Job summary

Part Time - 18.75 Hours Per Week

We are excited to be advertising for an experienced and enthusiastic psychologist to join the multi-disciplinary team at the inpatient Learning Disability Assessment & Treatment unit at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield.

The Horizon Centre (ATU) is an 8-bedded acute admissions ward for adults with learning disabilities who require inpatient assessment and/or treatment for mental or behavioural disorder. We are focused on delivering a therapeutic model of care underpinned by Active Support, Positive Behaviour Support and Trauma informed care.

The psychologist position within the MDT is a permanent AfC band 8a post supporting the ward for 18.75hrs each week (0.5wte).

Successful applicants will need to be registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

For an informal discussion about the above post please contact:

Andrew Birkenshaw (Temporary Ward Manager)

andrew.birkenshaw@swyt.nhs.uk Tel: 07919166189

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the multi-disciplinary inpatient team, you will be responsible for providing a variety of psychological and behavioral assessments of people with learning disabilities across a range of ability levels, developing formulations, recommendations and implementing therapeutic intervention with support from the psychology assistant and wider support team.

You will also be responsible for providing specialist psychological support, guidance and advice to families & carers, other professionals within the care network and the local clinical team.

This is a key role to ensure that the patients who access our ward are supported in a holistic way and any support provided is carried out in a theoretical and therapeutic manner.

In addition to joining the inpatient clinical MDT, the post holder will be joining a well-established psychology team within the wider learning disability service in SWYPFT and will receive supervision from an experienced Clinical Psychologist within the service.

About us

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

JOB PURPOSE:

• The post holder will provide a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to clients as part of the multidisciplinary team within the service.
• Provide highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention.
• Provide advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, and other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines, and the overall framework of the team and trusts policies and procedures.
• Supervise and support Psychology Assistants, Trainees and Band 7 HCPC Registered Clinical Psychologists.
• To utilise research skills for audit, policy, service development and research within the areas served by the team/service.

JOB DIMENSIONS:

• To offer consultation and supervision when required by other agencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being of service users.
• To provide supervision of Band 7 Clinical Psychologists, doctoral level clinical psychology trainees, assistant psychologists and trainees from other disciplines as appropriate.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment for service users experiencing moderate, severe and complex mental health/psychological problems based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect observation and semi-structured interviews with service users, their family and/or carers.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological intervention and/or management of mental health/psychological and/or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and exercising expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence based practice across a full range of care settings.

To establish rapport and build effective working relationships with service users and all those involved in their psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.

To work jointly with other team members and professionals in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to service users and, where appropriate, their families/carers.

For full job description please see attached supporting documents

Person Specification

Training

Essential

• Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists

Special Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Good Psychometric Assessment skills
• Experience of assisting in training of Post Graduate Clinical Psychology Trainees
• Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non verbal and written modes
• Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance
• Ability to Formulate Complex processes
• Capacity to conduct Psychometric Assessment
• Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role
• Keyboard skills
• Manual Dexterity for conducting tests

Desirable

• Working with people in Crisis
• Working on an in-patient Psychiatric ward

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role
• To transport Psychometric testing equipment

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient 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
• Frequent, protracted sustained and intense concentration
• Show respect and treat people with dignity
• Be able to give bad news sensitively
• Be able to sustain empathy in difficult situations
• Be aware of all interviewees in any situation

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of groupwork

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
• Significant Post qualification experience in a Setting relevant to the post
• HCPC Registration as a Clinical Psychologist

Physical Attributes

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post
• A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy)

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