Job summary
Are you interested in helping to improve access to psychological therapies?
Would you like to help improve health and social outcomes for individuals, their families and communities?
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) have several opportunities for highly motivated Practitioner Psychologists to join our service as Clinical Leads for our Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Teams in the West Midlands and South East of England.
Working as part of a wider Health and Justice Directorate our MHTR Teams provide psychological assessments and short term psychological interventions with the aim of addressing common mental health problems such as anxiety and depression, thereby improving health and social outcomes for the individual, their family and the wider community.
As the Clinical Lead for the pathway you will have responsibility for the supervision and management of a team of Assistant Psychologists and other practitioners providing assessments and psychological interventions for people referred to the service. You will also have the opportunity to carry a small clinical case load and contribute to the development of the national MHTR programme.
Main duties of the job
You will
o Be responsible for the day to day management of the MHTR Team
o Have knowledge of community mental health services and experience of providing clinical leadership within a multi-disciplinary team
o Support the psychological assessment of individuals referred to the service
o Supervise and support the assessment, formulation and treatment interventions provided by Assistant Psychologists and other professional colleagues where appropriate
o Deliver training relating to MHTR's to colleagues working in partner organisations
o Liaise with Commissioners and partnership organisations
o Contribute to the development of local and national policy
o Be able to work flexibly to suit your personal circumstances
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents below.
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 psychologist (clinical/counselling psychologist).
- Accredited in other therapeutic modalities e.g. CBT, CAT, EMDR, DBT
- Completion of supervisor training (e.g. STARS).
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within a secondary mental health team, particularly with people with psychosis
- Skilled in collaborative assessment, formulation and working alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines.
- 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 including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Skilled at providing support to team members and to assist in the development of the team's psychological resilience.
- Good standard of IT and keyboard skills required for inputting onto Clinical systems - RIO
Desirable
- Experience in collective leadership
- Experience in recruitment and service development
- Experience in managing other psychological therapist colleagues (e.g. completing PDC, CPD)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- A clear grasp of the concept of mental health recovery
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Ability to meet the travelling requirements of the job
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for working with people experiencing complex mental health problems, including psychosis and their families and carers, with a focus on recovery
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours in order to facilitate evening appointments for families.
- Effective self/time management.
- Flexible approach to meeting the needs of the service
- Demonstrate a commitment to personal development
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of clinical/managerial supervision
- Evidence of communication and organisational skills
- A desire to champion and enable mental health recovery
- Able to demonstrate a positive and non-judgemental attitude towards service users and their family and carers.
- Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary environment, respect others and to contain the complex demands and conflicts that this can engender.
- Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of service users.
- Ability to contain the emotional stress of working with clients who are extremely distressed or volatile.
- Ability to demonstrate resilience and to effectively manage own time and resources.
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 psychologist (clinical/counselling psychologist).
- Accredited in other therapeutic modalities e.g. CBT, CAT, EMDR, DBT
- Completion of supervisor training (e.g. STARS).
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by relevant professional body
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist within a secondary mental health team, particularly with people with psychosis
- Skilled in collaborative assessment, formulation and working alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines.
- 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 including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings 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 clients' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Skilled at providing support to team members and to assist in the development of the team's psychological resilience.
- Good standard of IT and keyboard skills required for inputting onto Clinical systems - RIO
Desirable
- Experience in collective leadership
- Experience in recruitment and service development
- Experience in managing other psychological therapist colleagues (e.g. completing PDC, CPD)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
- Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
- A clear grasp of the concept of mental health recovery
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Ability to meet the travelling requirements of the job
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for working with people experiencing complex mental health problems, including psychosis and their families and carers, with a focus on recovery
- Ability and willingness to work flexible hours in order to facilitate evening appointments for families.
- Effective self/time management.
- Flexible approach to meeting the needs of the service
- Demonstrate a commitment to personal development
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of clinical/managerial supervision
- Evidence of communication and organisational skills
- A desire to champion and enable mental health recovery
- Able to demonstrate a positive and non-judgemental attitude towards service users and their family and carers.
- Ability to work constructively in a multidisciplinary environment, respect others and to contain the complex demands and conflicts that this can engender.
- Ability to develop productive therapeutic relationships with a range of service users.
- Ability to contain the emotional stress of working with clients who are extremely distressed or volatile.
- Ability to demonstrate resilience and to effectively manage own time and resources.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
