We are pleased to advertise a set of posts, that will comprise a psychology team, dedicated to facilitating service users' journeys through the acute care pathway. This 1.0 wte 7- 8a development post will be a great first post and sits within Avondale Assessment Unit , our mixed sex inpatient Clinical Decision Unit ( please see additional document for details of service areas and other advertised psychology posts attached to each area ) .

This will enable the post holder to influence and steer the individual service user recovery journey from admission withassessment and formulation, to transfer of main care into a treatment unit, other service or discharge. Your role will be pivotal in shaping and improving the service user journey in providing assessments of risk and need. Your direct clinical work will be located at Avondale Unit and staff support will also be an important focus in terms of providing opinions on risk and clinical need, reflective practice groups , devising formulations with the MDT, training, providing psychological debriefs, supervision and consultation.

Main duties of the job

You will be providing assessment of need and risk, formulation and one off pieces of therapeutic interventionfor the service users accessing Avondale. Staff support is a fundamental part of the role by supporting a Psychologically Informed Environment which provides trauma informed care. Contribution and involvement in clinical leadership will increase and develop as your role progresses from a band 7 to an 8a.

Due to a recent reconfiguration you will have the opportunity to work as a supportive team with 4 other registered psychologists ( from band 7 to 8a), and be supported and led by the 8b Principal Psychologist. You and your team will work together to provide joined up care to people accessing all areas of the service, liaising closely with your community colleagues, sharing formulations and devising care plans that support transitions between community and inpatient settings .

Appointment to banding is dependent on experience and applications are welcomed from people eligible to start at an 8a ( see JD& PS). Please see additional information for more detail about our services and the development role and contact us for a chat about the post and you are encouraged to visit the unit which we can arrange .

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job descriptions and person specifications for more about the role as well as the additional papers attached.

We welcome applicants for a band 7 development role as well as a band 8a and look forward to a discussion with you about the role and what you are looking for in a job and your career with us.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate doctoral level of training in clinical or counselling psychology or equivalent ( if trained before 1996) as accredited by the BPS
• To hold and maintain current professional registration in line with HCPC
• Completed training for supervising doctorate trainees for 8a role only

Desirable

• Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice for 8a role
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc.)
• Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of neuropsychological assessment tools as applied in mental health work
• Additional short specialist courses with demonstrable impact on practice

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical or counselling psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held for 8a role
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision for 8a
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups , across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency context
• Experience of working with trauma cases
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision for band 7

Desirable

• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level for 8a
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships for 8a
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision for band 7 and 8a

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring and teaching
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/ management skills at an advanced level for 8a

Employer details

Employer name

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avondale . Miranda House

Gladstone Street

Hull

HU3 2RT

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