Job summary
This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 22.5 hours per week.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the complex emotional needs service that is established in Gloucestershire. The service sets out to improve responding where ever people present, using trauma informed awareness and a commitment to reducing re-traumatisation across systems.
This post is a newly developed post that will be dedicated to leading the FERN - Frequent engagement response network, a service specifically set up to support emergency services and to help individuals experiencing distress to co-create person centred response plans drawing on psychological formulation.
The post holder will be working with lived experience practitioners, assistant psychologists, specialist practitioners, multi-agency safeguarding leads and emergency services to coordinate appropriate responses and to ensure that the clients voice is at the centre of any decision making. Additionally, the post holder will coordinate monthly multi-agency clinical concerns meetings where referrals are discussed and decisions made.
Main duties of the job
- To take an Applied Psychologist stance to working with individuals, teams and organisations in order to inform psychological ways of working within and across services.
- To directly provide and co-ordinate highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention services to individuals/ groups/organisations, using a variety of applied psychology models.
- To provide clinical supervision for pre-qualified psychology staff according to experience and general/specialist psychological model. To provide placements and supervision to Doctoral Clinical Psychology trainees and other psychological practitioners in training.
- To participate in relevant research and audit activity andto utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development
- To take an active role in promoting psychologically informed assessments through systemic interventions supporting a wide range of partner agencies along with friends, families and accommodation-based staff.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To carry a caseload and provide a direct service for psychological issues which demand more than a standard therapeutic approach (e.g. basic CBT may have been tried unsuccessfully, methods may need significant adaptation, particular challenges exist in maintaining a therapeutic relationship).
To draw appropriately from a range of assessment tools and methodologies. To interpret and integrate complex data and information from a variety of sources to develop psychological formulations and identify the most relevant intervention strategy. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
In partnership with the Lead Psychologist for CEN, leads on day to delivery of a psychological service within the team.
Manage own time and workload.
Accountable for own professional actions guided by the Professions standards including the BPS Code of Conduct, Ethics Guidelines for Chartered Psychologists.
Exercises own expert clinical judgement in all aspects of work including where there is insufficient or conflicting data.
Uses professional skills and knowledge including research, service evaluation and audit to suggest ways to improve and develop practice.
Ensures reflective scientist-practitioner approach in own practice and that of supervisees.
To ensure that other staff, multidisciplinary teams and managers across the range of services have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through provision of specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation and the sharing of psychological research and theory.
To provide training to others as relevant to service need.
To provide training on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course as agreed.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Job description
Job responsibilities
To carry a caseload and provide a direct service for psychological issues which demand more than a standard therapeutic approach (e.g. basic CBT may have been tried unsuccessfully, methods may need significant adaptation, particular challenges exist in maintaining a therapeutic relationship).
To draw appropriately from a range of assessment tools and methodologies. To interpret and integrate complex data and information from a variety of sources to develop psychological formulations and identify the most relevant intervention strategy. To monitor and evaluate progress, refining formulations and interventions as necessary. To assess and manage risk within an appropriate psychological framework.
In partnership with the Lead Psychologist for CEN, leads on day to delivery of a psychological service within the team.
Manage own time and workload.
Accountable for own professional actions guided by the Professions standards including the BPS Code of Conduct, Ethics Guidelines for Chartered Psychologists.
Exercises own expert clinical judgement in all aspects of work including where there is insufficient or conflicting data.
Uses professional skills and knowledge including research, service evaluation and audit to suggest ways to improve and develop practice.
Ensures reflective scientist-practitioner approach in own practice and that of supervisees.
To ensure that other staff, multidisciplinary teams and managers across the range of services have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients of the service, through provision of specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation and the sharing of psychological research and theory.
To provide training to others as relevant to service need.
To provide training on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate Course as agreed.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Person Specification
practicality
Essential
- Driving licence and use of car to get around county efficiently with occasional need to drive patients
Desirable
- Ability to adapt style and/or assessment and intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex clients / situations.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, as accredited by the B.P.S.
Desirable
- Significant experience working at highly specialist level in a directly relevant area. Includes successful working in a multi-disciplinary context and having held responsibility for a largely autonomous and systematic service provision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical aggression
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS. Well organised and an effective team player
Desirable
- Care coordination or equivalent role with people with highly complex psychological needs
Experience
Essential
- Willingness to work in non clinical settings including people's homes, community settings and potentially in ED and at Custody
- Experience of working in non clinical settings to deliver psychological interventions
Person Specification
practicality
Essential
- Driving licence and use of car to get around county efficiently with occasional need to drive patients
Desirable
- Ability to adapt style and/or assessment and intervention strategies to meet the challenges of complex clients / situations.
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate doctoral level training in Clinical or Counselling Psychology, as accredited by the B.P.S.
Desirable
- Significant experience working at highly specialist level in a directly relevant area. Includes successful working in a multi-disciplinary context and having held responsibility for a largely autonomous and systematic service provision
Experience
Essential
- Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical aggression
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS. Well organised and an effective team player
Desirable
- Care coordination or equivalent role with people with highly complex psychological needs
Experience
Essential
- Willingness to work in non clinical settings including people's homes, community settings and potentially in ED and at Custody
- Experience of working in non clinical settings to deliver psychological interventions
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).
