Job summary
Following changes to the leadership and staffing structure with Op Courage Midlands we are excited to be looking to for a Clinical Psychologist to join our multi-disciplinary team. Op Courage is a NHS mental health specialist service designed to help serving personnel due to leave the military, reservists, armed forces veteran's and their families.
Anyone can be affected by mental ill health, but armed forces veterans may have seen and experienced things that few others - thankfully - will. That can create a special set of challenges which working with military charities helps to overcome and that it what is at the heart of Op Courage - ensuring that the NHS is a National Hero Service. Over the last 5 years the National Health Service has expanded mental health services as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
The role of the team is to support veterans with their mental wellbeing as well as to navigate the NHS so that the individual can access the service that will best meet their needs. We do this via a military-sensitive and holistic assessment. Practitioners in the team will develop care plans based on this assessment and will liaise with other organisations and military charities in the development and implementation of the care plan.
This is a region wide post covering the East Midlands, including Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.
Main duties of the job
To work clinically, offering assessment and review within the Urgent pathway caseload of patients as well as completing and supporting assessments within the Non Urgent pathway.
To meet appropriate standards of practice in the quality and timeliness of the service provided. The standards of practice will include meeting the standards defined by the British Psychological Society (including the Division of Clinical Psychology and the Division of Counselling Psychology where relevant) and Lincolnshire NHS Partnership Foundation Trust.
To formulate and implement plans for the psychological treatment and/or management of patient's mental health and the presenting problem(s), based upon the appropriate theoretical and conceptual framework of the patient's problems, via the employment of methods based upon evidence based practice and efficacy.
To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for patients, carers, families and groups. Adjusting and refining psychological formulations and drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives and different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patient's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
To chair clinical meetings, developing knowledge and clinical skills of the practitioners whilst working collaboratively with Op Courage and system partners.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Chartered Psychologist Status
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, as a professional care co-ordinator and within the context of multidisciplinary teams
Desirable
- oExperience of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, Neuropsychology, learning disability
- Research, evaluation and audit skills
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions
- Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders
- Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels. Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual client needs and abilities
- Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with service users
- Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to service users, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust
- Accurate keyboard skills
- The ability to frequently sit in a restricted position for long periods during appointments driving between work bases, including at night and in hazardous driving conditions and working at a computer
- The ability to maintain prolonged and intense concentration and to multi-task during client meetings, and when compiling reports
- Ability to cope with highly distressing or very emotional circumstances relating to clinical cases
- The ability to deal with aggressive and challenging behaviour and verbal aggression
- Willingness to work in diverse settings including hospitals, clinics, and clients' homes
- Willingness to work in conditions where there may be exposure to cigarette smoke and unsanitary conditions
- Ability to contain and deal with organisational stress
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing Professional development
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Honours degree in Psychology
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical or counselling psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and life-span developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Chartered Psychologist Status
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client's psychological care and treatment, as a professional care co-ordinator and within the context of multidisciplinary teams
Desirable
- oExperience of working in other related fields, CMHT, CAMHS, Neuropsychology, learning disability
- Research, evaluation and audit skills
Skills
Essential
- Knowledge and skill in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment interventions
- Knowledge and skill in the delivery of theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skill in the practice of a wide range of psychological interventions in the treatment of patients with a broad range of mental health problems, such as PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, eating disorders
- Ability to transfer complex concepts to individual levels. Ability to transfer problem solving, communication and personal development skills to individual client needs and abilities
- Ability to develop excellent therapeutic relationship with service users
- Good interpersonal skills in working with interdisciplinary teams
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, highly clinical and sensitive information to service users, medical professionals, families, carers and other professionals within and outside the NHS Trust
- Accurate keyboard skills
- The ability to frequently sit in a restricted position for long periods during appointments driving between work bases, including at night and in hazardous driving conditions and working at a computer
- The ability to maintain prolonged and intense concentration and to multi-task during client meetings, and when compiling reports
- Ability to cope with highly distressing or very emotional circumstances relating to clinical cases
- The ability to deal with aggressive and challenging behaviour and verbal aggression
- Willingness to work in diverse settings including hospitals, clinics, and clients' homes
- Willingness to work in conditions where there may be exposure to cigarette smoke and unsanitary conditions
- Ability to contain and deal with organisational stress
Desirable
- Evidence of continuing Professional development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
