Consultant Practitioner Psychologist

Pennine Care NHS FT

CQC: Good

Bury

Salary

£79,504 – £91,609

Training post

Trust type

Acute

Posted

4 days ago

About the role

The Armed Forces Covenant 2011 commits the NHS to a number of actions to support veterans. By signing the Armed Forces Covenant (AFC) organisations demonstrates the intention to support the Armed Forces community The Postholder will:Contribute to the Trust wide strategy for Psychological Therapies, working closelywith the adult pathway lead, Specialist Directorate Psychological Therapies NetworkLead and the senior psychosocial therapies leadership team to provide high quality safe and effective care for our clients. Promote collaborative working between all key stakeholders including client groups, the broader MDT, which would include local and national partners. Represent MVS in the strategic psychological therapy structure trust wide including the psychotherapeutic committee. Significantly contribute to identifying unmet need and contributing to the development of new business proposals aligned to MVS.Support the trust to retain its position as an organisation that provides some of the highest standards, and most respected military veteran mental health and psychological care available in the UK. As part of the collaborative MVS leadership team contribute to strategic Development & Business Planning for Pennine Care's veterans services.

Person specification

Essential

Demonstrable evidence of leadership across areas and teams.
Commitment to quality improvement in psychological services through multi professional evaluation and audit of psychological services.
Knowledge of contemporary legislation relating to the delivery of mental health and psychological services and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
Knowledge and experience of the application of clinical risk management policies and procedures for the maintenance and improvement of psychological therapies.
Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the HCPC and BPS. Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to 'hold' the stress of others.
Highly specialised knowledge of assessment, formulation and therapeutic intervention around mental health
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational development and dynamics
Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for adults/veterans' who have experienced trauma including knowledge of the mental health needs of Military Veterans and their families/ carers.
Knowledge of partnership working and service development
Knowledge of a range of services typically involved with veterans with complex needs
Knowledge of the application of Quality governance and risk Knowledge of the application of Quality governance and risk
Knowledge of contemporary legislation relevant to the delivery of mental health and psychological services
Knowledge of professional issues in psychology and psychological therapies
Substantial assessed experience of working as a qualified clinical / counselling psychologist and experience as a senior clinical psychologist in the NHS
Experience of working with complex safeguarding of adults and / or children and young people
Experience of working with adults presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of care settings including community and voluntary sector settings, including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, including caseload management.
Experience of assessing and intervening clinically around adult and child protection issues.
Experience of representing psychology/ psychological therapy within the context of multi-disciplinary care
Experience of development and implementation of teaching/training packages for multi-agency professionals including the identification of need
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision and Consultancy across multi-disciplinary staff groups
Experience of managing clinical risk within a community setting
Highly specialised knowledge of military mental health issues including trauma
Previous service within the armed forces communities Or o Experience of working with the military communities/ service charities Or o Evidence of understanding the Military veterans' / HM Forces communities
Experience of working strategically to plan, develop and commission psychological services within and across organisations
Experience of effective leadership across a service
Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, and neuropsychology. Plus, further specialist training, research, or study, conferring advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within a specialist field of psychological therapy and across a number of areas (such as clinical, research and development, personnel, finance)
Post-doctoral training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice.
Valid registration with the HCPC
Evidence of continuing Professional Development as recommended by the BPS Additional clinical training appropriate to the service user group, for example EMDR , DBT, ACT for trauma
Evidence of working in the field
Training in the supervision of psychological therapists and / or other professionals within the MDT
Ability to engage a range of professional and non-professional groups in cooperative working
Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to "hold" the stress of others
An ability to work strategically to improve service delivery from a psychological service perspective.
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Highly developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
Ability to work strategically to improve service delivery from a psychological service perspective.
Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to multidisciplinary professionals exposed to highly distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours.
Ability to identify and employ, as appropriate, Quality Governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Ability to work face to face with potentially verbally aggressive patients in isolated settings without other team members being nearby and in accordance with the trust lone worker policy
Highly developed skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Ability to work with a range of professionals from a range of agencies
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
Ability to teach and train others using a variety of complex multi media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.

Desirable

Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialist psychological assessment methodologies for adults
Knowledge of systems theory and organisational change
Expertise in administration and interpretation of specialist psychological assessment tools
Specialist training in therapeutic approaches relevant to adults who have experienced trauma
Knowledge of Governmental and strategic policies and national clinical guidance in relation to adults/veterans' mental health
Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology
Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychological therapist