Clinical Psychologist Job at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS... (Morpeth)

Job Description

Secure Care Serviceswithin Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trustprovide recovery-focused services to individuals with mental disorders and offending/serious risk histories across mental health, personality disorder and learning disability pathways in both inpatient and community settings. The development of inpatient service at Northgate Park, has seen the co-location of secure adult mental health, learning disabilities and personality disorder services, providing an integrated centre of excellence for those requiring secure inpatient admissions in conditions of medium and low security. Service users admitted to secure inpatient services often have highly complex needs and experience a range of difficulties including psychosis, personality difficulties, learning and developmental difficulties, as well as significant forensic issues which present risk to self and others.

Job Responsibility

Providing expertise in undertaking specialist psychological assessment, including risk assessments, collaborative formulation and interventions with service users
Individual and group based therapeutic work
Supporting multidisciplinary staff working with service users through formulation, training and reflective practice sessions
Contributing to a service wide understanding and management of complex risk
Embedding the delivery of trauma and recovery-informed care while promoting psychological wellbeing and reducing risk
Participation in CPD, appraisal and other developmental activities

Requirements

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC
HCPC registration as a practitioner psychologist
Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, and inpatient settings
Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course with presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity, including severe and enduring mental health problems, psychosis and personality disorder. This includes maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the possibility of physical abuse
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex multivariable data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management. Skills in evidence based psychological interventions
Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinical sensitive information to clients, their family, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multimedia materials for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive behaviour

Nice to have

Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health
Experience of working within a multicultural framework

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