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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Contact
- Address
- Swandean
- Arundel Road
- Worthing
- West Sussex
- BN13 3EP
- Contact Number
- 01903 843000
Multi Professional ApprovedResponsibleClinician ConsultantPsychologist
Accepting applications until: 28-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 28-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Cavendish House
- Address
- Breeds Place
- Town
- Hastings
- Postcode
- TN34 3AA
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8D)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Are you an ambitious and experienced Consultant Psychologist ready to take the next step in your career in an environment where you will be supported to grow & develop? A unique & exciting opportunity has arisen as part of our transformation of urgent and acute care. This new post is for a Multi Professional Approved Clinician within our mental health services in East Sussex.
Opportunity open to either
Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who have achieved Approved Clinician status. Applicants will be already approved by the appropriate authority to act as an Approved Clinician in England for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended 2007). You will be appointed at an 8D.
Or Consultant Practitioner Psychologists who can commit to training to become an Approved Clinician. MPACs in dedicated training roles will receive full support to undertake the 18 month training & completion of the portfolio in readiness for submission to the local approvals panel. The MPAC in training roles are banded at 8b (practitioners already working at 8C will maintain their 8C grade & terms and conditions for the duration of their training). On completion of the programme & following successful approval the MPAC in training will progress to a band 8D Multi-Professional Approved and Responsible Clinician post.
The post holder will work into the inpatient & urgent care pathway in Hastings.
For more information on this role please see attached JD for Qualified & Trainee.
Advert
Qualified Clinician:
Lead in a specialist field of clinical and professional practice: namely as a Consultant Psychologist / Responsible Clinician. To be responsible, in collaboration with operational management and multi-professional colleagues, for the development and implementation of this specialist field of practice/training/research, within locality and across the Trust. To carry out responsibilities as job planned within the service as a consultant practitioner psychologist and approved / responsible clinician.
Please refer to Qualified JD for more details
Trainee Clinician:
This is a 12 - 18 month Approved Clinician (AC) training post that forms part of the very senior clinical workforce. The post holder is expected to be at consultant level capability as defined by the HEE document. The postholder will develop the eight core competencies of an Approved Clinician (AC), accessing support from a variety of professional backgrounds, divisions and organisations. This broadening of the trainee’s knowledge and clinical experience is vital towards submitting a successful portfolio of evidence to the regional MHA Approvals Panel. AC status must be achieved within 18 months of commencing in role.
Please refer to Trainee JD for more details
Working for our organisation
Working here offers continued training and development, flexible working opportunities, free parking and the benefit of living and working in East Sussex. East Sussex is a beautiful county with great schools, good transport links, vibrant communities, rural areas, and tourist attractions, including the Coast and the South Downs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualified:
- Hold a specialist clinical caseload and maintain a very high / statutory degree of clinical responsibility for patients on caseload, while providing consultant level clinical services within a designated care group to a group of patients who may or may not be managed under the Mental Health Act 1983.
- Provide a very senior / overall clinical leadership function to MDT colleagues and others within a designated care group, for designated patients, as a Consultant Psychologist and in a statutory clinical lead role, as Responsible Clinician.
- Provide expert guidance, advice, consultation and supervision to own professional group and to MDT colleagues, and patient.
- Contribute and lead on organisational, policy and clinical service developments and utilise advanced skills in research, quality improvement, outcome measurement, audit, teaching, training and lecturing to support evidence-based practice and high standards of service delivery within the designated care group, completing research and quality improvement projects as required, and supporting others to do so.
Trainee:
§ Being accountable for their own professional practice in the delivery of highly specialist care to patients with severe and enduring mental health conditions or learning disabilities; this may include psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity and involve significantly challenging behaviours (with risk of physical aggression).
§ Planning individual patient care and where appropriate co-ordinating care within the MDT and external agencies.
§ Undertaking the role of Trainee Approved Clinician for an identified client group incorporating the eight clinical competencies below, as per Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) guidance:
1. A comprehensive understanding of the roles, legal responsibilities and key functions of the AC and RC.
2. An applied knowledge of the legal and policy framework. This includes mental health and all other relevant legislation, codes of practice, policy and guidance and relevant NICE guidance.
Please refer to JD for full details
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professionally qualified mental health professionals in one of the following groups: 1. A Practitioner Psychologist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 2. A Nurse, registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as practicing within the mental health or learning disability fields 3. An Occupational Therapist, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 4. A Social Worker, registered with the Health and Care Professions Council 5. A master’s degree or doctoral degree qualification, within the candidate’s professional field or related therapy discipline or equivalent level qualification
- A postgraduate certificate or diploma, within the candidate’s professional field or related therapy discipline (or equivalent, such as the Higher Specialist Award in Social Work).
- Be prepared to undertake a specific qualification in service areas where the Application form role is required. For this particular post, it is not essential to be an independent prescriber, or to become an independent prescriber prior to achieving AC approval.
- Commitment to undertake AC training including attendance at AC Portfolio Workshops and Post Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice in Law: Mental Health (Approved Clinician Preparatory Programme)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of liaison and joint working with statutory, voluntary and private sector agencies. Working with patients as covered by the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, MHA Code of Practice Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified and non-qualified members of the profession. Managing multi-agency service delivery models. Autonomous clinical decision making Experience of managing change e.g. implementing new models of care, new pathways, service development activities Undertaking research activity Goal setting and delivery of targets within deadlines. Working well under pressure, within tight deadlines, and producing good quality results Undertaking mental health assessments incorporating biological, psychological, cultural and social perspectives Leading formulation, review and treatment within the context of the multidisciplinary team Assessing capacity to consent to treatment
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Brummer
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
PA : [email protected]
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