Are you looking for a psychologist role where you work alongside a team comprising both multi-professional and peer recovery expertise to offer clarity, hope and innovative approaches to services users preparing for community living after years in inpatient settings? Working into a service which prioritises psychologically informed approaches, collaboration, coproduction, and integrated new ways of working? We are looking to expand our team with individuals who share our passion for promoting recovery.

The opportunity is now available for a full time 8a HCPC registered Psychological Practitioner to contribute to the growth of our service, CREST (Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team). Established in 2021, the team comprises a full multi-professional and peer recovery workforce who deliver new ways of working for people placed out of area (OOA) to effectively be repatriated from inpatient settings and forge new lives nearer to home. The aim is to empower people to define, build and live meaningful, independent and satisfying lives outside of locked settings, often termed complex rehabilitation.

We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision. We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.

Main duties of the job

As a psychologist working alongside a growing team of psychological practitioners, a full MDT and peer recovery workforce you would share your expertise and commitment to working with people experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties, which includes psychosis, trauma and risks of harm. This would include delivering appropriate direct and indirect clinical interventions, team formulations, reflective practice, consultancy and training to help develop a team-based and psychologically informed understanding of the service users' needs.

You would be supported by the consultant psychologist clinical lead, principal psychologist, and wider leadership group to empower individuals and teams to increase knowledge, skills, and professional confidence in improving service user outcomes. You would expand your knowledge and experience working across the Trust and region-wide ICS clinical and organisational landscape. As it is a new and developing service, you would have the opportunity to take a role in aspects of service design and development, supporting the team deliver effective approaches utilising both best practice and cutting-edge innovation to deliver the highest quality care. You would be invested in to consolidate and expand your professional development, through regular supervision, relevant CPD, training and development opportunities.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme (LYPFT pays 20.6% into your scheme each year), coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more organisations such as Blue Light Card, Health Service Discounts and NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Bank-only workers can choose the hours they want to work and will have the opportunity to gain additional experience, keep skills up to date, develop new ones and earn extra money without having to commit to a

permanent role. For an informal discussion or more information please contact the team bankstaffingdepartment.lypft@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

Suitable candidates can be appointed to the higher end role, but we are open to candidates seeking a development post, which will offer you a clear pathway to achieving the experience, skills and knowledge required to secure the higher end role/pay band within the team once the agreed competencies have been met.

You will be provided with a supportive learning environment for a defined period, which is designed to help you meet the requirements of the higher end role.

If on a development plan the post holder will be recruited to the lower band job description and person specification.

Flexible working hours can be discussed and as the role is regionwide, there would be combined direct and remote working to optimise both clinical delivery and staff wellbeing.

As a Senior Psychologist in a multi-disciplinary service, you will be responsible for providing high quality evidence-based, specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for service users. You will offer advice and consultation on service users psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, other agencies, non - professional carers, and communities. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service line policies and procedures.

We believe in the value of supervision you will be responsible for providing supervision to Trainee and Assistant Psychologists, where appropriate, as well as providing consultation and advice to members of the MDT and other professionals supporting service users. You will also engage in your own supervision and CPD activities. You will utilise research skills for audit, service development, evaluation, and research within the service area, as well as contributing to psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility.

Travel will be required across the West Yorkshire Area, with some travel to out of area hospitals outside of the West Yorkshire Footprint as part of assessment and engagement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996), MSc or higher in Forensic Psychology and HCPC registration

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification experience in an area of practice relevant to the service specified in the job summary, to include assessment of risk.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.

Training

Essential

• Formal training in supervision of others.
• Additional post qualification training relevant to the service and job role outlined in the job summary.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newsam Centre (nd other regional locations)

Leeds

LS14 6UH

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