Job summary
- Main area
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 232-CMT-6354137
- Employer
- North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Hope Centre
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated psychologist with significant post registration experience to lead on our SMI therapies pathway. The role will be predominantly based within our NCAP rated level 4 “Top Performing” service but also reaching out across our entire psychosis pathway.
The role will include supporting, developing and maintaining all aspects of the pathway. Supporting workforce planning, addressing training needs and ensuring a consistent pathway of evidence based psychological treatments across our community psychosis services.
The post will be hosted within the Early Intervention (EI) in Psychosis and At Risk Mental State service (ARMS) including working clinically with some clients within this service, as well as leading our therapies team, which consists of psychologists, assistant psychologists, CBT therapists and family therapy practitioners. Training and good understanding of the psychological approaches to SMI, CBT-P, CBT-P supervision and NCAP, as well as a proven history of leadership is essential to the role. The team champion social inclusion for our client group and keen to embrace innovation and service development.
Main duties of the job
Across the organisation we are developing our pathways as part of our commitment to providing excellent, sustainable high quality care. Those experiencing SMI can be the most complex and resource intensive service users that the Trust supports. By investing in the therapeutic interventions we’re able to offer to this clients group, we will be acting to improve the long term prognosis for this client group.
The resource is being focused within the EI and ARMS aspect of the pathway in keeping with the Trust’s prevention strategic priority, working within the evidence base limit the impact of psychosis on an individual or with the right therapeutic support prevent it all together. Having a life altering impact on all aspects of an individual’s life, including life span, life opportunities and the need for ongoing mental health support.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it.
Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience. The Trust supports you by offering a flexible shift system including twilight shifts and compressed hours to support working families and our staff parking is free on all our main sites.
As an employee and representative of the Trust, you are required to demonstrate and uphold the Trust’s Values. These are:
Proud to CARE:
Compassionate
Caring with compassion, it’s about how we listen, what we say, what we do.
Approachable
Friendly, welcoming, sharing ideas and being open
Responsible
Taking personal and collective responsibility, being accountable for our actions
Excellent
Striving for the best, for high-quality safe care and continually improving.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for team delivery of highly specialist psychological care to clients experiencing a psychosis.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
To provide clinical supervision and training to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as a major part of the job and act as field supervisor to doctorate trainees.
To lead continual service improvement within own area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience
Essential criteria
- Must have substantial experience of Working as a qualified applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups including adult, with a range of clinical severity across care settings.
- Substantial experience of working with psychological approaches to for a minimum within psychosis services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of evidence-based practice relevant to the role
- Highly developed knowledge and skills in the care of difficult to treat groups e.g. dual diagnoses, additional disabilities or severely challenging behaviour
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
- Gavin Hicks
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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