We have a vacancy for 0.8 wte 8b Clinical Psychologist within North Nottinghamshire Step 4 Psychological Therapies.

The successful applicant will be working directly with patients living in the community experiencing a range of mental health problems, including complex trauma, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and other presentations of complex psychological distress.

The service has excellent links to primary care and Local Mental Health Teams and close working relationships with clinicians across the psychological therapies pathway, including psychological therapists in integrated team posts. We are keen to continue to enhance and develop psychological interventions across all pathways to improve the therapeutic offer. This post will provide opportunities to influence the development of such pathways.

We are seeking candidates who are adaptable and responsive to the needs of the service and can support strategic developments in the wider Trust. There will be an expectation to actively contribute to:

• leadership and management
• training, including offering placements to D Clin Psych trainees
• supervision
• service developments
• audit/service evaluation

Our commitment to you is we will provide you with opportunities to develop professionally within committed and supportive adult mental health services. We are keen for you to bring your skills and interests to support innovation and service developments, including increasing access to psychological therapies.

Main duties of the job

• direct clinical work with patients living in the community experiencing a range of mental health problems, including complex trauma, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and other presentations of complex psychological distress.
• training, including offering placements to D Clin Psych trainees
• supervision and management responsibilities for junior staff
• proposing and delivering service developments
• audit/service evaluation related to Step 4 and wider services where appropriate
• operational leadership responsibilities in the Team.

There will also be opportunities to influence the development of psychological therapies pathways to improve the therapeutic offer in Adult Mental Health.

About us

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

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

Applied Psychologists are a respected and valued resource within the Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Services, and this is an exciting opportunity to contribute at a senior level to the developments around psychological therapies pathways in the Trust.

The post will be line managed by the professional lead for Clinical Psychology.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a strong commitment to staff well-being and you will both benefit from this and have opportunities to contribute to its value, by supporting organisational aspects of compassion in the various settings in which you will work.

• direct clinical work with patients living in the community experiencing a range of mental health problems, including complex trauma, depression, anxiety, dissociation, and other presentations of complex psychological distress.
• training, including offering placements to D Clin Psych trainees
• supervision and management responsibilities for junior staff
• proposing and delivering service developments
• audit/service evaluation related to Step 4 and wider services where appropriate
• operational leadership responsibilities in the Team.

There will also be opportunities to influence the development of psychological therapies pathways to improve the therapeutic offer in Adult Mental Health.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Doctorate level qualification in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996)
• Registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the HCPC

Training
Essential

• Post-qualification training including specialist training in specific therapeutic approaches or clinical topics relevant to Adult Mental Health.

Desirable

• Training regarding clinical leadership.

Experience
Essential

• Significant post qualification experience
• Post Qualification Experience of working within an Adult Mental Health NHS setting.
• Post Qualification Experience of working in a Team setting
• Experience of liaison and consultation with other professionals
• Supervising other clinicians
• Evaluating and auditing professional working

Desirable

• Providing leadership / management to other psychologists.
• Supervising other psychologists.
• Teaching mental health professionals about psychological issues.
• Experience of clinically relevant research
• Experience of representing psychology within the broader organisational context
• Experience of leading clinical initiatives / projects
• Involvement in the planning and development of psychological services

Knowledge
Essential

• Extensive and up-to-date knowledge of relevant theory and research through reading and CPD.
• IT skills sufficient for the purposes of word processing, data entry and statistical analysis.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Knowledge of a range of therapeutic approaches
• Ability to undertake specialist assessments, develop formulations and provide psychological interventions.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research, design, and methodology.
• Knowledge of broader issues impacting on the delivery of psychological services within mental healthcare.

Skills
Essential

• Effective verbal and written communication skills and relationship building skills.
• Teaching Skills
• Planning Skills to organise workload and contribute to service co-ordination and delivery of care to the individual and wider Adult Mental Health Directorate.
• Skills for assessment involving complex facts where expert opinion may differ.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• IT skills
• Leadership skills

Desirable

• Planning skills to co-ordinate others workload and clinical practice within the Team setting.

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