Job summary
- Main area
- Psychology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 409-S6848420
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NW Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/01/2025
Employer heading
Principal Clinical Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to shape a brand-new formal leadership position as a Principal Clinical Psychologist / Deputy Service Lead at the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre located in Southport.Ìý You will be joining a whole new team that is being recruited into alongside the Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Service Lead, consisting of Senior Clinical Psychologists and a Counsellor.Ìý
All psychologists are trained in EMDR with new pathways being developed.Ìý There are ample service development opportunities to implement the standards and recommendations (BASCIS, 2023), to span from pre-admission outreach into the region’s Major Trauma Centres to inpatients, develop values-based discharge planning etc.Ìý There are varying levels of complexity and needs, both for individuals, their carers / significant others and groups, as well as opportunities for staff training and systemic culture change.Ìý The service is looking to recruit dynamic staff who are keen to identify projects for quality improvement, research, publications and present at conferences.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Please note, this recruitment process will involve an assessment centre which is due to be held on 28th January 2025.
Main duties of the job
The Principal Clinical Psychologist will be responsible for further development and provision of the clinical psychology service within the NWRSIC at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.Ìý 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.Ìý The post holder will also provide a service in the areas of teaching and training, consultancy and staff support, and research and evaluation.Ìý Multidisciplinary care is achieved through liaising closely with other disciplines both within and outside the hospital.
Working for our organisation
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July 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:
- CAREÌýthat 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide a highly specialist clinical psychology service to inpatients within the NWRSIC, across the acute and rehabilitation wards with some outreach where clinically indicated.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To deliver and supervise highly specialist psychological assessment and treatment to adult inpatients at the NWRSIC, on an individual and group basis.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide advice and consultation regarding inpatients’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide consultation to the NWRSIC outreach service regarding admission of inpatients with complex psychological / psychiatric needs
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To contribute to the strategic planning of clinical psychology services within the NWRSIC, with the aim of maintain high levels of psychosocial care for patients
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To represent Clinical Psychology in the NWRSIC’s wider organisational and national forums.Ìý
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To lead the planning, development and delivery of the Department’s teaching and training commitments.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in clinical psychology or equivalent for those who trained prior to 1996, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the BPS
- Professional registration as Practitioner Psychologist with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
- Spinal Injuries and trauma CPD
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology including highly developed specialist knowledge of lifespan developmental psychology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, particularly the literature pertaining to two or more distinct psychological therapies for use with adults, their families and carers
- Highly developed skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, neuropsychological assessment and intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
- Knowledge and skills relevant to the assessment and treatment of people who have suffered a spinal injury or physical health trauma
- A high level of ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- High level skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
- Knowledge of safeguarding, MHA and other key legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and supervision regarding work with children, young people adults and their families/carers
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists and professionals
- An interest in healthcare leadership, management and promotion of Clinical Health Psychology
- Advanced word processing skills. Advanced use of presentation software such as MS PowerPoint. Use of internet for searching documents and research. Use of email
- Extensive experience of working as a qualified clinical psychologist including in a specialist area
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups across the lifespan, with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, across a range of care settings including inpatients and outpatients
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for client’s psychological care and treatment both as a professionally qualified autonomous practitioner and also within the context of multidisciplinary care plan
- Experience of working across different presentations, including trauma, establishing the most effective methods of working with adults and their carers
- Substantial experience of contributing a psychological perspective within the context of multidisciplinary care
- Substantial experience of supervising others as well as teaching and training
- Demonstrable experience of conducting complex audit/research and service evaluation
- Experience of supporting teams through change and contributing to transformation of services
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in spinal injuries
- Developed neuropsychological knowledge and/or training and qualification
- Well-developed knowledge of theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
- Accreditation in a therapeutic modality relevant to working with spinal/physical trauma, in accordance with NICE guidance
- Experience of working within the specialist field of spinal injuries with adults and their carers/families
- Experience of working within the specialist field of spinal injuries with adults and their carers/families
- Experience of working with trauma and clinical risk
- Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
- Experience of selection and recruitment of staff
Personal
Essential criteria
- Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration, responding and participating as required
- Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
- Ability to cope and deal with highly distressing emotional circumstances
- Ability to cope with unpleasant working conditions
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to line manage psychology colleagues and have a deputised leadership role for the NWSIC psychology service
- Working to professional guidelines
- Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
- Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to articulate and clearly interpret the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy
- Ability to travel between Trust sites in a timely way in order to meet clinical and service need
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multi-cultural framework
- Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journal and/or books
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Alice Plummer
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01704704333
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