Crynodeb o'r swydd
- Prif leoliad
- Clinical / Counselling Psychologists
- Gradd
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Parhaol
- Oriau
- Rhan-amser - 17.75 awr yr wythnos
- Cyfeirnod y swydd
- 306-BEH-2038
- Cyflogwr
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Math o gyflogwr
- NHS
- Gwefan
- Chase Farm Hospital
- Tref
- Enfield
- Cyflog
- £56,388 - £62,785 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yn flynyddol
- Yn cau
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Teitl cyflogwr
Clinical / Counselling Psychologist
Band 8a
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced Clinical / Counselling Psychologist who is keen to make a valuable impact to a fast changing diverse and complex client group within Acute Care. The successful candidate will be joining a newly configured network of psychologists working across the Acute Care Pathway within the North London Partnership (BEH – Barnet Enfield and Haringey /C&I – Camden and Islington). This professional cohort will provide great opportunities for joint working and enhanced professional development.
The post-holder will contribute to the provision of psychology as a member of the Acute Care Service, in Enfield. The post will be based in a new Inpatient Ward on the Chase Farm Site. Cumbria Villa is a 15 bedded mixed gender ward. As a Transition and Recovery Service, Patients with Low Intensity needs will be supported from Acute/Crisis Inpatient admissions towards discharge. The goal of is to provide patients with a safe and supportive environment as they transition from a higher level of care to less intensive treatment and eventual discharge.
We also welcome applications from newly qualified band 7 psychologists with a view to achieve career progression to a band 8a within 12 months as part of a preceptorship if appointed.
Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd
The post holder will work as a member of the Acute Care Service, in Enfield. This post will contribute to the delivery and support the continuous improvement of the therapeutic offer on the ward as well as taking a big role in the improvement of the culture on the ward. The post carries a specific remit to work with the ward team to develop a systematic, consistent and effective response to the common issues that arise within acute care settings that can have a powerful impact on the overall effectiveness and quality of experience for people using the service and the staff working in it.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024.
Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership
Why choose to join the Partnership?
- We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
- Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
- Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
- Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
- We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance
- NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
- We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work together
- We keep things simple
- We empower
- We are proudly diverse
In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Transition and Recovery Services: This name emphasises the idea that the ward is a transitional space where patients can receive support and services as they move from a more acute care setting to a less intensive one. The goal of is to provide patients with a safe and supportive environment as they transition from a higher level of care to less intensive treatment and eventual discharge.
• The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the systematic provision of a high-quality trauma-informed specialist psychology service within the acute care pathway. This will involve undertaking psychological assessments; evidence based short term psychological interventions, and contribute to the ward based therapeutic group work program and to provide individual and group supervision within multi-disciplinary teams.
• The post-holder will be responsible for providing psychological formulation and consultation to contribute to the care plans and management of service users currently being treated on the wards.
• As a team member both of the psychological therapies acute care teams and the ward MDT, the post-holder will be expected to work collaboratively, and with MDT members including the provision of joint assessments with Consultant Psychiatrists and joint working with other members of the team.
• The post-holder will provide specialist psychological assessment, treatment and consultation on patients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to non-professional carers working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
• The post-holder will supervise psychological assessment and therapy provided by attached doctoral trainees and supervise psychologically driven treatment interventions by other members of the MDT.
• The post-holder will provide training, supervision and support to other clinical members of the team, who provide psychologically based care and treatment.
• The post-holder will be expected to work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within the service/team.
• The post-holder will utilize skills for research and audit and contribute to policy and service development, in relation to the Psychological Therapies provision and in collaboration with the borough specific acute care services.
• The post-holder will support the Acute and CRHTT Lead in implementing post-incident support and reflective practice.
Manyleb y person
Education & Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
- Eligibility for Chartered Status with BPS
- Registered with HCPC as a practitioner psychologist.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology or equivalent
- Interest in Group work
Experience & Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Experience, including in the NHS, of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community/teams, primary care and in patient and day settings.
- • Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity 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 as a fully integrated MD team member
- • Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- • Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS and HCPC.
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
- • Experience of working systemically with MDT to promote quality and better outcomes for service users.
- • Experience of running a range of groups/workshops /courses for service users with psychosis and their carers.
- • Experience and knowledge of the Trauma Informed Care framework in clinical settings
- • Experience of participating in or supporting post-incident support
Skills & Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- • Competency in neuropsychological assessments
- • Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- • Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- • An ability to use and demonstrate psychological model-based formulations as part of clinical and care management planning
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. PTSD, psychosis, personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
- • High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
- • Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Personal Qualities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • An enthusiasm and commitment to the psychological treatment of those in the acute/urgent care pathway
- • Ability to work independently, reliably, and consistently with work agreed and managed at regular intervals.
- • Ability to maintain professional boundaries and form positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers
- • Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to “hold” the stress of others
Meini prawf dymunol
- • A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit
Other requirements
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
- • Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- • IT skills including e-mail, word processing and basic data base
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Personal experience of mental health problems.
- • Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
- • Ability to support MDT members in the provision of psychologically driven interventions
- • Interest and ability to contribute to service development
Bathodynnau ardystio / achredu cyflogwyr
Gofynion ymgeisio
Rhaid i chi gael cofrestriad proffesiynol priodol yn y DU.
Mae'r swydd hon yn ddarostyngedig i Orchymyn Deddf Adsefydlu Troseddwyr 1974 (Eithriadau) 1975 (Diwygio) (Cymru a Lloegr) 2020 a bydd angen cyflwyno Datgeliad i'r Gwasanaeth Datgelu a Gwahardd.
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Rhagor o fanylion / cyswllt ar gyfer ymweliadau anffurfiol
- Enw
- Dr Valentina Mantica
- Teitl y swydd
- Acute and CRHTT Psychology Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0208 702 3211
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