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Registered Practitioner Psychologist
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Mersey Care NHS FT, Golden Hill, South Ribble
- Onsite working
- Full time
- Permanent
Posted today, 23 May
Job ref: 2baf0054d6f84114886c63694fa90522
Full Job Description
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and committed Band 8a Psychologist to join the Community Forensic Learning Disability Service (CFLDS). The service covers the Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint with an office/base in Leyland. We support people with learning disabilities (LD) who have complex needs associated with challenging or offending behaviour.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the transition of individuals with a Learning disability (LD) moving out of secure settings into the community. Also working to support individuals in the community to prevent admission to secure settings.
The successful applicant would join a well-established and friendly team to provide evidence-based interventions to service users with LD who maybe experiencing complex mental health issues; have trauma histories; ASC/ADHD diagnoses in addition to offending/risky behaviours. This post would suit someone with a keen interest in providing direct clinical input as well as working with wider systems (e.g., family and carers) and multidisciplinary and multi-agency working., 1. Provide specialist psychological assessments of service users based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.
2. To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patient's psychological problems.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, and groups, within and across teams.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account relevant theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical, developmental and systemic processes that have shaped the individual, family or group. To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans. To provide specialist psychological advice guidance and consultation to other professionals and/or carers
5. To ensure that all members of the clinical team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of service users.
6. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide both general and specialist advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management., 1. To provide post-qualification training (CPD) and clinical professional supervision to recently qualified HCPC registered psychologists attached to the team, where appropriate.
2. To provide advice, consultation, training and clinical supervision to other members of the team for the provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve service users functioning.
3. To provide pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychologists and/or other psychological services staff, and other disciplines as appropriate.
4. To develop and maintain skills in the area of professional pre- and post-graduate training.
5. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
6. To receive regular professional supervision from a senior psychologist in the team and where appropriate other senior colleagues.
7. To continue to gain wider post-qualification experience of psychology in line with HCPC, and where appropriate BPS, requirements.
8. To provide professional and clinical supervision to assistant psychologists and, as appropriate, supervise Doctoral level.
9. To contribute to the pre and post-qualification teaching of all relevant staff, as appropriate.
Management, Recruitment and Service Development
1. To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment, both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistant, trainees and qualified psychologists.
2. To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality responsive and accessible service, including proposing and implementing changes within the psychological service.
3. To exercise delegated responsibility for managing psychology staff based within the psychology service.
Research and Service Evaluation
1. To contribute and where appropriate take a lead role, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of of service evaluation and audit
2. To Incorporate psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care and the improvement of services for service users and their families.
3. To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
4. To undertake appropriate research as agreed with the line manager and Lead Consultant Clinical Psychologist and provide research advice to team colleagues undertaking research.
5. To undertake a defined role in Service Governance structures if/when agreed with the service lead.
General
1. To ensure the development, maintenance and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes and to provide evidence of CPD undertaken, e.g. in the form of CPD log book.
2. To ensure the development and articulation of best practice in psychology within the service area and contribute across the service by exercising the skills of a reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical or forensic psychology and related disciplines.
3. To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self- governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the HCPC, British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
4. To maintain up-to-date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific service user group and area of care.
5. To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade which may be required by the Lead Consultant Psychologist or Head of Service
6. To maintain professional registration with the HCPC and to adhere to HCPC standards of proficiency. To adhere to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics as set out by the HCPC.
7. To be competent and make full use of IT packages available within the work area, for example, Microsoft Office, E-mail, Internet and statistical package
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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