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Principal Clinical Psychologist | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 October 2024 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 6PN |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6631500/409-S6425020-A |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to be a deputy Clinical Lead as part of a brand new psychology team developed for the North West Spinal Injuries Centre (NWSIC). You will work clinically onto the inpatient ward, have opportunity to support outreach work and work with spinal MDT colleagues to increase the psychological mindedness of the whole service. You will clinically supervise psychology colleagues and support the Consultant Clinical Psychologist in leading and driving psychology in spinal injuries. You will be part of a broader network of multi-specialist Psychologists across MWL who pride themselves on being high quality and dynamic.
Southport is a lovely place to live and work. A seaside town with thriving businesses and a great welcoming and friendly culture.
Our psychology workforce are all trained in EMDR and the successful candidate will be offered the opportunity to be trained in EMDR too.
Please note, this recruitment process will include an assessment centre.
The assessment centre will be held on 29th & 31st October 2024.
The Principal Clinical Psychologist will be responsible for further development and provision of the clinical psychology service within the WASIC at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The post holder will provide specialist assessment, treatment and consultancy services for individuals with spinal injuries and their families. The range of care provided embraces both that related to complex specialist care, as well as that related to generic care needs. The post holder will also provide a service in the areas of teaching and training, consultancy and staff support, and research and evaluation. Multidisciplinary care is achieved through liaising closely with other disciplines both within and outside the hospital.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
• SAFETY that is of the highest standards
• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.
KEY DUTIES
Patient / Client Care
· To apply a combination of specialist clinical skills derived from experience and further learning via CPD across the clinical spectrum of assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
· To provide specialist psychological assessments of clients referred to the NWSIC based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, 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 offer clinical services and direct clinical contact in a variety of settings in both inpatients and outpatients, both in person and virtually.
· To formulate and implement complex plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a client’s problems, 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.
· To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions (therapy) for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, whilst adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
· To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account their physical health presentation, both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual or group.
· To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
· To provide specialist, highly complex psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
· To communicate highly complex and highly emotive information to adults, their families, and carers.
· To ensure that all member of the treating team have access to a psychologically based framework for understanding and care of clients and provide advice and consultation and the dissemination of psychological research and theory.
· To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
· To communicate, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both unidisciplinary and multidisciplinary care.
· To provide expertise, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and appropriate provision of psychological care by all members of the treatment team.
SUPERVISION, CONSULTATION, TEACHING AND TRAINING
· To co-ordinate, in conjunction with the relevant manager, the effective supervision of psychological practice within the designated service.
· To provide clinical placements for trainee clinical and/or counselling psychologists ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competences, and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care, and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.
· To provide post qualification training, clinical and professional supervision to other qualified applied psychologists attached to the team, where appropriate.
· To provide clinical supervision to Clinical and other Practitioner Psychologists within the Clinical Psychology Department.
· To provide advice, consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other members of the MDT for their provision of psychologically based interventions to help improve clients functioning.
· To organise, co-ordinate and provide agreed post qualification teaching.
· To continue to develop skills in the area of professional pre and post graduate training under clinical supervision.
· To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
· In common with all Clinical Psychologists, to receive regular clinical and professional supervision from an appropriately experienced/ more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues.
POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
· To participate as a senior clinician in the development of high quality, responsive and accessible services including advising both operational and professional management on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
· To exercise responsibility for co-ordinating psychological resources available to the team in the form of additional qualified and unqualified graduate psychology staff or in the form of psychological materials employed in the assessment and treatment of service users.
· To exercise in collaboration with the relevant manager, responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the nominated service or team.
· To initiate and implement, in conjunction with relevant managers, service developments and projects within the sector/service.
· To be responsible for developing policies and procedures related to psychological care pathways within the service.
· To take a deputised clinical and professional lead as senior clinician, in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the team’s operational policies, through the deployment of professional skill and research, service evaluation and audit, and ensuring incorporation of psychological frameworks for understanding and provision of high quality multi-disciplinary care.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
· To be an authorised signatory for expense sheets and psychological resources, as agreed with the nominated manager.
HUMAN RESOURCES
· To take on as appropriate to a Deputy Clinical Lead role, management/supervisory responsibilities of psychology staff.
· To participate as appropriate in staff recruitment both in the short-listing process and as a member of interview panels for assistants, trainees and qualified clinical psychologists/ psychological practitioners and other staff within the designated service area.
INFORMATION RESOURCES
· To provide monthly clinical activity data and contribute to discussions about service wide activity.
· To provide appropriate statistical returns as required.
· To report on KPIs to operational leads and commissioning bodies.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
· 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 initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within and across the service to help develop and improve service provision.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Oct 2024
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