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We are delighted to be offering a 0.5wte Band 7 Clinical Psychology development post within our Adult Inpatients Service based at Hopewood Park Hospital, Sunderland and are looking for enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists to provide specialist psychological input on our wards. We welcome applications from both current Band 7s and current final year trainees. Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training is desirable but not essential. Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services provide multi-disciplinary care using a biopsychosocial model for service users over the age of 18. The acute service provides care for service users with acute mental health needs who require assessment and treatment in hospital. Service users admitted to hospital are often highly complex and have a range of experiences and difficulties including neurodiversity, psychosis, personality difficulties and learning difficulties, risk to self and others, forensic issues and behaviours that challenge.
Job Responsibility
Providing expertise in applying specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive assessments, collaborative formulation and intervention with service users and working with MDT teams to embed formulation and trauma informed care
This includes individual and group based work and involvement of families and carers
It will involve supporting multidisciplinary staff working with service users through supervision, team formulation, contributing to understanding complex risk, developing behaviour support plans and providing reflective practice and training to the team
The development of the enhanced MDT (EMDT) in inpatient services may mean involvement in the wider remit of ward-based tasks
The role may also involve research, service evaluation and audit
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 registered practitioner psychologist
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
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
Nice to have
Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology
Skills in providing clinical supervision
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