Applied Psychologist

NHS; Scarborough; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

The Perinatal Mental Health Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. We are excited to be offering Specialist or Highly Specialist Applied Psychologist posts within the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Community Service North Yorkshire and York. This post will provide services to the York and Scarborough geographic areas.

We are a specialist service that strives to deliver excellent standards of care to expectant and new mothers with severe and complex mental health problems. We are looking for highly motivated practitioners with an interest in perinatal mental health; however, further specialist training and supervision will be provided to the successful candidates.

The Applied Psychologist role is key to the provision of high-quality care for patients, carers, and families within the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Community Service. This role is highly valued in the team, Care Group, and within the Trust, with good professional support.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide specialist psychological assessments, formulation, and therapies and be part of an MDT approach. Alongside direct clinical work, providing consultation, training, and clinical supervision to other team members as well as trainee and assistant psychologists are integral to the role.

This vacancy is a maternity leave cover.

The post holder may have to travel across the locality as required; therefore, they must be able to demonstrate that they can travel independently.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities, and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in, and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families, and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right in areas that really need it. We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need to lead their best possible life.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specifications for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Psychologists & Psychological Therapists provide key leadership roles within the Trust. To support this, we have developed leadership profiles for each psychology band, and the profile card associated with this post is attached on NHS Jobs. We encourage you to look at these resources as they will play a part in the interview process.

Additional contact details: Stephen Donaldson - [e-mail] (Professional Lead for Psychological Professions York, Selby, and Specialist Services).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Post-graduate training (doctoral level equivalent) in clinical / counselling / forensic psychology (or its equivalent prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS.
• HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist.
• Trained in clinical supervision (within agreed timescale).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Trained in care co-ordination.
• Post-graduate qualification showing evidence of supervised practice in an evidence-based psychological therapeutic model.
• Registration with BPS.

Knowledge

• Risk assessment and risk management.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health.

Skills

• Communicate complex and highly sensitive information effectively, to a wide range of people.
• Provide (within agreed timescale) effective teaching, training, and clinical supervision.
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake care co-ordination/lead practitioner responsibilities.
• Undertake complex multiagency working and liaise with multiple systems.

Experience

• Experience of working within mental health.
• Exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care as a care coordinator within the context of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of joint working with statutory, voluntary, and private sector agencies.

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.