Band 8a Clinical Psychologist

at  Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to be at the forefront of innovative service development? Are you good at building relationships, working with teams and promoting new ways of doing things?
Our recently launched Derby Wellbeing (Living Well) teams deliver the Community Mental Health Framework to the people of Derby, promoting recovery for people with complex mental illness through the provision of holistic community based support and interventions.
We are looking for a forward thinking Clinical Psychologist (Band 8a) who is passionate and enthusiastic about transforming mental health services.
You will be committed to co-production and multidisciplinary team working and have excellent relationship skills, whilst capable to manage varied work demands.
Working in the Derby Wellbeing teams, you will be responsible for supporting the provision of short term psychological offers within the Wellbeing teams. There will be a virtual team of other equivalent psychology roles in the North and the South of the County.
Living Well Derbyshire :: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk)
www.livingwellderbyshire.org.uk
You will develop, oversee and deliver short term psychologically informed offers in the Derby Wellbeing teams. You will provide direct clinical work, predominantly group work, jointly with your colleagues. You will promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development. You will offer research skills and service evaluation/development.
We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups e.g. CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.
Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team report feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.
Join our team of nearly 300 staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.
If you would like to join our friendly Psychological Therapies team please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate and Trust. We are flexible in creating mutually agreeable job plans. We warmly welcome enquires for informal discussions and around options.
The full job description and person specification can be found on the job application page.
Key Result Areas
1. Clinical

a. Provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with service users, family members and others involved in the service user’s care.
b. Formulating and implementing plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a service user’s psychological difficulties, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the service user’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy across the full range of care settings.
c. Implementing a range of highly specialised psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families, and groups, adjusting, and refining psychological formulations as required and to monitor and evaluate progress of interventions.
d. Evaluating and making decisions about treatment options considering both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family, or group.
e. Exercising autonomous professional responsibility within the context of multidisciplinary team working, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users.
f. Consulting, advising, and/or supervising colleagues from other disciplines on the psychological formulation and management of patients with mental health problems, particularly in areas of specialist knowledge.
g. Contributing directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.
h. Implementing case management including working within the framework of the Care Programme Approach, fulfilling the role of care co-ordinator as appropriate; initiating planning and review of care plans involving service users, carers, and others involved in the care package, in this process.
i. Assessing, monitoring, and managing clinical risk to minimise this risk to patients, other people, and oneself, and providing advice on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
j. Communicating orally and in writing, in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users, to referrers and others involved in the service user’s care on a need-to-know basis.
k. Developing and maintaining links and liaison with officers and staff of Social Services, General Practitioners, and other primary Health Care Workers.
l. Attending clinical meetings, case reviews, and case conferences as appropriate.
m. Maintaining/managing waiting lists for referrals to psychological services within the teams where the post holder is based as required
n. Carrying out other clinical duties as may be agreed with the Chief Psychologist and Lead Psychologists