Job summary
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a psychologist or psychological therapist to join our skilled South Devon Community Adult Mental Health Teams. This advert is for two full-time opportunities that will be offered as below:
1. One full-time permanent post with the Baywide/Riviera Core Mental Health Team with base at the Health and Wellbeing Hub (Torbay Hospital).
2. One full-time permanent post with the South Hams and West Devon Core Mental Health Teams. This post can be offered as one full-time position or two posts as below:
0.6 wte (3 days) with the West Devon Core Mental Health Team (Tavistock and Ivybridge bases - required to work Wednesdays with base in Tavistock)
0.4 wte (2 days) with the South Hams Core Mental Health Team (Totnes base)
We are a diverse and innovative team of multidisciplinary professional colleagues. The role will include provision of psychological assessments, formulations and psychological therapies for adults presenting with a broad range of mental health needs.
The role may involve supporting the psychologically informed practice of multidisciplinary colleagues within the community team through offering supervision, advice and consultation, reflective practice, training and joint working.
The post is open to clinical or counselling psychologists, and psychotherapists or psychological therapists who are registered with an appropriate professional regulatory body and who are trained at masters level or higher.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The principal purpose of the job is to improve
the psychological health & wellbeing of adults with complex and severe mental health difficulties.
Main duties include:
1. Providing psychological therapy interventions to people as a key component of services provided by Devon
Partnership Trust.
2. Providing local clinical leadership,
co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by or
attached to the service, under the general direction and supervision of the
Professional Lead.
3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients,
and providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and
professionals.
4. The post holder will be supported by senior
colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be expected to
make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop
their clinical skills with this client group.
5. To work autonomously within professional
guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of
psychological practice within the service / local team.
6. The post holder will receive regular
professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to
Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society
or appropriate designated Professional Body. Observe, and abide by all relevant
Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise including the British Psychological
Society.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post-holders specialist field of practice. This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1. Providing a Clinical/Counselling Psychology or Psychotherapy service to peoplereferred to the service as a key component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2. Providing local clinical leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology service, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional Lead
3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.
4. To provide clinical supervision and consultation to the wider community mental health teams in the locality as part of integrated mental health team working.
5. The post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
6. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service / local team.
7. The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated Professional Body. Observe, and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment.
Communication and Working Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to day basis.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology/psychological therapy expertise and advice.
- To provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants &/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with professional guidelines
Information Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation
- As a clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation of professional and Trustguidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager.
- To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology/psychotherapy expertise and advice guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Review of this Job Description
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing service needs. This job description is to be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description
The principal purpose of the job is to improve the psychological health & wellbeing of people within the post-holders specialist field of practice. This will be achieved in this post through undertaking the following areas of responsibility:
1. Providing a Clinical/Counselling Psychology or Psychotherapy service to peoplereferred to the service as a key component of services provided by Devon Partnership Trust
2. Providing local clinical leadership, co-ordination and supervision for trainees and volunteers employed by or attached to the psychology service, under the general direction and supervision of the Professional Lead
3. Carrying a specialist caseload of clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients, family members, carers and professionals.
4. To provide clinical supervision and consultation to the wider community mental health teams in the locality as part of integrated mental health team working.
5. The post holder will be supported by senior colleagues within their specialist field. The post holder will be expected to make good use of the expertise of others within the service to further develop their clinical skills with this client group.
6. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service / local team.
7. The post holder will receive regular professional and clinical supervision in accordance to Trust policy and to Professional Practice Guidelines set out by the British Psychological Society or appropriate designated Professional Body. Observe, and abide by all relevant Professional Codes of Conduct and Practise including the British Psychological Society. The post holder will be fully registered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment.
Communication and Working Relationships
- Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or highly emotionally disturbed.
- Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with colleagues in the multi-professional integrated mental health and wellbeing service on a day to day basis.
- Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
- Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers across the Psychology and Therapy service and in DPT to foster a positive approach to the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective negotiation.
Planning and Organisation
- The service: To plan and prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals and service research and development activities.
- To contribute to the planning and organising of the psychology and therapy services within the locality area and to contribute to the development and improvement of provision of psychological services within services to best meet the organisations strategy and priorities.
- The multidisciplinary service: To provide psychology/therapy knowledge to the multi-professional planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
- Responsibility for Judgement and Analysis
- To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology/psychological therapy expertise and advice.
- To provide psychological therapies/other therapies, developing specialist psychological formulations and assessments of clients, formulating plans for their psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups.
- To support the Professional Head, General Manager, Practice and Strategic Development Leads and Professional Leads by undertaking service development and redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team.
Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy
- Assessment & intervention: To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about assessment, treatment and discharge, including the management of risk. To formulate plans for psychological treatment and implementing specialist psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups and to demonstrate awareness of diversity issues.
- Consultation & guidance: To provide advice, guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Policy, Service, Research, Innovation and Improvement
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines.
- Policy & service: To support proposed changes for policy and for service development.
Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources
- Careful use of equipment.
Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership and Management
- Leadership & supervision: To supervise the work of assistants &/or trainees as required. To provide supervision & consultancy to health and social care colleagues.
- To support placements for trainee staff in line with professional guidelines
Information Resources and Administrative Duties
- To maintain accurate records, compliant with Trust Practice Standards.
- To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e-mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication.
Responsibility for Research and Development
- To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work within the PPT and local mental health services.
- To support project work including specific areas of audit, research or service evaluation
- As a clinician to be responsible for collecting clinical practice and outcome data that contributes to building practice based evidence and service evaluation.
Freedom to Act
- The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines
- To work autonomously within clinical professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the governance of psychological practice within the locality/specialty. Interpretation of professional and Trustguidelines, and implementing policies in conjunction with peers, Head of Profession and General Manager.
- To provide specialist clinical/counselling psychology/psychotherapy expertise and advice guidance and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues, other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
Any Other Specific Tasks Required
- To ensure all clinical care and treatment provided by psychologists/therapists is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
- To ensure that all relevant staff groups continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to their clinical work.
Review of this Job Description
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing service needs. This job description is to be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent), eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist/Psychological Therapist
- Registration with HCPC/UKCP/Other Specialist regulatory body.
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality Experience gained during supervised training of working in adult mental health or psychology or psychological therapies services.
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge: Broad knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- Communication and Working Relationship Skills: Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Analytical & Judgemental Skills: Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Planning & Organisational Skills: Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Physical Skills: Presentable Clear telephone voice Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people.
- Other: Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams. Ability to work as a member of a clinical team. Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
- Travel: Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role
Desirable
- Project management skills / experience.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Clinical Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent), eligible for Chartered Clinical Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society or Counselling Psychologist or Psychotherapist/Psychological Therapist
- Registration with HCPC/UKCP/Other Specialist regulatory body.
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality Experience gained during supervised training of working in adult mental health or psychology or psychological therapies services.
Desirable
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a wide range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings. Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge: Broad knowledge and familiarity of specialist services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- Communication and Working Relationship Skills: Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Analytical & Judgemental Skills: Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Planning & Organisational Skills: Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- Physical Skills: Presentable Clear telephone voice Calm, methodical approach, friendly but concise Good communication skills when presenting / facilitating to varying groups of people.
- Other: Ability to work independently and use initiative within a service consisting of a network of teams. Ability to work as a member of a clinical team. Ability to tolerate ambiguity, and maintain own morale and motivation in challenging service delivery contexts.
- Travel: Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the role
Desirable
- Project management skills / experience.
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).
