Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Within this role, you will also be part of a psychology led Children's Long Term Health Conditions team.
Your clinical work will comprise of, screening, consultation and the assessment of need and risk, formulating with and for the MDT, delivering bespoke highly specialist psychological interventions and liaising with community and IP colleagues to ensure a joined up patient journey through our services. You will be supervising doctoral level psychology trainees on placement and assistants when they are in post.
You will be supported through clinical, professional and managerial supervision and we support and encourage CPD relevant to your clinical area. Accessing forums that support your role is encouraged such as Action Learning Sets, coaching, The Trust Proud Leadership Course and mentoring; attendance is expected at Psychology Department CPD days as they keep you connected and supported professionally. Providing clinical leadership alongside the clinical and team leads to the teams will be a strong part of your role and you will be encouraged to engage in CPD and research /audit .
Main duties of the job
Your clinical work will comprise the assessment of need and risk, formulating with and for the MDT, delivering bespoke highly specialist psychological interventions, running reflective practice groups, providing in house training and supervision to the team, running group psychological debriefs when needed and liaising with community and IP colleagues to ensure a joined up patient journey through our services. You will be supervising doctoral level psychology trainees on placement and assistants when they are in post.
Working for our organisation
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.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and knowledge
* Post-graduate doctoral level training or its equivalent in clinical psychology as accredited by the BPS
* Current HCPC registration
* Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, such as neuroassessment, as applied in identified clinical area
* Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. complex PTSD, personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with disabilities etc)
Experience
* Demonstrable experience of working as a clinical psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific field where the post is held
* Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings
* Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
* Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
Skills and competencies
* Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising
* Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
* Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
* Be able to demonstrate leadership/ management skills at an advanced level
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Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.
To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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