Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist

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Job summary

Pennine West Home Treatment Team

This is an exciting and new opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist or Psychological Therapist (CAT or CBT trained and accredited) to join the Pennine West Home Treatment with opportunities to also undertake some work in other parts of our urgent care pathway such as the Initial Response Service and Street Triage Teams.

The Home Treatment Team offer support to service users, and their families/carers, who are suffering from mental health concerns that would otherwise require admission to an acute in patient environment. There is a strong focus on a recovery model and effective risk management to provide quality care in a community setting.

The Home Treatment Team are always striving towards excellence in service delivery and ensuring that the Trust values are at the centre of this. We are continuing to work with and develop close partnerships with our fellow LSCFT Teams, as well as external third party providers in supporting the service user recovery.

The psychology role within Home Treatment Team and the Initial Response Service is well established and very much valued. You would be joining busy, thriving and supportive services with good relationships between psychology and the management teams as well as the mutli-disciplinary teams.

As the band 8a psychologist/psychological therapist in the team you would be a member of the senior leadership team and have an empowered and positive voice to shape service change and transformation.

Main duties of the job

The role offers great opportunities for innovation and creativity in terms of the interventions that can be offered. We are currently pilotin the delivery of a crisis skills workshop across the urgent care pathway and are keen to increase access to other brief group psychological interventions to our service users. The teams value a psychological perspective and are very much open to joint care planning and risk management planning when the need arises, especially for those cases that are complex.

To provide a qualified psychological therapy (including either Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - CBT or Cognitive Analytic Therapy - CAT) service to patients of the nominated team(s) including the provision of enhanced specialist psychological assessment and therapy, working within the policies, procedures and protocols applicable to the service.

To offer advice and consultation on patients' psychological care to psychology and non-psychology colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures. To develop advanced skills in consultancy by implementing formal systems of consultancy within the nominated team(s), as directed and guided by your Locality Professional Lead and his/her deputies.

To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research within the area in which the post holder works.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Date posted

31 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-PEN592-EB-B

Job locations

Daisyfield Mill

Blackburn

BB1 3BL

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Core professional qualification in a relevant field e.g. Nursing to degree level (as recognized by BABCP or ACAT)
Formal training in supervision of other psychological Therapists.
Either Recognised qualification in CBT to post graduate level And BABCP Accreditation (either full or provisional, but not simply 'membership')
Or Full CAT Practitioner Training And ACAT registration

Knowledge

Essential

Further advanced and highly specialised knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the accrediting body.
Knowledge of legislation relevant to the patient group.

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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.
Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Core professional qualification in a relevant field e.g. Nursing to degree level (as recognized by BABCP or ACAT)
Formal training in supervision of other psychological Therapists.
Either Recognised qualification in CBT to post graduate level And BABCP Accreditation (either full or provisional, but not simply 'membership')
Or Full CAT Practitioner Training And ACAT registration

Knowledge

Essential

Further advanced and highly specialised knowledge relevant to this post equivalent to a post-graduate diploma (in addition to entry level qualification)
Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the accrediting body.
Knowledge of legislation relevant to the patient group.

Experience

Essential

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of patient 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.
Demonstrable evidence of a continuing commitment to developing expertise in psychological assessment and intervention

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Daisyfield Mill

Blackburn

BB1 3BL

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Daisyfield Mill

Blackburn

BB1 3BL

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)