The Psychology service for the Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Inpatient settings provides high quality psychological assessment, advice and intervention within local adult open and locked rehabilitation wards.

We are seeking a two fte Qualified Psychologist with a keen interest in enduring adult mental health to join our enthusiastic and supportive MDT. The rehabilitation inpatient roles form part of the Acute Care Network which consists of a team of Qualified Practitioner Psychologists, Assistants and Trainees . We pride ourselves on taking care of one another and nurturing personal and occupational wellbeing and growth. As a close knit and supportive team, we recognise the importance of one another's lives out of work and are considerate and flexible of the personal responsibilities that individuals hold. Recognising individuals' strengths, ambitions for CPD, and learning are all high priorities for the leadership team and opportunities for specialist training are supported financially and logistically. The post is line managed within the profession and clinical supervision will be provided by a senior psychologist in the service. The posts are suitable for recently qualified individuals or those with some experience.

We welcome applications from current third year trainees with a view to them developing to 8a's within the first 12-18 months through structured preceptorship and continual professional development support in order to develop their practice further.

Main duties of the job

Bracken House is a locked rehabilitation unit for men and women aged between 18 and 65 and those over 65 who are already accessing adult mental health services. Bracken House supports patients with mental health difficulties through a period of recovery. This allows them to achieve their potential in physical and mental wellbeing, work, education and social networks and activities.

145 Thorneywood Mount make is an 18 bedded open rehabilitation unit for adults with mental health problems. There are 12 male and 6 female beds spread across two adjacent sites. The care team specialise in treating enduring mental health difficulties with a view to meeting individualised recovery goals. The Team's ethos is to work in partnership with patients, establishing a shared understanding of their difficulties and respective treatment needs.

The post holders will work together to provide psychological assessment and a range of therapeutic modalities to a complex client group. The post holders will need to be highly motivated and able to work with complex cases, provide consultancy and supervision but within the guidelines, policies and procedures of the department and the Trust. They will need to be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council, or eligible for registration, and able to meet the travel needs associated with the post.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

This post holders will provide a full range of psychological support and leadership of psychological interventions to both Bracken House and 145 Thorneywood Mount our locked and open recovery units within Adult Mental Health services. The post holders will also contribute to audit, research, teaching, consultation, policy and service development within the rehab wards and the wider Adult Mental Health Service.

The main responsibilities of the job are:-

To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to the staff, patients and carers involved with the Rehabilitation Wards.

To offer advice and consultation on clients psychological care to staff from other disciplines and non-professional carers.

To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the rehabilitation inpatient settings.

To utilise research skills for audit and research and contribute to policy and service development across Adult Mental Health.

To undertake relevant teaching, training and supervision both within the rehabilitation wards as well as more broadly across AMH as appropriate

For further details please see full job description attached.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Post-doctoral training in one or more specialisms

Experience
Essential

• Working as an applied psychologist within the designated service including a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and a range of clinical severity across a range of care settings
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, training, and clinical supervision and field supervisor for doctoral theses
• Research and development
• Quality and service improvement and evaluation

Desirable

• Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies
• Experience of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental difficulties

Knowledge
Essential

• Doctoral level knowledge of evidence-based practice relevant to the role, risk assessment and risk management, clinical governance, legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, audit and research methodology, social inclusion agenda

Desirable

• Knowledge of trauma informed approaches

Skills
Essential

• Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people
• Adapt creatively the evidence base for interventions in mental health for clients with communication difficulties/learning disabilities
• Provide effective teaching, training and clinical supervision for the multidisciplinary team
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care coordination/lead practitioner responsibilities
• Undertake complex multi-agency working and liaise with multiple systems
• Utilise psychometric tests competently
• Identify, provide and promote appropriate interventions/means of support for carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours
• Utilise appropriate clinical governance mechanisms within own work
• Use appropriate breakaway techniques
• Demonstrate effective keyboard skills
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional, academic and public settings

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