Are you an experienced clinician looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to join a service at a time of exciting change?

We are looking for applications from highly motivated and enthusiastic psychologists who are committed to delivering patient-focused care and treatment.

We are keen to invest in the development of new practitioners joining our service to enhance their knowledge, skills, clinical practice, leadership and confidence in working in this area. We are therefore looking for applicants who either have experience of working in an inpatient with adults and older adults or have a good foundation of transferable skills and an interest to develop in this area.

In CNWL, psychological professions have a strong sense of leadership and a distinct professional identity. There is an emphasis on Continuing Professional Development and developing your skills in line with your career progression goals.

We will consider applications from HCPC registered psychologists who are interested in a band 7 to 8a developmental role, please state this in the supporting information section of your application.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for practitioners who can work confidently and adaptively in a demanding setting alongside multidisciplinary teams and are passionate about leading the development of psychological therapy pathways within our service.

The post holder will split their time between the adult and older adult wards and be expected to provide psychological input and treatment through a trauma-informed approach. They will have a range of clinical training and experience, and have the required communication and interpersonal skills that will allow them to thrive when working within their own team and with external partner organizations.

Additional support and training will be provided for clinicians to gain supervision experience and qualification within the relevant framework and commissioned funding. The successful candidate will receive regular supervision and support from the Clinical Service Lead and other team members.

Candidates applying for the post will need to be a qualitied and registered psychologist, with the HCPC or equivalent.

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Welcome to Psychological Therapies at Milton Keynes Mental Health Services :: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (cnwl.nhs.uk)

About us

We are delighted that you are interested in working with us here CNWL. We work in collaboration with our AHP and Social Work colleagues and value the lived experiences of both our staff and service users. Open Dialogue is a key focus for the Mental Health part of the Trust, engaging with families and support networks as well as the individual.

Here at CNWL we encourage our psychological professions staff to pursue leadership opportunities in senior roles. Various prominent leadership roles within the Trust are currently held by Psychologists including: Director of Strategy and Integration, Chief Information Officer, 3 Clinical Directors. We try to facilitate the development of our psychological professions staff across all areas.

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We have partnered with Bespoke and Contextual Consulting to provide some of the profession specific CPD, alongside additional CPD sessions for Psychological Professions. CNWL also has seven established staff networks supporting a range of individual needs.

There are great opportunities to consolidate your identity as a psychologist, and deepen and widen your skills, to gain further experience of and receive high level training in CBT, EMDR, systemic family and couples' therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, CAT, MBT and DBT and SCM.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation for service users of the Milton Keynes Mental Health Services, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients car

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service users mental health difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service users difficulties, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.

To integrate with the psychological formulation specialist knowledge of complex mental health presentations.

To understand the impact of acute mental health presentations, and to offer appropriate advice to the patient, carers and clinicians in the light of such understanding.

To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to Milton Keynes Mental Health staff contributing directly to service users formulations and treatment plans.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all service users, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment of service users under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care

To provide expertise, advice and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team, where appropriate

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or its equivalent, including specifically models of mental health, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Post qualification training in a specialist psychological therapy / family / systemic therapy or neuropsychology.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of service users across the full range of care settings, including community, primary care and in service user settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of service user 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.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a clinical psychologist, or an alternative agreed by the Trust Chief Psychologist.
• Experience of the application of clinical or counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.

Desirable

• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Experience working as a specialist clinical psychologist under supervision.

Knowledge

Essential

• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
• Knowledge of trauma informed care and its application to menta health services.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists, including trainees.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex emotional needs, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc).
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Campbell Centre

Hospital Campus, Eaglestone

Milton Keynes

MK6 5NG

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