Job summary
Band 7 - 8a Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist or psychotherapist Development Post - Bucks Community Learning Disabilities Health Team
1 x Permanent Position
3rd Year Trainees and Part time applicants will be considered.
Base: High Wycombe / Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: Agenda for Change Band 7 / 8a
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and suitably qualified HCPC Registered Clinical / Practitioner Psychologist or psychotherapist to work in our Learning Disabilities Team in Bucks. The team currently consists of two part time Consultant Clinical Psychologists (1.2 WTE), a Part Time Principal Clinical Psychologist, two Senior Clinical Psychologists, a part time Psychotherapist, one Assistant Psychologist and an Honorary Assistant in Psychology, all committed to offering an excellent service to the adults with Learning Disabilities with whom we work, as well as their families and carers.
Our psychology services offer Behavioural, Psychodynamic and Systemic approaches and team members also have expertise in using adapted CBT, CAT, EMDR, AMBIT and VIG.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work within the wider MDT Community LD Health Team to provide psychological input to adults with learning disabilities facing situations at different levels of complexity.
This includes working jointly with our Intensive Support Team for service users at risk of exclusion or of inappropriate hospital admission. It can also include in-reach input to services users from the community who require an inpatient admission for assessment and treatment of their mental health or behaviours of concern.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a qualified clinical psychology or psychotherapy service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the Community. To provide specialist assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychological services colleagues and other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To use research skills for audit, service development and research. To contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide a qualified clinical psychology or psychotherapy service to adults with learning disabilities and service providers and carers within the Community. To provide specialist assessment and interventions, as well as offering advice and consultation on psychological care to non-psychological services colleagues and other non-professional carers. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the teams policies and procedures. To use research skills for audit, service development and research. To contribute to identifying key areas and priorities for psychological services.
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION
Essential
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent. or Post graduate qualification in Psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy or systemic therapy Registered as a clinical psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). or Registered with relevant professional body for example UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
Desirable
- Additional post graduate training or qualification in Psychotherapy or systemic therapy.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, presenting problems that reflect a 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 working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Direct experience of using therapy with people with disabilities. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of psychological services in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex assessment, therapy or intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological services.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.) High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
Person Specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION
Essential
- Doctoral level qualification in clinical psychology or equivalent. or Post graduate qualification in Psychotherapy, psychodynamic therapy or systemic therapy Registered as a clinical psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). or Registered with relevant professional body for example UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) or British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC)
Desirable
- Additional post graduate training or qualification in Psychotherapy or systemic therapy.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of specialist assessment and therapy with service users across a range of care settings. Experience of working with a wide variety of service user groups, presenting problems that reflect a 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 working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Direct experience of using therapy with people with disabilities. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision. Experience of the application of psychological services in different cultural contexts.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex assessment, therapy or intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in communicating effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to service users, their families, carers and other professional colleagues, both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups. Knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychological services.
Desirable
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in the specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.) High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies. Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.
Other
Essential
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The team has Bases in High Wycombe and Aylesbury
Unit 7, Anglo Office Park, Lincoln Road
High Wycombe
HP12 3RH
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
