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Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
We are the leading provider of mental health, learning disabilities and substance misuse services in Derby city and Derbyshire county. We also provide a wide range of children’s services. We employ over 2,400 staff based in over 60 locations across the whole of Derbyshire. Across the county and the city, we serve a combined population of approximately one million people.
Our story
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established on 1 February 2011 when Monitor, the independent regulator of health services in England, authorised Derbyshire Mental Health Services NHS Trust to become a Foundation Trust.
In April 2011 we became the provider of children’s universal and specialist services for Derby city following a successful tender process.
As part of the Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme, community paediatric services and substance misuse services were also transferred into the organisation from NHS Derby City.
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Band 8a Clinical Psychologist
Accepting applications until: 15-Jan-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 15-Jan-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Chesterfield
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Postcode
- S40 1JF
- Major / Minor Region
- Derbyshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa, pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Clinical Psychology
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Would you like to be at the forefront of innovative service development? Are you good at building relationships, working with teams and promoting new ways of doing things?
We are looking for forward thinking Clinical Psychologists (Band 8a) who are passionate and enthusiastic about transforming mental health services.
Across Derbyshire, our newly developed Living Well service aims to offer short-term multi-agency / multi-disciplinary services to people who have complex mental health needs, and who would have previously fallen between primary and secondary care mental health services. Living Well teams have formed across the county of Derbyshire and Derby City, and NHS, Social Care and Voluntary Sector organisations work together within each team to provide person centred care and a joined up way of providing services. Joining a county wide small team of psychologists, the roles will support service developments, offer training, consultation, support and supervision to the Living Well teams to promote psychologically informed interventions and trauma informed care.
You will be committed to co-production and multidisciplinary team working and have excellent relationship skills, whilst capable to manage varied work demands. We are recruiting up to 1.6 wte and welcome applications from people who would like to work full time or part time (with a minimum of three days for part time workers).
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You will be part of a small psychology team which will develop, oversee and deliver short term psychologically informed offers in the Living Well teams. You will provide direct clinical work, predominantly group work, jointly with colleagues. You will promote psychological ideas by offering advice and consultation in addition to supervision and training to colleagues, multi-disciplinary practitioners, the wider organisation and contribute to service development. You will promote trauma informed care, and support the development and supervision of trauma stabilisation work in Living Well, as well as other psychologically informed interventions. You will offer research skills and service evaluation/development. There will be a small amount of provision of individual therapy within a CMHT context as part of the overall role, but group work, consultation, supervision and service development will form more of the majority of the role.
We support and develop our staff to work with complexity, for example, by access to training resources to support your work. We offer specialist clinical supervision 1:1 or in facilitated groups e.g. CFT, complex trauma and dissociation supervision.
Working in our friendly Directorate of Psychology and Psychological Therapies, you will be well supported in CPD opportunities. Our team report feeling valued and supported working in a service focused on staff well-being and development, and service transformation.
Working for our organisation
Join our team of nearly 300 staff in our Directorate of Psychology & Psychological Therapies. We are committed to our compassionate framework within which your development and well-being will be nurtured. You will be joining us at a time of exciting, innovative and values-based transformation as we develop and progress our services to deliver place based and needs led integrated care across our localities, with trauma informed and trauma sensitive practice at the forefront of these developments.
If you would like to join our friendly Psychological Therapies team, please get in touch to find out more about us and our Team, Directorate and Trust. We are flexible in creating mutually agreeable job plans. We warmly welcome enquires for informal discussions and around options.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Some remote working and travel will be required by the role. We are open to discussions about flexible working options, depending on service needs. Please specify in your application your preference for full time or part time role, including preferred number of hours if part time. Please state under ‘Supporting Information’.
Living Well Derbyshire :: Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk)
An introductory video to Living Well, and further information about the service can be found at: https://livingwellderbyshire.org.uk/
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above) giving eligibility for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Postgraduate doctorate in Clinical Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the BPS and giving eligibility for membership of the Health Care Professions Council HCPC
- Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC
- Eligibility for Chartered status with the BPS
- Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
- Able to demonstrate significant post qualification specialist training/experience through having provided assessment and intervention to people with complex, severe and enduring mental health / psychological problems including with personality disorder and complex trauma under clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Chartered status with the BPS
- Post qualification training in a therapy model
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with a range of mental health / psychological problems and across a variety of settings
Desirable criteria
- Expertise and interest in a specialist area relevant to adult mental health.
- Experience of facilitating psychologically informed psychoeducation groups / psychological therapy groups
- Experience of providing training in trauma / trauma informed care to others
- Experience of offering supervision (ideally including trauma-related work) to other psychologists or clinical members of multi-disciplinary teams
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Very high level of interpersonal and communication skills enabling written and oral presentation and receipt of complex and sensitive information, to facilitate acceptance and relate effectively in an emotive and hostile environment
Desirable criteria
- Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets
Personal
Essential criteria
- Possess an enthusiasm for psychology in relation to mental health problems. Interest in developing/consolidating skills in working with complex trauma and people meeting criteria for diagnosis of ‘personality disorder’
- Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen Cadman
- Job title
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500606261
- Additional information
Dr. Rachel Sabin-Farrell
Principal Clinical Psychologist – Living Well & CMHT North Derbyshire
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Recruitment Team
- Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- 1st Floor Kingsway House (Entrance D)
- Kingsway
- Derby
- DE22 3LZ
- Telephone
- 07900 135638
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