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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8D
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-AE-21051-A
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cavendish House
Town
Hastings
Salary
£88,168 - £101,677 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/12/2024 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Multi Professional ApprovedResponsibleClinician ConsultantPsychologist

NHS AfC: Band 8D

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Are you an  ambitious and experienced Consultant Psychologist ready to take the next step in your career in an environment where you will be supported to grow & develop? A unique & exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our transformation of urgent and acute care. This new post is for a Multi Professional Approved Clinician within our mental health services in East Sussex.

Opportunity open to either

Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who have achieved Approved Clinician status. Applicants will be already approved by the appropriate authority to act as an Approved Clinician in England for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007). You will be appointed at an 8D.

Or Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who can commit to training to become an Approved Clinician. MPACs in dedicated training roles will receive full support to undertake the 18 month training & completion of the portfolio in readiness for submission to the local approvals panel. The MPAC in training roles are banded at 8b (practitioners already working at 8C will maintain their 8C grade & terms and conditions for the duration of their training). On completion of the programme & following successful approval the MPAC in training will  progress to a band 8D Multi-Professional Approved and Responsible Clinician post.

The post holder will work into the inpatient & urgent care pathway in Hastings.

For more information on this role please see  attached  JD for Qualified & Trainee.

 

Main duties of the job

Qualified Clinician:

Lead in a specialist field of clinical and professional practice: namely as a Consultant Psychologist / Responsible Clinician. To be responsible, in collaboration with operational management and multi-professional colleagues, for the development and implementation of this specialist field of practice/training/research, within locality and across the Trust. To carry out responsibilities as job planned within the service as a consultant practitioner psychologist and approved / responsible clinician.

Please refer to Qualified  JD for  more details

Trainee Clinician:

This is a 12 - 18 month Approved Clinician (AC) training post that forms part of the very senior clinical workforce. The post holder is expected to be at consultant level capability as defined by the HEE document. The postholder will develop the eight core competencies of an Approved Clinician (AC), accessing support from a variety of professional backgrounds, divisions and organisations. This broadening of the trainee’s knowledge and clinical experience is vital towards submitting a successful portfolio of evidence to the regional MHA Approvals Panel. AC status must be achieved within 18 months of commencing in role.

Please refer to Trainee JD for  more details

Working for our organisation

Working here offers continued training and development, flexible working opportunities, free parking and the benefit of living and working in East Sussex. East Sussex is a beautiful county with great schools, good transport links, vibrant communities, rural areas, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Qualified: 

  • Hold a specialist clinical caseload and maintain a very high / statutory degree of clinical responsibility for patients on caseload, while providing consultant level clinical services within a designated care group to a group of patients who may or may not be managed under the Mental Health Act 1983.
  •  Provide a very senior / overall clinical leadership function to MDT colleagues and others within a designated care group, for designated patients, as a Consultant Psychologist and in a statutory clinical lead role, as Responsible Clinician.
  •  Provide expert guidance, advice, consultation and supervision to own professional group and to MDT colleagues, and patient.
  • Contribute and lead on organisational, policy and clinical service developments and utilise advanced skills in research, quality improvement, outcome measurement, audit, teaching, training and lecturing to support evidence-based practice and high standards of service delivery within the designated care group, completing research and quality improvement projects as required, and supporting others to do so.   

Trainee: 

§  Being accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities; this may include psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity and involve significantly challenging behaviours (with risk of physical aggression).

§  Planning individual patient care and where appropriate co-ordinating care within the MDT and external agencies.

§  Undertaking the role of Trainee Approved Clinician for an identified client group incorporating the eight clinical competencies below, as per Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance:

1.     A comprehensive understanding of the roles, legal responsibilities and key functions of the AC and RC.

2.     An applied knowledge of the legal and policy framework. This includes mental health and all other relevant legislation, codes of practice, policy and guidance and relevant NICE guidance.

 

Please refer to JD for full details

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professionally qualified mental health professionals in one of the following groups: 1. A Practitioner Psychologist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 2. A Nurse, registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as practicing within the mental health or learning disability fields 3. An Occupational Therapist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 4. A Social Worker, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 5. A master’s degree or doctoral degree qualification, within the candidate’s professional field or related therapy discipline or equivalent level qualification
  • A postgraduate certificate or diploma, within the candidate’s professional field or related therapy discipline (or equivalent, such as the Higher Specialist Award in Social Work).
  • Be prepared to undertake a specific qualification in service areas where the Application form role is required. For this particular post, it is not essential to be an independent prescriber, or to become an independent prescriber prior to achieving AC approval.
  • Commitment to undertake AC training including attendance at AC Portfolio Workshops and Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Law: Mental Health (Approved Clinician Preparatory Programme)
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies. Working with patients as covered by the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, MHA Code of Practice Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession. Managing multi-agency service delivery models. Autonomous clinical decision making Experience of managing change e.g. implementing new models of care, new pathways, service development activities Undertaking research activity Goal setting and delivery of targets within deadlines. Working well under pressure, within tight deadlines, and producing good quality results Undertaking mental health assessments incorporating biological, psychological, cultural and social perspectives Leading formulation, review and treatment within the context of the multidisciplinary team Assessing capacity to consent to treatment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Brummer
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

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