Job summary
We are excited to offer a permanent role for a motivated Specialist Clinical Psychologist. We want you to join our Community Learning Disabilities Service, rated as 'Outstanding in Well Led' and 'Good' overall by CQC. You will be working within a Specialist Adult Learning Disabilities Service (South team, Grantham & Spalding). This role plays a key role in shaping and developing the current services lines and would be a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about driving change for the local community, through providing clinical leadership and innovative care for our clients.
These post provides an ideal opportunity for an existing Band 8a or Band 7 Clinical Psychologist looking to progress, or for someone who is newly qualified, to consolidate a range of clinical skills. The post affords the opportunity to progress from a Band 7 to a Band 8a Clinical Psychologist, following the successful completion of identified targets, based upon acquired skills and Agenda for Change job matching. We have a good track record of supporting such development within the service. We will also support with providing appropriate training opportunities suitable for the role.
For further information, please contact Dr Adam Harris (Consultant Clinical Psychologist) on 01476 858257 or [email protected]. Requests for flexible working will be considered.
Main duties of the job
You will support the provision of a specialist psychological service for adults with Learning Disabilities across 3 core pathways: mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health pathway.
Our psychologists primarily work on the mental health pathway, while also offering consultation and support to the other two pathways. We regularly support the service with the provision of specialist psychological assessment, formulation and intervention as well as evaluations/audits. Communication skills are key as well as being able to liaise and work with external and partner agencies.
We often provide training to external agencies to support our clinical interventions. Part of the role will also include the specialist identification and assessment of autism in adults with LD. The service will provide all necessary training required to fulfil the role (which includes training in autism diagnostic tools, if needed).
As part of this role, you will receive regular clinical supervision from a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist. You should also be able to provide clinical supervision to junior Psychologists as well as other members of the MDT. As a speciality we have good links with the local Trent DClinPsy programme and there is an expectation that we offer regular teaching and training placements to Clinical Psychologists in training.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide expert psychological services directly to adults with learning disabilities, including psychological assessment, formulation & intervention (direct & indirect), including management of risk. Work with a range of presenting problems related to LD/Autism.
- To develop, monitor and support interventions that will be applied by proxies (such as care workers).
- To provide the psychological components of multidisciplinary work, and to lead such interventions when the major components are psychological, particularly with regard to the MDT.
- To provide consultation, guidance and advice to relevant significant others (family/carers). To provide clinical supervision to junior psychologists (Assistants & Trainees).
- To provide consultation and advice and (where appropriate) clinical supervision to other professionals and agencies that provide services to adults with LD.
- To provide clinical leadership and advice to colleagues and other persons working with complex clients who have LD &/or Autism across the County.
- To provide inputs to the Trent DClinPsy training course including curriculum development, teaching and assessment.
- To participate in the evaluation, monitoring and development of the services policies, via research, audit, service evaluation. To collect data on referrals, caseloads and activities and submit these as required by the Trust.
- To take due care of the Trusts equipment and resources, including exercising responsibility for managing the psychological resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology accredited by the British Psychological Society or equivalent qualification accredited by the BPS
Desirable
- To be achieved during tenure: Basic qualification in management (e.g., Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) level 3 certificate in first line management), or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Training in clinical supervision of trainee and newly qualified Clinical Psychologists
- Training to a level equivalent to a PG Diploma in a clinical specialism that will have a positive impact on the existing team
Skills
Essential
- Post-qualification experience specialising in psychological services for autistic adults (with/without learning disabilities), to include experience of specialising in a particular area of psychology
- Experience of providing clinical leadership, particularly with regard to other professions (e.g. nursing, MDTs)
- Experienced in working with individuals with other complex needs including developmental disorders, neurological disorders, mental illness, and combinations of these with learning disabilities (multiple diagnoses).
- Experienced in working with the full range of cognitive abilities from profound to mild LD
- Experienced in communicating with clients who have severe limitations in comprehension and expression
- Experienced in working with individuals who have multiple disabilities
- Experienced in working with individuals with challenging and very hostile behaviours
- Experienced in working with adults who have been abused or neglected
- Experienced in working with highly dependent/ institutionalised clients and working by proxy through other staff
- Experienced in identifying risk factors and consulting on issues of risk with other agencies
- Experienced in working across a range of care settings including out-patient, in-patient, community and residential care settings
- Experienced in initiating and providing psychological services and initiating and managing change
- Experienced in multidisciplinary and multi-agency working including working in teams and of taking a lead in team case work
- Experience of working with individuals with dual diagnosis of learning disabilities and personality disorder
- Experience of representing psychological service in multidisciplinary fora
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experienced in supervision of trainee or recently qualified psychologists
- Experience of managing the activities or caseloads of trainee or recently qualified psychologists
- Experience of conducting research at postgraduate (master's or Doctoral) level
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
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Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
To be negotiated upon appointment
Lincoln
LN1 1FS