Overview
The Nottinghamshire Adult Mental Health Acute and urgent care services provide high quality psychological assessment, intervention and consultancy within local adult acute mental health wards and crisis teams. We are seeking to recruit an experienced principal practitioner psychologist or someone wishing to develop principal level skills on a 12 months fixed term maternity cover basis. The post holder will provide clinical input to Rowan 2 inpatient ward and City CRHT team, working closely with the Consultant Lead Psychologist for Inpatient and Acute services as well as two additional principal psychologists who work part time within our team. You will hold a leadership role within the team and will support the team to adopt a psychological approach.
You will participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients\' needs, including a wide range of clinical presentations. You will complete brief psychological interventions with service users on a caseload shared across the team and work indirectly to provide advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary team, e.g., contributing a psychological perspective to care planning and guiding treatment plans at review meetings.
There are opportunities to help shape, plan, oversee and deliver group interventions within the inpatient and/or CRHT settings whilst providing supervision and leadership to less experienced members of the Acute and Crisis Psychology team. There are also frequent opportunities to provide training and contribute to service development.
For further information, please refer to the job description and person specification attachment in the advert. You will join an established, friendly and supportive group of qualified and assistant psychologists working into the Trust\'s acute adult mental health services, including inpatient wards and crisis teams across Nottinghamshire.
The post is line managed within the profession and clinical supervision will be provided by a senior psychologist in the service.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical input to Rowan 2 inpatient ward and City CRHT team, working with the Consultant Lead Psychologist for Inpatient and Acute services and other principal psychologists.
* Play a leadership role within the team and support the adoption of a psychological approach across the service.
* Participate in individual assessment and formulation of patients\' needs across a wide range of clinical presentations.
* Deliver brief psychological interventions on a shared caseload and provide indirect advice and consultation to the multi-disciplinary team, contributing psychological perspectives to care planning and review meetings.
* Promote wellbeing within the multi-disciplinary team and provide supervision and reflective practice.
* Shape, oversee and deliver group interventions within inpatient and/or CRHT settings; supervise and develop less experienced team members.
* Contribute to training and service development as opportunities arise.
Qualifications and experience
* Experience as a principal practitioner psychologist or readiness to develop principal level skills on a fixed-term maternity cover basis.
* Applicants seeking to progress to 8b NHS banding with significant demonstrated experience of working in acute adult mental health services are welcomed.
* Joiners will work within an established team delivering psychology across inpatient wards and crisis teams.
Other information
* DBS check: applicants are required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), and this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
* The Trust values equality and diversity; there are staff networks and wellbeing initiatives to support a diverse workforce. The Trust is committed to reducing carbon emissions and has teams dedicated to energy and environmental performance.
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