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About
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to the people of Leeds and across the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Service users are at the heart of our organisation. We constantly strive to provide the best possible care and support, working closely with related organisations to provide effective, accessible and modern mental health and learning disability services.
Working in partnership with our local communities, our core purpose is to improve the mental health and well being of the people who use our services.
Our Trust was awarded NHS foundation trust status on 1 August 2007. On 1 February 2012 our Trust became known as Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
As a Foundation Trust we are accountable to the people we serve. Our Board of Directors is made up of executive and non-executive directors and is led by a Chair that is a non-executive director.
From 1 October 2015 our Trust has provided specialist mental health and learning disability services to people within Leeds and specialist services in York.
Our purpose
Our purpose is ‘improving health, improving lives’ and this is supported by our vision, values and behaviours.
The Trust is on a journey to embed collective and distributed leadership as close to services and service users as possible, so everyone is working towards shared goals, decision making and working collaboratively.
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 19-May-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 19-May-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- CREST
- Address
- Newsam Centre
- Town
- Leeds
- Postcode
- LS14 6UH
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Complex rehabilitation, CREST
- Interview date
- 29/05/2024
All references should be directed through the Employers HR Department wherever possible to comply with NHS Check Standards. Please ensure that a HR address/email is provided for each referee named.
Job overview
Are you looking for a psychologist role where you work alongside a team comprising both multi-professional and peer recovery expertise to offer clarity, hope and innovative approaches to services users preparing for community living after years in inpatient settings? Are you looking for a role where you maximise all of your skills as a psychologist, working into a service which prioritises psychologically informed approaches?
The opportunity is now available for a 0.6WTE 8a HCPC registered Psychologist to contribute to the growth of our service, CREST (Community Rehabilitation Enhanced Support Team). Established in 2021, the team comprises a full multi-professional and peer recovery workforce who deliver new ways of working for people placed out of area (OOA) to effectively be repatriated from inpatient settings and forge new lives nearer to home. Through collaboration and coproduction, the service seeks to empower people to define, build and live meaningful, independent and satisfying lives outside of locked settings, often termed “complex rehabilitation”. Our service-users have told us that “working with CREST I feel like I’ve got …. somewhere to turn to when I need support”; “Through CREST, the support is there so I feel a lot stronger in myself” and “The staff have been wonderful, and they’ve helped me in some different ways”.
Advert
As a psychologist working alongside a growing team of psychological practitioners, a full MDT and peer recovery workforce you would share your expertise and commitment to working with people experiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties emerging from trauma, which may have been diagnosed as severe mental illness and personality disorder. This would include delivering appropriate direct and indirect clinical interventions, team formulations, reflective practice, consultancy, and training to help develop a team-based, trauma and psychologically informed understanding of the service users’ needs.
You would be supported by the consultant psychologists, principal psychologist, and wider leadership group to empower individuals and teams to increase their knowledge, skills, and professional confidence in improving service user outcomes. You would expand your knowledge and experience working across the Trust and region-wide ICS clinical and organisational landscape. As it is a new and developing service, you would have the opportunity to take a role in aspects of service design and development, supporting the team deliver effective approaches utilising both best practice and cutting-edge innovation to deliver the highest quality care. You would be invested in to consolidate and expand your professional development, through regular supervision, relevant CPD, training and development opportunities.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Senior Psychologist in a multi-disciplinary service, you will be responsible for providing high quality evidence-based, specialist psychological assessment, formulation, and intervention for service users. Having an interest and in, as well as the skills to support professional colleagues to develop and use psychological thinking in their work with service users presenting with complex and severe mental health problems will be a key part of this role. You will offer advice and consultation on service users’ psychological care to non-psychologist colleagues, other agencies, non - professional carers, and communities. You will work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the service line policies and procedures.
We believe in the value of supervision; you will be responsible for providing supervision to Trainee and Assistant Psychologists, where appropriate, as well as providing consultation and advice to members of the MDT and other professionals supporting service users. You will also engage in your own supervision and CPD activities. You will utilise research skills for audit, service development, evaluation, and research within the service area, as well as contributing to psychological aspects of service development in service areas of primary responsibility.
The team is based at the Newsam Centre in Leeds. Travel will be required across the West Yorkshire Area, with some travel to out of area hospitals outside of the West Yorkshire Footprint as part of assessment and engagement.
Flexible working hours can be discussed and as the role is regionwide, there would be combined direct and remote working to optimise both clinical delivery and staff wellbeing. This would include agile working with opportunities to work from different locations across the region.
Further information about CREST is available via Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust -CREST (leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk), and to discuss the post please contact Dr Zoe McAndrews, Principal Clinical Psychologist. Informal discussions about the role are most welcome.
We are committed to robust professional leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion and supporting staff wellbeing and CPD. Our Psychological Professions Strategy outlines our vision. We are proud that 100% of LYPFT psychological professionals recently surveyed reported they felt supported by colleagues.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Doctoral level training in Clinical Psychology (or equivalent prior to 1996), and HCPC registration
Skills
Essential criteria
- Formal training in supervision of others.
- Additional post qualification training relevant to the service and job role outlined in the job summary.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience in an area of practice relevant to the service specified in the job summary, to include assessment of risk.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Zoe McAndrews
- Job title
- Principal Clinical Psychologist for CREST
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0113 8556486
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