Preceptorship Clinical Psychologist Band 7-8a

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

Available as a Band 7 Preceptorship for newly/recently qualified practitioner. We are seeking a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist who is highly motivated and enthusiastic about working with adults with a learning disability. We are pleased to consider applications from recently qualified practitioners to commence in a Preceptorship Post (commence at AfC Band 7).

This post is based at Rowan View Medium Secure Unit, within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are committed to supporting your professional development, with service development opportunities and regular clinical supervision.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to work as part of our established and highly supportive multi-disciplinary team. Core clinical functions include aspects of assessment, intervention, consultation, clinical team formulation, training, working with and across multi-disciplinary teams and systems, and supporting our programme of audit and research.

The post is supervised by the Consultant Clinical Psychologist and jointly with the Principal Clinical Psychologist. You will be joining an expanding group of psychologists with a wide range of experience and interests.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• A First or Upper Second honours degree in psychology OR a lower class with a post-graduate qualification, (e.g.: Master's degree).
• ECDL or demonstrable proficiency with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Publisher and SPSS.
• Post-graduate doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology as accredited by the BPS.
• Registration with HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

Desirable criteria

• Further training in relevant areas of professional psychology, mental health practice, autism, personality disorder and/or research design and analysis.
• Post-doctoral training in additional specialised areas of psychological practice such as risk assessment; autism; positive behaviour support, personality disorder; substance use; and/or specific therapeutic modalities.

KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:

Essential criteria

• Assessed experience of work for a minimum of six months within the field of learning disability.
• Post-qualification experience of working with individuals with histories of problems of complex, multi-factorial origin.
• Experience of working with a variety of service user groups, across the whole life course and a full range of care settings, maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and threats of physical abuse.
• Experience of exercising clinical responsibility for service user's psychological care and treatment, both as a profession and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team/ experience of working alongside staff from other disciplines.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams and/or services within learning disability.
• Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora.
• Experience of the application of psychological theories within different cultural contexts.
• Personal experience of mental health problems.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical psychology in relation to working with people with learning disability and behaviours that challenge/mental health/offending.
• Skills in the use of methods of psychological assessment & formulation.
• An excellent ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, complex, technical and clinically sensitive information, to service users, their families and a wide range of professionals within and outside of the NHS.
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and nonprofessional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology.
• Knowledge of legislation and the implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group and mental health issues in general.
• Ability to identify, provide, and promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to highly distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to identify and employ where appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to develop and use complex multi-media material for presentations to the public, professionals and academic settings.

Desirable criteria

• An ability to apply existing psychological knowledge to a specialist community learning disability context.
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological interventions in specific, difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis issues, autism, additional disabilities and drug/alcohol issues etc.)
• Record of having published in either peer reviewed academic or professional journals and/or books.
• Ability to articulate and interpret the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon an understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

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

• Job Description (PDF, 483.2KB)
• OH Risk ID form Feb 25 (PDF, 248.6KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)