Job summary
Learning Disability and Autism Directorate - Band 8a Senior Applied Psychologist working within South Warwickshire Community Learning Disability Team.
This is a 30 hour a week substantive post.
Would you like to work in a service where Psychologists are highly valued?
Do you want a role that is varied and with excellent team working?
Are you looking for a job that can give you a diverse range of opportunities to learn and develop?
Would you like to be offered excellent support and supervision?
We are looking to employ a Senior Clinical Psychologist to join our well-established community learning disability team in South Warwickshire. The psychological services team sits within the wider multidisciplinary team and includes Clinical and Counselling Psychologists, as well as an Art Therapists. There is strong multi-disciplinary working within the service, and the contribution of psychological services staff is highly valued. The successful applicant will receive excellent support and regular, good quality supervision and opportunities for continuing professional development. We have well-established links with the Coventry and Warwick Doctoral Training courses in Clinical Psychology, providing core placements, teaching sessions and supervising doctoral research projects. We are also developing further research links with Warwick University and there will be a variety of opportunities to maintain and develop your research skills.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide input to this Community Learning Disability Team in the form of specialist assessments and psychological interventions, team formulation, consultation, training and supervision of other qualified staff. Clinical work will often involve working with the wider system around a client through supporting families, carers and other agencies in their psychological understanding. We also offer systemic and consultancy working in the form of group work and specialist team work.
This community post will require travel across the Trust so car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport arrangements will be required to enable you to undertake the job. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check.
About us
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
staff networks and support groups
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.
- To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
- To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form in order to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients, both within and outside the Trust.
- To contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing and participating in audit, research and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.
- To provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues.
- To provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, using complex psychological data gained from a variety of sources.
- To ensure the systematic provision of psychological services, including the responsibility to prioritise work appropriately.
- To communicate assessment results, formulations, outcome data, and other complex and sensitive information orally and in written form in order to support the work of multidisciplinary colleagues.
- To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, consultation and supervision to other professionals and staff contributing to the formulation, diagnosis, treatment plans and management of clients, both within and outside the Trust.
- To contribute to the development of services, reviewing service outcomes, designing and participating in audit, research and clinical governance initiatives, and working cooperatively with colleagues to achieve service goals and maximise service effectiveness. This will involve communication with a wide range of clinical and managerial colleagues, within and outside the Trust.
- To provide supervision to less senior qualified psychology staff, assistant psychologists, volunteers and other colleagues.
- To provide clinical placements to doctoral level trainee psychologists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Doctoral level training in applied Psychology ( or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK) as approved by the HCPC.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience of working with a range of clients presenting with a range of clinical severity.
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of working with community Learning Disability teams and or in-patient settings.
Knowledge and skills.
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group and skills in applying this knowledge.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
- Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Post Graduate Doctoral level training in applied Psychology ( or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or outside the UK) as approved by the HCPC.
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
Experience
Essential
- Clinical experience of working with a range of clients presenting with a range of clinical severity.
- Experience of tailoring psychological assessment and intervention to individual needs.
- Experience of working with community Learning Disability teams and or in-patient settings.
Knowledge and skills.
Essential
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methods and therapeutic approaches in relation to the client group and skills in applying this knowledge.
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group.
- Knowledge of research and audit methodology suitable to the role.
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).
