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Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work / life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
Highly Specialist Therapist/Clinical/Practitioner Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Aug-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Address
- 225 Old Street
- Town
- Ashton under Lyne
- Postcode
- OL6 7SR
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 30 months (30 month fixed term contract)
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Research and Innovation
About the Trust
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
- Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
- Access to Continued Professional Development
- Involvement in improvement and research activities
- Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
- Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced national team of researchers to pilot and evaluate a joint response for young people experiencing mental health crisis. The response includes a collaboration between Greater Manchester Police and young people’s mental health services. This three-year pilot will provide one three-year full-time post or two part-time posts to Senior Mental Health Practitioners/Clinical Psychologists/Equivalent who are committed to improving crisis are for young people. The appointee(s) will have the opportunity to work flexibly across the Greater Manchester area, collaborate closely with the research team and associated stakeholder groups, and experience firsthand the live evaluation of an innovative and collaborative approach to care.
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Working for our organisation
• To ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality, evidence based
and psychologically informed services for young people experiencing a
mental health crisis.
• To facilitate increased psychological awareness, particularly in relation
to triggers and trauma, offering case-based consultation and bespoke
training with the police, NHS practitioners, and vulnerable young
people and families.
• To create opportunities within the team to encourage staff to reflect on
the emotional impact of the work both individually and as a team and to
take steps to mitigate some of these risks.
• To work with colleagues through crisis response impacted by critical
incidents and other traumatic events.
• To provide expert consultation, advice and support in formulating and
understanding the behaviours and presentations of children and young
people.
• To contribute to multi-agency working arrangements designed to
support the health, well-being and safety of children, young people and
families.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines, liaising as
appropriate between the research team and clinical team.
• To take responsibility for developing strong, collaborative relationships
with staff and managers associated with emergency responses and
crisis care.
• To utilise research skills for audit, evaluation, policy, and service
development purposes, within the context of the NIHR HS&DR funded
pilot
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
• To work with members of the crisis teams and CAMHS to rapidly
develop psychological formulations about children and/or families in
crisis.
• To use psychological formulations to provide sound, evidence-based
guidance to colleagues, families, carers and young people.
• To provide clinical advice and notes that accurately outline the
information being used to guide the formulation and have clear
guidance about any mental health risk and any next steps.
• To ensure any mental health risks discussed in attendance to crisis call
outs are shared appropriately within the parameters of the crisis
pathways and working relationships with members of GMP.
• To help the appropriate teams use the formulation to inform other
professionals of how to understand and work in accordance with the
formulation in order to improve outcomes and reduce risk for young
people.
• To contribute to the multi-disciplinary team’s psychological
understanding of young people and their families and offer guidance to
improve mental health and other important outcomes.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the entirety of
your work.
• To take an active role in the process of multi-disciplinary risk
assessment, utilising clinical guidelines to support consultation and
formulation processes, documenting formulations and
recommendations as appropriate.
• To support the family and multidisciplinary professionals to understand
and take positive risks, as part of an agreed plan.
• To report adverse incidents (for clinical and research purposes) and
ensure documentation is detailed and supported by evidence.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the advice,
consultation and formulation provided.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based
framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the
service across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information
concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of young
people engaging with crisis services.
• To provide expertise, brief evidence-based therapeutic support,
enhance coping skills, advice, and support to facilitate the effective and
appropriate provision of psychological care to the young people.
• To create a psychologically safe space in which individuals or the team
consider the impact of the work and to think about ways to mitigate the
potential risks to their own wellbeing.
• To utilise their expert knowledge about vicarious trauma to help teams
take steps to reduce the risk of secondary trauma while doing this
work.
• To gain, evaluate, disseminate, and implement research findings.
• in, evaluate, disseminate, and implement research findings.
• te, and implement research findings.
• · To review and reflect upon own practice through participation in and
effective use of professional and operational supervision and appraisal.
• · To fully engage in research team and clinical team meetings.
• To keep detailed clinical and research notes to inform the young
person’s ongoing care and role within the research study.
• To proactively support young people’s engagement in the research
study, alongside their parents/carers, or other relevant trusted adults in
the young person’s life.
• To obtain informed assent/consent for inclusion from prospective
participants in research activities.
• To conduct and document risk assessment in therapeutic and training
situations, hospital, and community settings, balancing the conflicting
interaction of the individual needs of the children and adolescents,
those who care for them, therapeutic goals, and risk minimisation.
Teaching, training, and supervision
• To provide training and workshops to professionals working within the
Greater Manchester, particularly in relation to psychological trauma
and research findings.
• To work with managers to contribute to the identification of the clinical
training needs of staff working in crisis pathways and to work towards
addressing such training needs as appropriate.
• To maintain and develop skills in the area of own professional post
graduate training and clinical supervision skills.
• To receive regular clinical and research supervision from a senior
clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional
colleagues.
• To contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching and training of
clinical and counselling psychologists, as appropriate and with
agreement from senior management. This may include contributing to
the supervision of clinical psychology trainees on placement.
• To receive regular individual and peer group clinical supervision in
accordance with the good practice guideline of the appropriate
registered Professionals Standards Authority.
• To participate in and develop an up-to-date personal development plan
reflecting on own needs and engaging in development of clear
objectives.
• To maintain and develop specialist psychological knowledge and skills,
using appraisal and continuing professional development systems.
• To provide clinical supervision to psychologists/psychological
therapists and other professionals, as agreed with the Clinical Leads
• To undertake any available and appropriate management training
within the service.
• To represent senior clinical psychology colleagues at service meetings,
as directed by the Lead Psychologist for the service/Chief Investigator
for the study.
• To adhere to the Code of Conduct as outlined by the BPS and the
Division of Clinical Psychology and by the Health and Care Professions
Council and other registered Professionals Standards Authority.
• To adhere to the Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act, as
required.
• To take part in regular audit and peer review.
• To provide a positive role model to staff and enable a high level of
support in order to deliver high quality care to the client group.
Management, Recruitment, Policy, and Service development
• To maintain the spreadsheet of activity for the research team and
utilise feedback mechanisms for all training, consultation and staff
support and where necessary develop bespoke feedback mechanisms.
• To contribute to the writing and development of reports, policy
documents, and to provide overall support to the research process.
• To carry out regular reviews of services delivered (e.g., 111/999 call
outs, staff support) to the clinical lead and chief investigator.
• Support the chief investigator with refining the treatment protocol and
associated documents to ensure the service is being delivered to a
high quality with treatment integrity, incorporating suitable
psychological models.
• To identify good practice, to share it and promote it regionally and
nationally with the research team.
• To contribute to research, policy and practice development as
identified, and to seek proactively opportunities to engage in the same.
• To participate as a senior clinician in the development of a high quality,
responsive and accessible service.
• To exercise delegated responsibility for managing, alongside senior
management, the resources available, according to the SoECAT and
project budget.
• To exercise responsibility for recording and implementing the
systematic governance of psychological practice within the
service/team.
Research and service evaluation
• To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support
best practice in clinical research and practice.
• To undertake appropriate research with the team and provide research
advice to other staff undertaking research through the Young People’s
Research Centre.
• To initiate project management, including complex audit and service
evaluation with colleagues.
• To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the
team’s operational policies and service, keeping detailed records to
inform the overarching research process.
General
• To ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the
highest professional standards of practice, through active participation
in internal and external CPD training and development programmes
• To take part in regular professional supervision and appraisal and
maintaining an active engagement with current developments in the
field of clinical psychology and related disciplines.
• To maintain and promulgate the highest standards of clinical records
keeping in accordance with professional codes of practice of the British
Psychological Society and Trust policies and procedures.
• To maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local
policies, and issues in relation to both the specific client group and
wider child psychology
This job description is not exhaustive, but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process
A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.
Disclosure Barring Certificate check
All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).
An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month’s salary.
If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.
We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).
Other important information
- We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
- Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
- This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
- You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
- We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
- If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
- If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
- We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
- Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges. We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.
Vaccination
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.
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
- Registered practitioner psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) OR Registered social worker or mental health nurse with relevant experience working in psychologically informed multi-agency settings OR HCPC registered professional with additional post graduate qualification in an evidence-based psychological therapy to Masters Level or equivalent OR Psychological therapy qualification and accreditation recognised by the Professional Standards Authority (e.g UKCP, BABCP, BACP, BPC etc) to Masters Level or equivalent Training in the supervision of psychological therapists and/or other professionals within the MDT Post-Masters training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice
Desirable criteria
- h the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) OR Registered social worker or mental health nurse with relevant experience working in psychologically informed multi-agency settings OR HCPC registered professional with additional post graduate qualification in an evidence-based psychological therapy to Masters Level or equivalent OR Psychological therapy qualification and accreditation recognised by the Professional Standards Authority (e.g UKCP, BABCP, BACP, BPC etc) to Masters Level or equivalent Training in the supervision of psychological therapists and/or other professionals within the MDT Post-Masters training in one or more additional specialised areas of psychological practice Post-qualification training in specialist therapeutic work with children, young people and families e.g. DBT, CBT, EMDR, IPT, FT Training and experience in delivering specialist therapeutic group work or support to staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience working in the NHS or other relevant settings, offering consultation or case-based formulation in a psychologically informed, multi-agency setting Experience of multi-agency working to safeguard adults and/or children and young people Experience of working with children and/or adults presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a wide range of settings including outpatient, community and in-patient settings. Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism and good self-care in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems Experience of exercising full responsibility for clients’ care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan, including caseload management. Experience of assessing and intervening therapeutically around child protection issues Experience of representing complex, psychologically-informed therapy or care within the context of multidisciplinary settings Experience of teaching multi-agency professionals including the identification of need and development of training packages Experience of delivering clinical supervision/consultancy with multiagency staff
Desirable criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified practitioner psychologist Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts Experience of crisis care/acute care. Experience of clinical supervision of trainee psychologists, assistants or qualified psychology staff or other professionals within an MDT Experience of service audit and/or project management within the clinical setting Involvement in service development within adult and/or children’s services Experience of providing staff support following serious incidents.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialised knowledge of mental health issues Highly specialised knowledge of assessment, formulation, and therapeutic intervention around mental health Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of organisational development and group/team dynamics Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of brief psychological therapies for children and/or adults who have experienced trauma Knowledge of child development Knowledge of children and/or adults with complex needs and neurodiversity Knowledge of child safeguarding and familiarity with local and national child protection procedures Knowledge of the systemic, developmental and psychological issues within the context of children at risk of exploitation and/or violence Knowledge of a range of services typically involved with families with complex needs Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised assessment methodologies for children and young people Specialist training in therapeutic approaches relevant to children and/or adults who have experienced trauma Knowledge of Governmental and Strategic policies and national clinical guidance in relation to children and young people, mental health and CAMHS Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodologies.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed skills in providing time limited brief therapies and consultation to young people, families, and other professional and nonprofessional in one-to-one and group settings. Application form and interview AFC 14/5/24 JME-088-24 Highly Specialist Therapist/Clinical Psychologist/Practitioner Psychologist Band 8a Ability to work with a range of professionals from a range of agencies. Resilience when working with indirect and direct exposure to traumatic events and/or material. Well-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 develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings. Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, including psychometric assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration Ability to work independently and as part of a team
work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- 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, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of safe and effective practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. As this post is based in a police station, research team, and CAMHS, there may be a requirement that staff must be willing to undergo additional vetting and training Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across Greater Manchester in line with service needs Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zarah Eve
- Job title
- CYP Research Centre Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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