Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the
Inpatient Psychology Service at Langdon Hospital, for an appropriately
qualified Band 7 practitioner psychologist. A trainee who is due to qualify
within 6 months of the application will also be considered. You will work as
part of an innovative psychology team, which provides specialist psychological
work to patients at Langdon Hospital, with the opportunity to work across the
directorate.
The role will sit within a multi- disciplinary team on one of the 5 wards across the Medium and Low Secure estate.
Forensic mental health settings provide an enviable clinical environment in
which to pursue clinical interests and develop specialism in areas such as risk
assessment, offence focused work, individual or group work, trauma, psychosis,
personality and relational difficulties, as well as cognitive and developmental
difficulties. The work can involve a
range of assessment and therapeutic approaches, modalities and timeframes.
Main duties of the job
- Providing a Psychology
service to people who are resident
at Langdon Hospital.
- 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
- Carrying a specialist caseload of
clients, and providing advice and consultancy to patients, carers and professionals.
- To provide clinical supervision and
consultation to the wider multi-disciplinary teams in the locality as part of
integrated mental health team working.
- 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.
- To work
autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the
systematic governance of psychological practice within the service / local
team.
- 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 be fully
registered with the Health Professions Council as a condition of employment.
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
Communication and working relationship skills
- 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 Secure services and in DPT to foster a positive approach to
the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective
negotiation.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
- 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 Lead, General Manager, Practice and
Strategic Development Leads as by undertaking service development and
redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team
Planning and Organisational Skills
- 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 multiprofessional
planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
Responsibility for patient 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.
- Responsibility
for policy and service development implementation
- 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
-
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions,
acting within Devon Partnership NHS Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- To interpret and develop policies and
procedures for the provision of psychology services.
- Provide clinical leadership in the continual development and
provision of excellence across the service.
- Carry out duties in relation to local, regional and national
initiatives in developing services.
- Work alongside other clinicians in the
team and within other appropriate agencies, as well as with service users,
families and carers, to initiate and implement service developments.
- Responsible for identifying and proposing strategic service
improvements.
- Contribute to operational planning and advise senior colleagues
on those aspects of the service that may need addressing at a strategic level.
- Involvement in the development of local systems and process that
ensure the implementation of Trust policies.
- Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to
ensure the quality of the service provided; this will include ensuring
performance targets are met to provide high quality care.
- Hold responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective
recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest
performance of the team, with responsibility for systematic governance of the
clinical practice of the team and implementation of the organisations
clinical governance agenda.
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Ensure care is provided in
the most cost-effective and high quality manner and identify unmet needs.
- Responsible for the safe
use and security of any equipment used in accordance with all relevant Trust
policies and procedures
- Exercise responsibility
for managing resources available to the service, both in terms of staff and
materials employed in assessment and treatment through the care pathway
- Authorise staff travel
expenses, and payments for equipment and other resources within the
designated service.
Responsibility for information resources and
admin 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.
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 psychological expertise and adviceguidance
and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues,
other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communication and working relationship skills
- 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 Secure services and in DPT to foster a positive approach to
the integrated mental health and wellbeing service and to enable effective
negotiation.
Analytical and Judgemental Skills
- 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 Lead, General Manager, Practice and
Strategic Development Leads as by undertaking service development and
redesign projects and coordinating the resulting work within the team
Planning and Organisational Skills
- 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 multiprofessional
planning, development and marketing of mental health and wellbeing services.
Responsibility for patient 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.
- Responsibility
for policy and service development implementation
- 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
-
The post holder is accountable for their own professional actions,
acting within Devon Partnership NHS Trust policies and procedures and
Professional Practice Guidelines.
- To interpret and develop policies and
procedures for the provision of psychology services.
- Provide clinical leadership in the continual development and
provision of excellence across the service.
- Carry out duties in relation to local, regional and national
initiatives in developing services.
- Work alongside other clinicians in the
team and within other appropriate agencies, as well as with service users,
families and carers, to initiate and implement service developments.
- Responsible for identifying and proposing strategic service
improvements.
- Contribute to operational planning and advise senior colleagues
on those aspects of the service that may need addressing at a strategic level.
- Involvement in the development of local systems and process that
ensure the implementation of Trust policies.
- Contribute to clinical governance arrangements in order to
ensure the quality of the service provided; this will include ensuring
performance targets are met to provide high quality care.
- Hold responsibility for implementing clear systems for effective
recruitment, professional appraisal and for facilitating the highest
performance of the team, with responsibility for systematic governance of the
clinical practice of the team and implementation of the organisations
clinical governance agenda.
Responsibility for Human Resources
- Ensure care is provided in
the most cost-effective and high quality manner and identify unmet needs.
- Responsible for the safe
use and security of any equipment used in accordance with all relevant Trust
policies and procedures
- Exercise responsibility
for managing resources available to the service, both in terms of staff and
materials employed in assessment and treatment through the care pathway
- Authorise staff travel
expenses, and payments for equipment and other resources within the
designated service.
Responsibility for information resources and
admin 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.
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 psychological expertise and adviceguidance
and consultation on psychological aspects of patient care to colleagues,
other service providers, patients, supporters and families.
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.
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of secure services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with severe and complex mental health problems.
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- 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.
Desirable
- Project management skills / experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
- Experience of working under supervision in adult mental health contexts
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
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
- Experience of working in a forensic setting
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Forensic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society and Registered with HCPC.
Desirable
- Further training or experience in clinical specialism
- Further training in related area
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy
- IT Skills
Person Specification
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge and familiarity of secure services; and of the services in the NHS where psychology and psychological therapies is commonly applied.
- An understanding of providing psychological therapy for service users presenting with severe and complex mental health problems.
- Excellent verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills
- Ability to integrate complex data; make highly skilled evaluations and decisions; and take a long term perspective.
- Proven organisational, planning and time management skills
- 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.
Desirable
- Project management skills / experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience, and/or training in diversity awareness and social inequality
- Experience of working under supervision in adult mental health contexts
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary team
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
- Experience of working in a forensic setting
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Forensic Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (D.Clin.Psychol. or equivalent) and eligible for Chartered Psychologist Status in the British Psychological Society and Registered with HCPC.
Desirable
- Further training or experience in clinical specialism
- Further training in related area
- Further training in at least one (other) psychological therapy
- IT Skills
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).
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