Specialist Clinical Psychologist

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work in a dedicated community service providing treatment to people with needs understood as personality difficulties. You will have opportunity to access training in evidence based treatments including Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. This post is suitable for newly qualified practitioner psychologist on a B7 to B8a development post.
You will work closely with the highly specialist clinical psychologist and the multi disciplinary team who are all motivated to work in a psychologically focused way to provide the highest quality, person centred care across to people across the county of Lincolnshire.
The whole team place great value on clinical supervision and reflective spaces, utilising skills and psychological models to expand their own thinking and ensure helpful, considered responses that enable the best life chances for the people who access the service.
The psychology structure in LPFT enables shared thinking and development across the community and inpatient services with high levels of support and the whole organisation is transforming to provide a greater psychological focus across all services.
The team hold strong values in understanding the people that access the service and modelling positive regard, the importance of working relationally and ensuring language reflects the values of the service and is inclusive for all.
To provide psychological knowledge and skills within a multi-professional team in the Adult Community Division. This will enable those with secondary mental health difficulties in Lincolnshire to live well in their communities, by alleviating distress, promoting change, and enhancing psychological wellbeing.
This will be achieved directly by delivering high quality psychological assessment, formulation and interventions to team clients, and indirectly through team and professional meetings and consultations; through clinical and professional supervision; though professional training and teaching; and through research and CPD.
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 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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.
To be a team psychologist and integrated member of a multi-professional mental health service.
To participate as part of the DBT Team
To work as an autonomous psychologist responsible for their own work and carry a personal caseload of team clients.
To complete secondary mental health care psychological assessments, formulations, interventions, and evaluations, both independently and alongside the team.
To provide formal clinical supervision to trainee psychologists and assistant psychologists and to provide a consultation space for the psychology resource within the team.
To support the clinical work of other professions within the team.
To provide psychological expertise and consultation to other agencies and professions regarding team clients.
To provide clinical leadership in respect of psychological aspects of service planning and co-ordination alongside the team manager.
To engage in psychological research activities, using research design, execution, and analysis relevant to the team and service development.
To take part in CPD and training, adhere to professional and Trust guidelines, and be compliant with Trust mandatory training.
To place an emphasis on co-production and demonstrate an attitude which respects and values clients’ and their carers and the core values of the Trust

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