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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide hospital and community health services to a half a million people. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ over 6500 members of staff.
As an integrated care organisation, we work side by side with partners and the wider community to join up health and care for patients.
Before the Trust was formed on 1 October 2019, the former Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust worked with partners in the wider North Cumbria Health and Care System to become one of the first 14 areas nationally to be confirmed as an Integrated Care System.
Now working as a single Trust, we want to become more embedded in our local community. Not just caring for people but improving their wellbeing too.
In June 2019 a North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System was created. This means we're able to work together more easily across the region on shared challenges such as sustaining services.
There are lots of opportunities to join us at NCIC and be part of our organisation, either through a career with us or if you live in Cumbria, you can get involved as a member.
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Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Closed for applications on: 23-Oct-2024 13:19
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 23-Oct-2024 13:19
Key details
Location
- Site
- North/West Cumbria - Base Negotiable
- Town
- North Cumbria
- Postcode
- CA1 3SX
- Major / Minor Region
- Cumbria
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- 203265 Psychology - Physical Health
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit a Consultant Clinical Psychologist to provide professional and clinical leadership to the Maternal Mental Health team across North Cumbria. Applicants need to support key principles of compassionate leadership, psychological safety and demonstrate a commitment to support staff wellbeing and high quality patient care.
The post holder will have a primary focus on clinical pathway leadership. There is currently a key focus upon supporting the service to develop a network approach to deliver clinical health psychology services across Cumbria. This approach aims to develop skills and foster increased connectivity within our wider community of practice to increase the offer of psychological interventions to those with complex psychological difficulty.
There will be an emphasis upon interpersonal skills to form a compassion focused approach to leadership and team working. This will be an essential part of working collaboratively with operational management and other senior clinical colleagues to develop the offer of psychological services within teams and to lead on providing outcomes on psychology service delivery.
This strong focus upon interpersonal skills will also form a fundamental part of providing the supervision and professional leadership to psychology and wider MDT staff.
Advert
- To act as consultant clinical psychologist, providing highly specialised service, to include clinical service pathway development, training and supervision for range of health and social care professionals.
- To support the development of a new pathway for psychological care and support for staff across the North Cumbrian Integrated Care System. Particular areas for development include:
- To manage a small team potentially comprising clinical psychologists, psychological practitioners, assistant psychologists and/or living well coaches
- To provide strategic and clinical direction of the MMHS pathway
- To be able to deputise for consultant clinical leads across the health psychology service and offer professional and operational management in their absence, as required.
- To function as a full and active member of Physical Health Psychology service and the MMHS.
- To provide, or ensure the provision of clinical and professional supervision to colleagues and.
- To provide or advise on appropriate teaching, training and clinical supervision to colleagues working with staff members.
- To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the specialist area for which they have delegated responsibility.
- To utilise research skills for audit, policy and service development and research.
- To propose and implement policy changes within the area served by the team/service.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’:
· Being a clinically led organisation
· Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
· A positive patient experience every time
· A great place to work
· Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsibilities will include line management responsibilities of clinical psychologists, psychological practitioners, Counsellors, assistant psychologists and/or living well coaches. This could include other staff in Occupational health.
This post holder will be asked to support their Clinical Director, in their absence, to offer management to other physical health psychology staff.
The post holder will be asked to contribute at a Trust level to inform service design, and will be expected to engage with commissioners as required.
To develop, with other Physical Health Psychology staff, a comprehensive package of training suitable for all levels of staff, across the health economy, to develop skills suitable for patients presenting with persistent symptoms and psychological difficulties.
To deliver teaching and training and offer consultancy to a wide range of professionals, management staff and service users in factors relevant to staff psychological wellbeing. This may include training and consultancy is compassionate leadership.
To offer expert supervision to other staff including clinical psychologists, working in the Staff Psychological Wellbeing pathway and in the wider Health Psychology Service. To offer supervision to other professionals involved in staff health services including staff health counsellor and nurses.
Lead this service in respect of application, redesign and implementation of the service for the benefit of both patients and staff. This is to include;
- Pathway development, service evaluation and service improvement.
- Assessment tools and formats
- Therapy, interventions and treatment
- Outcome measures and framework
- Audit, data and review
- Working with the operational and admin teams to ensure efficient ways of working
- Innovative and inspiring leadership to the team and wider service
- Staff and personal development
- Clinical and management supervisions
- Be a specialist clinical resource for other members of health care staff
- Have a highly advanced knowledge of assessment for this client group
- Evaluate and make strong decisions regarding treatment options for patients
- Responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions
- Communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner
- Continuous service improvement
- To undertake risk assessment and development of risk management plans for the service and health care professionals
- Exercise a personal duty of care to all patients and staff
- Ensuring the safeguarding needs of the service users
- To set appropriate clinical standards in liaison with the Clinical Director
- Maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to both the specific client group and mental health.
- Maintain and audit the highest standards of clinical record keeping
- Produce practice based evidence to support the development of the highest professional standards of practice.
- Work within trust policy, values, guidance and governance
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.
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Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- Youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- The multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
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The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.
27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996), or equivalent applied Psychology training, psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
- HCPC registered
Desirable criteria
- Advanced training in an additional psychological model, eg Systemic
- Training as a schwartz training facilitator
- Training in TRiM
Experience
Essential criteria
- Assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist at a senior level, normally this would be a minimum of 6 years, with 2 years at a more senior highly specialist level. Other relevant service will of course be considered.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with the full range of clinical severity across a range of care settings e.g. outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity 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, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
- Experience of assessing and treating clients across the full range of care settings, including residential care.
- Experience of representing psychology within the context of multi-disciplinary care
- Experience of highly expert teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
- Experience of Patients with a wide range of health issues and psychological presentations.
- Experience of working with patients exhibiting challenging behaviours
- Experience of providing care for NHS staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
- Delivering Schwartz, rounds, Team time and TRiM care
- Working with a system level with a variety of teams in acute and community
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of service development and key national guidance in this clinical area.
- Ability to integrate highly complex clinical information into a coherent formulation, and to apply this in treatment, management and rehabilitation
- The ability to plan and organise in a manner consistent with a Service remit and the requirement of highly autonomous working
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- 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.
- Demonstrable ability to exercise full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS.
- Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
- Experience of offering clinical supervision for complex patients
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Experience of contributing to formal audit process.
- Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical 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 contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office functions and a willingness to further develop these as required
Desirable criteria
- A sense of humour
- Willingness to work flexibly
- An awareness of own strengths and limitations
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elspeth Desert
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01768 245 954
- Additional information
Email contact is preferred.
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