Job overview
Please note this vacancy may close earlier than the closing date, please apply as soon as possible.
As this is a senior clinical role, all interviews are required to be face to face. The postholder must be able to work a Tuesday and Wednesday to support the day to day clinical support of the team.
As part of the national programme of mental health service transformation, Milton Keynes mental health services have created a Mental Health Hub, bringing together a number of teams to deliver care to clients in a more timely and accessible way.The service is needs-led, offering medical, social and psychological interventions within a stepped care model. The therapies pathway offers evidence-based interventions for complex trauma and mood presentations including Personality Disorder and Psychosis. The post holder will have strong leadership skills and clinical expertise in complex mental health difficulties. The post holder will have a key role in ensuring the development and systematic provision of high-quality specialist psychological therapies. The post holder will take a lead role in ensuring adherence to a good quality service model that supports more people access psychological therapies. They will lead on management of referrals and allocation to treatment pathways. They will also deliver and provide supervision for psychological interventions in their key areas of skill.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide specialist assessments of referred service users based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex psychological data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care. This will include providing working formulations with recommendations where appropriate and relevant.
2. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group
3. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, brief treatment and discharge of service users whose problems and/or concerns are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
4. To provide clinical placements for Doctoral Trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, ensuring those trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
Working for our organisation
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. Were always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To provide clinical placements for Doctoral Trainee Clinical/Counselling Psychologists, ensuring those trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
2. To provide training (CPD) to other mental health staff.
3. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with mental health across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
4. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical psychology as appropriate
5. To provide CPD and clinical supervision to other qualified psychologists and therapists for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service users’ functioning. To contribute to personal development / performance reviews / appraisals for qualified psychologists and therapists
6. To maintain and develop skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training and clinical supervision.
7.To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan
8. To ensure that all members of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of services users, through the provision of advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
9. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI can be used as a support tool, not a replacement for the applicant’s own work. Applications must remain personal, accurate, and reflective of the candidate’s real experience. AI-generated content must not misrepresent skills, qualifications, or experience. Over reliance on AI-generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant's chances of success.
We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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