Tutor and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy service lead
This job is now closed
Job summary
The University of Hull, Faculty of Health Sciences has an established and excellent reputation locally, nationally and internationally for its high-quality undergraduate, postgraduate and professional educational provision and has a growing reputation for its research. The School of Psychology and Social Work brings together Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapists, Social Workers and Mental Health Nurses in a positive and open culture of learning and exchange. The Clinical Psychology Doctorate (ClinPsyD) is a well-established Post Graduate Research programme, of three years duration, which runs in conjunction with the psychology undergraduate programmes at the University of Hull and the University of York to form a 6-year integrated training course
Main duties of the job
The standard academic role at the University includes a combination of teaching, research, scholarship, and administration. While all roles will combine these areas of work, the relative weight of each will vary from level to level and over time for individual role holders. This role in particular is unique in that the primary role involves clinical practice and supervision within the University setting
About us
The ClinPsyD Programme has a national reputation for high quality training and innovation and has received positive reports from external examiners and visiting professional accreditation teams. The Clinical Psychology Doctorate programme will have an intake of 26 postgraduate clinical psychology trainees, for the 2023-2024 academic year. The number of trainees across all 3 years of the programme for the 2023-2024 academic year will be 75. The programme is organised in three sections: clinical, research and academic.
Details
Date posted
24 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£58,972 a year NHS agenda for change band 8b
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
3 years
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
N0083-UOH-TA-0107
Job locations
University Of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RX
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on the development and provision of highly specialist psychological assessments and treatment within the context of a CBT training service for University students, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
To coordinate the planning and organisation of the service in collaboration with student support services, the clinical psychology doctorate programme director and other members of the team, and other local organisations and agencies with whom the University connects in the provision of mental health support for students.
To lead on the provision of clinical support, supervision and consultation on students psychological health and wellbeing to non-psychologist colleagues and members of the student support team.
To utilise research skills for audit, evaluation and service development within the service area To effectively communicate highly complex information to service users regarding personal, psycho-social problems in a skilled empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a range of highly developed inter-personal skills in situations that can be highly emotional, and/or antagonistic and require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. impact of assessments/interventions.
To provide therapy impacting positively on service users (students) presenting with mental health difficulties.
To communicate psychological formulations, and integration of subsequent interventions within the multidisciplinary student support services team context.
To lead and present highly complex, sensitive and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
Ability to teach and train others using a variety of multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Professional networking locally and nationally and disseminate/share information with other colleagues.
Chairs/facilitates complex case reviews/meetings which may involve other agencies or specified organisational/professional forums.
To ensure effective communication at all levels: strategic, national, local, unit and partner organisations. Regularly demonstrate advanced skills in assessing the needs of service users based on the analysis of highly complex facts and situations. Interventions will consider both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
To demonstrate critical thinking and reasoning skills in clinical decision making.
Obtains, analyses and interprets assessment information to develop an appropriate psychological formulation and intervention plan.
To undertake risk assessment and management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To use sound judgement in assessing conflicting priorities and needs. Plans and co-ordinates complex activities for the purpose of service delivery and clinical care.
Formulation and adjustment of plans and strategy according to assessed service user needs.
Plans own clinical workload, implements therapeutic interventions to help service users with unstable and complex health care problems regain stability and restore health, in partnership with the service user and multi-professional health care/student support teams/agencies and other organisations.
Co-ordinates the professional element in planning and organisation of a specialist psychological service within the service area. Up to date competency in the use of psychometric test equipment
Advanced keyboard skills required
The job requires sitting in a restricted position for extended periods Provides a range of specialist clinical psychological advice, assessment and interventions.
Develops and maintains the service users control over decision making, assess the service users commitment to the jointly determined plan of treatment, and fosters personal responsibility for health.
Delivers psychological assessment, interventions and advice in a variety of settings that promote service user flexibility/choice, and which are sensitive to cultural preferences.
Responsible for ensuring trainee clinical psychologists within the service contribute to the effective implementation of programmes of treatment.
Responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service area.
To promote positive service user experience. To implement policy and practice procedures/protocols within own area of responsibility/specialism.
To contribute to service/practice development, implementation and change through deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To take a lead role in contributing/advising the psychological perspective in reviewing, developing and monitoring operational/clinical policy, proposing changes which may impact beyond own area of work.
Evaluates service user responses to the health care provided and the effectiveness of the care. Ensure clinical/operational managers are informed of the need for relevant test equipment.
Appropriate safe use, care and storage of equipment/physical resources. Accountable for the day to day clinical/professional supervision of staff.
Contributes to the training/teaching of trainee clinical psychologists.
Responsible for supporting the training/teaching of trainee psychologists on placement.
Contributes to the development of other psychologists. To provide accurate and timely information to inform University/service databases as required.
To be responsible for the safe storage and movement of test results.
To maintain up to date training and basic IT skills, and demonstrate a good working knowledge of confidentiality and data protection. To take a leading role in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through day to day practice, research, audit and benchmarking (Clinical Governance). Accountable for own professional actions, working within professional code of conduct, organisational policy and guidance
Provides highly specialist/advanced advice and high level of clinical competency in order to inform and enable other professionals to take clinical actions based on the analysis of the specific challenge/risk situation e.g. clinical risk management. Fulfil the employees duties described in the Universitys health and safety policies and co-operate with the health and safety arrangements in place within the school. May
be required to undertake specific health and safety roles on request e.g., Display screen equipment assessor, departmental safety officer, fire warden etc.
Show a commitment to diversity, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices this includes undertaking mandatory equality and diversity training.
Comply with University regulations, policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead on the development and provision of highly specialist psychological assessments and treatment within the context of a CBT training service for University students, ensuring the delivery of evidence based psychological interventions and practice.
To coordinate the planning and organisation of the service in collaboration with student support services, the clinical psychology doctorate programme director and other members of the team, and other local organisations and agencies with whom the University connects in the provision of mental health support for students.
To lead on the provision of clinical support, supervision and consultation on students psychological health and wellbeing to non-psychologist colleagues and members of the student support team.
To utilise research skills for audit, evaluation and service development within the service area To effectively communicate highly complex information to service users regarding personal, psycho-social problems in a skilled empathic and supportive way. This will involve using a range of highly developed inter-personal skills in situations that can be highly emotional, and/or antagonistic and require a satisfactory outcome, e.g. impact of assessments/interventions.
To provide therapy impacting positively on service users (students) presenting with mental health difficulties.
To communicate psychological formulations, and integration of subsequent interventions within the multidisciplinary student support services team context.
To lead and present highly complex, sensitive and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.
Ability to teach and train others using a variety of multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
Professional networking locally and nationally and disseminate/share information with other colleagues.
Chairs/facilitates complex case reviews/meetings which may involve other agencies or specified organisational/professional forums.
To ensure effective communication at all levels: strategic, national, local, unit and partner organisations. Regularly demonstrate advanced skills in assessing the needs of service users based on the analysis of highly complex facts and situations. Interventions will consider both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual.
To demonstrate critical thinking and reasoning skills in clinical decision making.
Obtains, analyses and interprets assessment information to develop an appropriate psychological formulation and intervention plan.
To undertake risk assessment and management for individual service users and to provide general advice to other professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
To use sound judgement in assessing conflicting priorities and needs. Plans and co-ordinates complex activities for the purpose of service delivery and clinical care.
Formulation and adjustment of plans and strategy according to assessed service user needs.
Plans own clinical workload, implements therapeutic interventions to help service users with unstable and complex health care problems regain stability and restore health, in partnership with the service user and multi-professional health care/student support teams/agencies and other organisations.
Co-ordinates the professional element in planning and organisation of a specialist psychological service within the service area. Up to date competency in the use of psychometric test equipment
Advanced keyboard skills required
The job requires sitting in a restricted position for extended periods Provides a range of specialist clinical psychological advice, assessment and interventions.
Develops and maintains the service users control over decision making, assess the service users commitment to the jointly determined plan of treatment, and fosters personal responsibility for health.
Delivers psychological assessment, interventions and advice in a variety of settings that promote service user flexibility/choice, and which are sensitive to cultural preferences.
Responsible for ensuring trainee clinical psychologists within the service contribute to the effective implementation of programmes of treatment.
Responsible for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service area.
To promote positive service user experience. To implement policy and practice procedures/protocols within own area of responsibility/specialism.
To contribute to service/practice development, implementation and change through deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
To take a lead role in contributing/advising the psychological perspective in reviewing, developing and monitoring operational/clinical policy, proposing changes which may impact beyond own area of work.
Evaluates service user responses to the health care provided and the effectiveness of the care. Ensure clinical/operational managers are informed of the need for relevant test equipment.
Appropriate safe use, care and storage of equipment/physical resources. Accountable for the day to day clinical/professional supervision of staff.
Contributes to the training/teaching of trainee clinical psychologists.
Responsible for supporting the training/teaching of trainee psychologists on placement.
Contributes to the development of other psychologists. To provide accurate and timely information to inform University/service databases as required.
To be responsible for the safe storage and movement of test results.
To maintain up to date training and basic IT skills, and demonstrate a good working knowledge of confidentiality and data protection. To take a leading role in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services operational policies, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high-quality care.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence-based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
To undertake appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through day to day practice, research, audit and benchmarking (Clinical Governance). Accountable for own professional actions, working within professional code of conduct, organisational policy and guidance
Provides highly specialist/advanced advice and high level of clinical competency in order to inform and enable other professionals to take clinical actions based on the analysis of the specific challenge/risk situation e.g. clinical risk management. Fulfil the employees duties described in the Universitys health and safety policies and co-operate with the health and safety arrangements in place within the school. May
be required to undertake specific health and safety roles on request e.g., Display screen equipment assessor, departmental safety officer, fire warden etc.
Show a commitment to diversity, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices this includes undertaking mandatory equality and diversity training.
Comply with University regulations, policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Clinical Psychology (ClinPsyD) professional Doctoral degree qualification or equivalent. Additional training as an accredited CBT practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist within the mental health specialism.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active service user involvement/participation.
Desirable
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
- Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, as applied in clinical area.
- Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area.
- Basic IT skills
- To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up to date clinical advanced/specialist knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new knowledge
- Work closely with and provide advanced/specialist advice and consultation to all other professionals within the speciality
- To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.
- To ensure up to date knowledge of relevant national and local policies/drivers to enable the post holder to review service need contribute to service/workforce re-design and its implementation, ensuring a needs led service based on best practice provided.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical Psychologist registered as a practitioner psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Clinical Psychology (ClinPsyD) professional Doctoral degree qualification or equivalent. Additional training as an accredited CBT practitioner
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist within the mental health specialism.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of teaching and training.
- Experience of providing clinical supervision.
- Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active service user involvement/participation.
Desirable
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
- Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, as applied in clinical area.
- Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area.
- Basic IT skills
- To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up to date clinical advanced/specialist knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new knowledge
- Work closely with and provide advanced/specialist advice and consultation to all other professionals within the speciality
- To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.
- To ensure up to date knowledge of relevant national and local policies/drivers to enable the post holder to review service need contribute to service/workforce re-design and its implementation, ensuring a needs led service based on best practice provided.
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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
University of Hull
Address
University Of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RX
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
University of Hull
Address
University Of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RX
Employer's website
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Details
Date posted
24 November 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£58,972 a year NHS agenda for change band 8b
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
3 years
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
N0083-UOH-TA-0107
Job locations
University Of Hull
Cottingham Road
Hull
HU6 7RX