Clinical Associate Psychologist - CAP | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Portland, DT5 1EQ |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6296907/277-6296907-DORS |
Summary
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As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking fora compassionate, knowledgeable and motivatedClinical Associate in Psychology (CAP)to join our friendly team atHMP The Verne.
Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. Wedirectly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery modelto provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of our team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
A CAP is a semi-autonomous psychological practitioner who has completed a BPS accredited Clinical Associate in Psychology apprenticeship training programme and works under the direct supervision of an experienced and HCPC registered clinical psychologist, within their scope of practice. CAPs are scientist practitioners who utilise psychological knowledge, research and theory to reduce psychological distress and to enhance psychological wellbeing in the clients they work with.
The post holder will provide psychological assessments, psychological formulations and deliver psychological interventions to the communities we serve within the Dorset prison cluster. In particular, those with complex mental health problems and other comorbidities in align with the service population, focusing on strength and assets to help people with what matters most to them. This work will be under the supervision of a qualified clinical psychologist who will retain clinical responsibility for clinical work carried out, provided that the clinical work is within the care plan specified. The post holder will beworking independently day-to-day according to a plan agreed with supervisors and within the overall framework of the service’s policies and procedures.The post holder will be working in HMP The Verne’s in reach mental health team, with some flexibility to carry out work across other local Dorset prison mental health services as needed.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
The post-holder has a responsibility to perform all tasks within the spirit and the policies of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. Under such direction and with these conditions the duties will be:
• To undertake psychological assessments of clients applying psychological theory,based on the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sourcesincluding: psychological and neuropsychological tests; risk assessment; self-report measures; rating scales; direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
• To develop formulations and deliver therapeutic interventions involving the psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems as part of a care plan,based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings,under the supervision of a qualified professional psychologist.To assist in coordinating and running therapeutic and/or psycho educational groups or clinical projects.
• To work with other staff to assess or support service users, including pre and post a dementia diagnosis and contribute to multi-disciplinary discussions or care guidelines as agreed with the clinical psychologist providing supervision.
• To assist in the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings where care takes place.
• To provide a range of information and support for evidence based low – intensity psychological treatments and indirect interventions. This work may be face to face, telephone or via other media.
• To educate and involve carers, family members and others in treatment and interventions as necessary.
• To help service users identify the best options/interventions to help them with what matters to them (this may not be psychological therapy or mental health services).
• To be mindful of the needs and assets of individuals and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious, and social backgrounds. To join with service users and colleagues, co-produce innovative ways of communicating and working across language and cultural differences.
• To communicate effectively through written reports and/or verbal feedback, the formulation and psychological understanding of a service user’s presenting difficulties to referrers, service users and other involved disciplines or agencies as appropriate.
• To develop working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations. To provide consultation within competency about the psychological care of the service user group to external staff and organisations. To refer to senior psychologist when the situation requires such input.
• Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week.
• To be responsible for providing and receiving complex, sensitive, distressing and emotional information in relation to health issues where these may be difficult to hear.
• To spend sustained amounts of time with service users whose behaviour may be aggressive and hostile, who may have poor verbal communication skills and self-care and special physical and/or mental needs
IT responsibilities (clinical)
• To assist in producing visual material or user-friendly information for interventions with clients.
• To be responsible for recording, monitoring and reporting on clinical work on the Trust/health system electronic health record systems and/ or any other patient database in relation to contact with patients.
• To provide accurate and timely clinical information as required. To input into Trust/ health system electronic record systems which include Electronic Patient Record Systems, Electronic Staff Record systems (e.g. Appraisal and supervision records) and on the Assurance systems such as Incident recording (Datix).
• To be proficient in the use of IT for email, intranet and clinical record purposes. To be familiar with word processing, database and statistical packages, and to use such packages for complex data analysis as necessary. To use appropriate computer software to develop and create clinical or other service-related reports or documents.
• To use information technology in line with Trust and NHS information governance requirements and maintain up to date knowledge of systems and governance requirements.
• To collate and report on information across service area using information systems to a high standard
Teaching, training and supervision
• In common with all clinical psychologists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional practice guidelines.
• To participate in continual professional development as directed including attending training courses, conferences and workshops as directed.
• To gain wider experience of professional psychology within the NHS over and above that provided within the principal service area where the post holder is employed.
• To contribute to the training and support of other staff in provision of psychological care, including preparing and presenting teaching materials to a professional level including the use of video conferencing, audio visual packages and data visualisation.
• To give support to other Clinical Associates in Psychology and new staff of the department.
• To report to manager concerns about areas of training need.
Management,Recruitment and Service Development
• Agree work/caseload levels with team manager and professional lead. Actively participate in the apprenticeship assessment, reviews and end point assessment
• Maintain log demonstrating university and practice-based learning outcomes.
• Complete coursework to require standard and deadlines.
• Participate in appraisal and development planning, identifying and agreeing training needs.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to the provision of services.
• Support service development and quality improvement initiatives within the directorate, in line with directorate priorities and in response to identified local need.
• Attend regular psychological professions meetings and maintain high standards of professional knowledge and practice in services.
Research and service evaluation
• To have completed the research component of the BPS accredited relevant training in Clinical Associate in Psychology.
• To contribute to audit/research/QI within the Trust using qualitative and quantitative methods.
• To plan, monitor and evaluate own work, using clinical outcomes assessments, small-scale research methodology and statistical procedures.
• Use skills in undertaking research, audit and evaluation analyse and interpret complex data, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement, complete repots and summaries using IT and statistical programmes.
General
• To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes, in consultation with the post holder’s professional and service manager(s),and (2) adherence to any local specialty standards.
• To contribute to the development and articulation of best practice in psychology across the service, by continuing to develop the skills of a reflexive and reflective scientist practitioner, taking part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
• To perform other duties of a similar kind appropriate to the grade, which may be required from time to time by their Psychology Manager and Team Clinical Leader (if this is not the Psychology Manager).
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024
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