Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Job Description
Job summary
We are seeking to recruit a high calibre, newly qualified Clinical or Counselling Psychologist. We encourage career progression to allow successful candidates the opportunity to develop their skills and competencies in-line with service needs. One day a week is available to complete continuing professional development (CPD) and facilitate specific training in evidence-based therapies to a professionally accredited standard. After a minimum of two years from appointment and the completion of set targets, the successful applicant will have the opportunity for promotion to Agenda for Change Band 8a.
The successful candidate will join a team of Practitioner Psychologists, Psychological Therapists and Assistant Psychologists, providing Psychological assessments and evidence-based therapies to Adults within North East Lincolnshire. The Psychology team work closely with colleagues across Navigo, providing Psychological consultancy, support and guidance.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be embedded into the Community Psychology service, alongside other Psychological professionals, delivering therapies to service users referred to the Psychology department.
The department receive referrals for a range of mental health disorders, such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Personality Disorder, Bipolar, Depression and Anxiety Disorders, so the candidate will develop a variety of therapeutic skills and work towards accreditation in evidence-based therapies.
The candidate may be required to conduct psychometric investigations of neuropsychological difficulties, supporting colleagues with formulation and treatment planning.
Other duties may include attending MDT's, being involved in the training of non-Psychology staff, as part of the organisations Community Mental Health transformation strategy, and also providing supervision to other Psychology professionals and occasionally other mental health professionals across the organisation.
About us
Hello!
We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire's mental health and well-being, an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.
The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.
We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.
Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we feature in the Best Companies top 100 large company list.
As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre.
Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.
We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.
Come and Join us !
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Job responsibilities
Accountable for own professional practice in the delivery of specialist psychological care to clients with complex mental health conditions, which may include challenging behaviours.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of clients, their carers and families.
To provide advice, guidance and clinical supervision to less experienced colleagues within the designated psychology service and to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
To undertake formal research as an integral part of the job.
To be pro-active in continual service improvement within own area.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with mental ill health and any associated disabilities.
To maintain minimum standards in accordance with local Payment by Results developments and, in conjunction with colleagues, develop outcome measures to provide an empirically measured standard for delivery of own and supervises psychological provision.
To promote at all times a positive image of the service and the wider organisation
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1.1 - Provides specialist psychological assessment of clients with complex conditions based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources.
1.2 - Formulates plans for specialist psychological therapy and/or management of clients mental health conditions based upon an appropriate conceptual framework and evidence-based practice. Negotiates the implementation of such plans with clients and/or their carers.
1.3 - Implements a range of specialist psychological therapies for individual clients, carers, families and groups, adjusting and refining psychological formulations as required.
1.4 - Evaluates therapy options and makes decisions about treatment.
1.5 - Provides specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other staff contributing directly to clients diagnosis, formulation and intervention plan.
1.6 - Responsible for recognising the potential for or signs of client harm, abuse or neglect, including poor clinical practice, reporting all such concerns and taking all reasonable steps to protect the client. Responsible for identifying and reporting concerns regarding the safeguarding of children who may be at risk.
1.7 - Undertakes risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and provides specialist advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
Administrative Responsibilities.
2.1 - Required at times to undertake administrative tasks in relation to own work.
2.2 - Uses Microsoft Office applications on a daily basis.
Responsibility for information systems.
3.1 - Responsible for maintaining accurate and comprehensive patient/client records using SYSTMONE in accordance with the organisational and professional record keeping standards.
3.2 - Writes reports for other members of the multidisciplinary team and external parties regarding patient/client related matters.
3.3 - Uses psychometric testing and associated software packages.
3.3 - May use software packages for statistical analysis.
Responsibility for Planning/Organising & Strategic/Business Development
4.1 - Organises own workload on a day-to-day basis, prioritising work as appropriate.
4.2 - Assists in the allocation of work to assistant and trainee psychologists.
4.3 - Plans individual patient/client care and acts as care co-ordinator/lead practitioner, where appropriate, ensuring the provision of a multidisciplinary care package appropriate for the clients needs.
Policy Development
5.1 - Ensures that new or revised policies and procedures are communicated effectively to assistant, trainee and newly qualified psychologists and put into practice.
5.2 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing changes to local procedures and working practices in own area and plays a significant role in implementation.
Service Development, Project Management
6.1 - Pro-active in identifying and proposing safety, quality and service improvements within own work area.
6.2 - Participates in the development, monitoring and evaluation of service improvements in own area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical / counselling psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registration as a clinical/counselling psychologist
- Trained in care co-ordination (within agreed timescale)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model
- Registration with BPS
- Trained in clinical supervision (within agreed timescale)
Experience
Essential
- Must have experience/interest in working with serious mental illness cohorts
- Multi-disciplinary team working
Desirable
- Experience of CBT, DBT, EMDR and other evidence-based therapies
- Experience in conducting cognitive assessments in memory and intellect.
- Experience of group therapy
- Experience of research and audit
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Communicate complex and highly sensitive information ...
