Principal Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist PDPathway Lead

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

The closing date is 31 May 2022

Job summary

This is a great opportunity for a practitioner psychologist or psychological therapist to lead our adult community personality disorders pathway in Great Yarmouth and Waveney. We have several practitioners from diverse professional background who trained in dialectical behavioural therapy and have implemented DBT treatments across the community services. Our care group is committed to develop further a pathway that consistently delivers high quality services for people with personality disorders, with a strong focus on evidence-based, and needs typing based approaches.

The post holder will work under the supervision of a consultant practitioner psychologist in order to develop further, monitor, and deliver a pathway of evidence-based interventions for service users with a personality disorder.

The post holder will lead and supervise psychological professionals delivering psychological interventions for service users with personality disorders in the CMHTs and in the primary care network (PCN).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver training to staff in CMHTs and PCN in order to develop awareness, formulation skills, and MDT interventions according to a stepped care approach.

The post holder will lead on rolling out training on needs typing and ensure that this approach is consistently used to deliver psychological care to service users with personality disorders.

The post holder will lead on the evaluation of personality disorders services across the CMHTs and PCN.

The post holder will provide individual and group psychological interventions for service users with personality disorders and complex mental health issues across the two CMHTs.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision to staff who are qualified and in training.

The post holder will be a key player in supporting a co-produced vision of services development, enabling and empowering service users to have equal voice in shaping up psychological services.

We have strong links with the local university both for teachings and for supervision of doctoral trainees. We welcome innovation and we are keen to support quality improvement and research projects.

We are very committed to support diversity in the psychological professions and for all NSFT roles, therefore we welcome applications from applicants with diverse backgrounds.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more
• Relocation packages.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Reasonable confidence and competence in using IT systems (e.g. Outlook, Word, clinical or other record systems) relevant to the role.

Experience

Essential

• Specialist complex psychological assessment and treatment of people with a wide range of mental health problems, of varying severity and complexity
• Relevant experience in service area
• Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist and evidence of specialist knowledge gained through practice and ongoing training
• Application of psychology/psychological therapies in different cultural contexts
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups and presenting problems including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
• Teaching, training and delivering clinical supervision.

Desirable

• Working in the relevant service to support specialist knowledge
• Representing psychology/psychological therapies within MDT setting (clinical and organisational contexts).
• Experience of clinical work in a setting relevant to the post

Qualification

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, or its equivalent, including eligibility for chartered status with the BPS
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or a recorded/registered qualification in one of the following - nursing, social work, occupational therapy, arts therapy or a psychological therapy - plus further post graduate level diploma qualification training in CBT and Accredited as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist by the British Association of Cognitive & Behavioural Psychotherapies (BABCP).
• Further post-qualification, post-graduate training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Desirable

• Evidence of CPD in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice

Knowledge

Essential

• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities etc.)
• Practitioner level knowledge of at least two models of psychological therapy
• Providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/BABCP.
• Legislation and its implication for clinical practice and the appropriate management of people presenting with mental health problems
• Creating and delivering presentations and training programmes in line with specialist knowledge.

Other

Essential

• Able to identify, and employ appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
• Ability to travel independently

Desirable

• Experience of providing specific support intervention and strategy for staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Great Yarmouth & Waveney

Northgate Hospital

Great Yarmouth & Waveney

NR30 1BU

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)