver’s license and access to a vehicle insured for business use.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience of conducting trauma-informed psychotherapeutic assessments, risk assessments and collaborative safety planning in a community mental health setting.
- Post-qualification experience of autonomously managing a caseload in a community mental health setting
- Clinical experience delivering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to people with complex emotional needs associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’.
- Experience of working with people with comorbid mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, substance misuse and psychosis.
- Experience of supervising staff and/or students.
- Experience, skills and ability to liaise effectively with other agencies and professionals.
- Experience of teaching/training others.
- Experience of actively participating in coproduced service planning and delivery
- Experience of using outcome measures in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience delivering Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to people with complex emotional needs associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’.
- Experience of supervising the delivery of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to people with complex emotional needs associated with a diagnosis of ‘personality disorder.’
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal with highly stressful situations arising with service users, carers and staff
- Demonstrable skills in clinical outcome evaluation, audit, research and/or clinical governance.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and skills in an evidence-based therapy for people with ‘‘personality disorder’’
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
- Carol-Ann Sargent
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01582 293000
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