Job summary
- Main area
- Family Care
- Grade
- Band 8a - Band 7 Preceptorship post considered for newly qualified candidates
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mainly 9-5 Monday to Friday occasional weekend/Evening)
- Job ref
- 435-F049-23-D
- Employer
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Across East Lancashire Sites - mainly BGH
- Town
- Across East Lancashire Sites
- Salary
- £43,742 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Psychologist - Day Unit
Band 8a - Band 7 Preceptorship post considered for newly qualified candidates
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to Join our Intensive Support Team (IST) based at East Lancashire Child and Adolescent Service (ELCAS), Burnley General Hospital. The IST is unique and specialist day unit service, with an innovative and dynamic team, that provides essential mental health and educational support to enhance the social and psychological development of young people who are experiencing complex mental health difficulties.
The multi-disciplinary team (MDT) is led by a Consultant Child Psychiatrist and includes mental health practitioners, support practitioners, art psychotherapists, social workers and education staff. Young people referred to the IST often require specialist assessments and on-going interventions on a more frequent basis than community based CAMHS teams can provide.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking individual, who has excellent relational and interpersonal skills and a genuine commitment to working with this client group. You will be responsible for ensuring that you achieve the key objectives of delivering safe, personal and effective Emotional Health and Well Being for this specialist group of children and young people. This post will also provide input into the the ELCAS community team.
Main duties of the job
Your role would be to work as a specialist member of the clinical team, to assist in providing the highest quality clinical care, assessment, formulation and treatment for young people, their families and/or carers. This will involve managing a caseload of complex young people with a variety of emotional and mental health difficulties up to the age of 18. In addition to holding a clinical caseload, you will work with closely with other team members to provide a psychological perspective to understanding the needs of the young people. A large part of the role will also include providing consultation, supervision and staff training to other team members.
Supervision requirements are acknowledged and supported by East Lancashire Hospitals Trust and these will be negotiated with the successful candidate in order to meet local and professional need.
The role involves travel between sites, so access to private transport for work purposes is essential. Due to current circumstances the role may combine home working as well as working in community/hospital settings.
This post is advertised as a band 8a but we would also welcome newly qualified applicants with whom we would offer a preceptorship, starting at a band 7 but with targets to progress to an 8a within 2 years.
Working for our organisation
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is a large and integrated healthcare organisation, with a vision to be widely recognised for delivering safe, personal and effective care.
ELCAS, part of the Division of Family Care, is a specialist provider of mental health services for Children, Young People and their Families/Carers and is rated Outstanding by the CQC. At ELCAS our vision is to be a recognised centre of excellence that exceeds people’s expectations. As well as rated Outstanding by the CQC, we are also accredited by the Quality Network for Community CAMHS, part of the Royal College of Psychiatry Centre for Quality Improvement.
At ELCAS, we value supervision and CPD and regularly have training opportunities in line with our service transformation plan, especially around supervision and evidence-based interventions. We are proud of our close relationships we have with other departments within the Trust. In addition to this, we have links with local Universities, including Manchester, UCLAN, Edge Hill and we take trainees from the Manchester and Lancaster Clinical Psychology Training Courses.
ELCAS also has a strong track record of support for staff and for staff development. We want to support you in developing your career in children, young people and young adults’ mental health, and give you the opportunity to drive your ideas forward, having a positive impact on the lives of children and young people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a qualified specialist clinical psychology service to children, young people and their families, who access specialist children’s mental health services.
To provide specialist psychological assessment, formulation and psychological therapy. The emphasis is on delivering a high quality community oriented service, using evidence based practice
To offer advice and consultation to non-psychological colleagues and to other non-professional carers where psychological intervention is a key aspect of treatment programmes.
To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.
To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development within the area served by the service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent) as accredited by the BPS/HCPC, including specifically models of psychopathology. Skilled with administering, scoring and interpreting clinical psychometrics.
- Proficiency in using two or more distinct psychological therapies and extensive knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology
- Significant experience at similar grade working flexibility
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields or applied psychology
- Experience as a psychologist.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients
- Experience of working with a children
- Experience of teaching, training and supervising
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of selection and recruitment
- Experience of contributing to a psychological perspective within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/ or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non -professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
- Ability to plan and prioritise own clinical workload
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable criteria
- Understanding arising from personal experience of physical and /or mental health problems
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Taylor
- Job title
- Operational Lead - Day Unit and RAIS team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01282 804807
- Additional information
Sarah Thornton
Senior Clinical Psychologist
01282 804806 / [email protected]
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