We are seeking an enthusiastic & dynamic Applied Psychologist / Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist to join our Trustwide Adolescent Forensic Outpatient Service (AFOS) based at Acklam Road Hospital.

The post holder will be part of a wider mental health team providing a combination of consultation, formulation, intervention and training. The service aims to enhance professional understanding of the young people involved with the criminal justice system and embed trauma informed care principles within the local youth justice services across Durham Tees Valley. If you are passionate about being innovative in your work and making a real and meaningful difference to the lives of young people, we would be delighted to hear from you.

You will have excellent communication skills to promote and develop excellent interagency working and have experience of working with young people who present with a complex and multiple needs. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and within multi-disciplinary teams contributing to overall service delivery improvements as required.

Although this post is advertised as an 8a post, we are willing to consider applications from Psychologists who do not yet meet the essential criteria for a Band 8a, but who would be interested in undertaking the post at a Band 7 initially, with a supportive plan for development and progression in due course.

Main duties of the job

To provide a psychology service to Youth Justice Services across Durham Tees Valley alongside other qualified psychologists, nurses, social worker and assistant psychologists.

To provide specialist psychological consultation, assessment and intervention for young people in the youth justice service who present with mental health or neurodisability concerns or who have significant complex trauma backgrounds.

To support the youth justice teams in embedding trauma informed care principles.

To provide supervision where appropriate to qualified staff, trainees and assistant psychologists.

To contribute to overall service delivery as required.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area served by the team/service.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job descriptions and person specifications for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. You can find more information about the NHS Leadership Academys Healthcare Leadership Model and the profiles at their website. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

This vacancy is open to either experienced Band 8a or Band 7 as a development post with appropriate Job Description and banding being applied accordingly to the successful candidate. Successful candidates who are Band 7 will be expected to work towards the competencies of the higher band within an agreed time frame being regraded to the 8a role upon successful completion.

Additional contact details :- Sarah Watson - Team Manager

sarah.watson19@nhs.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist
• Post doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice - Band 8a
• Trained in clinical supervision and the supervision of doctoral trainees
• Trained in care co-ordination
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Registration with BPS
• Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model

Experience

Essential

• Working as a qualified 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 or if applying at Band 7 experience of working within mental health
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable

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

Knowledge / Skills

Essential

• Risk assessment and risk management
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Communicate highly complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people

Desirable

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

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Acklam Road Hospital

Acklam Road

Middlesbrough

TS5 4EE

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