Clinical Psychologist for Well Being NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Well Being team at STHK for a Clinical Psychologist who has the appropriate leadership skills, knowledge and experience to take up this part time position. The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively, prioritise and demonstrate their organisational and time management skills. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work both individually and as a member of a team within the Well Being Service. The Trust is located in the dynamic North West, a hub of sporting and cultural activity, but with first rate links to encompass of choice of stunning countryside. .

You will be part of a proactive team who strives to support staff to care for their own well being. There have been various developments within the Service, including the development of a Well Being Service. The team is friendly, experienced and dynamic it is nurse led and is supported by psychiatric nurses, counsellors as well as a well being co-ordinator.

Main duties of the job

This role offers a new and exciting opportunity for a Clinical Psychologist to work within the Health Work and Well Being Service. The successful candidate will:

• Be responsible for the systemic provision of highly specialist psychological services for employees within the Trust
• Be expected to support employees on a one to one or a group setting dependant on need.
• Oversee debriefing incident following trauma

Work alongside members of the Well Being team supporting the employees of STHK.

The post holder will

• Be flexible in their approach to the role.
• Work as part as a multi-disciplinary team
• Have a proven track record of delivering excellent care
• Be an integral part of the well being team
• Be involved in case work, MDT meetings and contribute to the further development of the well being service.

Interview Date: 24th August 2021

Working for our organisation

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the BEST acute Trusts in England for the THIRD year running!

The Trust is currently the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and is one of few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 350,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. We are also a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our ’5 Star Patient Care’ strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY DUTIES

• To be responsible for the systematic provision of highly specialist psychological services for employees suffering primarily from complex psychological problems.
• To provide services that meet the agreed service priorities consonant with practitioner experience and expertise. Such services to include the development and implementation of highly specialist psychological assessment and intervention strategies including clinical casework and the provision of consultancy work generally for the assurance of quality in the use of psychological methods by other team members.
• This job description recognises the need to ensure appropriate supervision and professional development as a core theme.
• The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers.
• The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:
• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

CLINICAL:

• To be a member of the service teams and to contribute to, participate in and adhere to the routines and policies of those teams.
• To be responsible for the systematic provision of psychological services at a highly specialist level. To adhere to the organisation of the service particularly with regard to membership of the multidisciplinary teams.
• Regular attendance at the specialist team MDT meetings and clinics is essential to support psychological understanding and thinking of the teams working with employees.
• Services will be 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 interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care. Services will include the following:-
  
  • Highly specialist one-to-one clinical consultations
  • Highly specialist psychological assessment including issues of risk.
  • Psychological interventions for employees, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
  • Decision making for and evaluating treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
  • Exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based intervention plans
  • Staff consultation contributing directly to clients’ formulation, diagnosis and intervention plan
• Staff consultation on the use of psychological techniques
• In particular, as part of multidisciplinary, complex care team working, to provide casework for employees experiencing severe psychological difficulties. To prioritise workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work.
• To supply services within the context of existing multi professional teamwork. To negotiate appropriate professional relationships with both statutory and voluntary agencies to both ensure the referral of appropriate casework and communicate highly complex clinical information.
• To maintain the records of service in line with the policies of St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
• To provide input to health, social care and community-based services to enable best practice and service user choice in line with local service accessibility.
• To manage frequent exposure to highly distressing and emotional circumstances, and maintain substantial mental effort through frequent and intense levels of concentration and attention.

MANAGERIAL

• To support the formulation and implementation of clinical and operational practices and procedures as appropriate.
• Support the implementation, monitoring and updating of an operational policy and philosophy for the clinical area.
• To prioritise workload to ensure that skills are used to address the more severe and complex psychological presentations within this area of work.
• To ensure awareness of the needs for service development and assist in the planning and advocacy of future service provision.
• Ensure the principles of clinical governance are incorporated in service delivery by maintaining a high quality service based on agreed clinical standards.
• Participate in supervision.