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We are excited to advertise two senior psychologist posts to provide senior clinical leadership across a geographical area in adult community mental health services.

You will take key role in continuing to develop and implement the mental health division psychological workforce strategy in your area, and provide senior psychological leadership to the psychological workforce within your service area.

You will work alongside other senior leaders to support and strengthen the role of formulation-based care across your area, providing quick access to psychological assessment and formulation for service-users with the most complex needs, in conjunction with psychological colleagues from inpatient and crisis services.

If you are interested in taking a senior role that balances complex direct clinical work as well as indirect working and leadership and service development, we are keen to hear from  you.

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There are differences in the job roles between Hull and East Riding; please see the specific job descriptions and person specifications for full details. Key duties within both roles include:

• Provide leadership of the psychological workforce across your area
• Provide psychological assessment, consultation, formulation and intervention across your area with a focus on clients with the most complex needs.
• In collaboration with psychological colleagues in unplanned care services, to provide and ensure timely access to assessment and formulation for clients with complex needs and high presenting risks, and to make and support the implementation of recommendations for other clinicians/services/agencies as part of that work.
• Provide regular psychological consultation, assessment and formulation slots, both direct and indirect with colleagues from across the service and wider division, to support psychologically-informed care.
• Lead the implementation of formulation-based care from the beginning of a client’s journey within the service.
• To provide the senior psychological voice in the development and implementation of psychological provision and pathways across the teams, ensuring that the psychological workforce within the service work within the aims of the divisional psychological workforce strategy.
• To provide clinical and professional supervision to psychological professionals within the teams and wider division, alongside other senior colleagues.

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We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

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