Senior Clinical/Counselling Psychologist Ibps

Job summary Expected Shortlisting Date 10/12/2024 Planned Interview Date 19/12/2024 We are delighted to advertise a part-time band 8A (or preceptorship band 7) Clinical/Counselling Psychologist post working into the new Infected Blood Psychological Service (IBPS) at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Following the Infected Blood Inquiry reports recommendation, the service has been established to provide bespoke psychological support to those infected and affected by contaminated blood products.
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a growing specialty, dedicated to providing outreach and person-centred specialist psychological care to patients and their families.
The post-holder will sit within the multi-disciplinary team in the Leeds Haemophilia Centre, as well as maintaining close links with the psychology team.
Working with the Principal and Senior psychologists, they will have the exceptional opportunity support the implementation of this new service by working as part of the regional service and collaborating with other providers across the UK.
Main duties of the job This post would suit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience working in physical health settings/ medical team, ideally with experience of working with chronic health conditions.
It would also suit a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist with experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing trauma informed care.
The role will be to provide expert and specialist psychological assessment and treatment/intervention and contribute to service development.
The service will support people infected and affected family members, including those bereaved.
The post-holder may also provide supervision to other members of the team.
About us The post sits within the LTHT Cancer Psychology Service andHaematology team but will also have strong links with the wider Clinical &Health Psychology Department.
The Department has flourished and has over 50clinicians organised into three sectors (Medicine, Neuropsychology and Surgery& Rehabilitation).
The Trust has arange of excellent staff benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (including carleasing and cycle-to-work schemes) and on-site facilities (, nurseries).
We have several special interest groups for psychologistswanting to develop therapeutic skills in areas such as Acceptance andCommitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,EMDR and Cognitive Analytic Therapy, as well as a focus on regularsupervision.
In addition to the opportunities for training anddevelopment available within the department, there will be opportunities forthe post holder to access further funding to support their ContinuedProfessional Development.
Job description Job responsibilities JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY To provide a qualified Clinical Psychology service to adult patients, across all sites and sectors of care by: a) Providing highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy, b) Offering advice and consultation on patients psychological and neuropsychological care to non-psychologist colleagues and to other non-professional carers, c) Using research skills for audit, policy and service development and leading on research projects within the area served by the team/service d) Working autonomously in the execution of these duties and within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the Psychology Teams, Department and Trust policies and procedures.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY Clinical: 1.
To provide specialist psychological assessments of patients based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with patients, family members and others involved in the patients care.
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To formulate, develop and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a patients psychological problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the patients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
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To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients whose problems are managed by psychologically based standard care plans.
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To provide specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.
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To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of people under the medical services, across settings and agencies serving the patient group.
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To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual patients and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management, with particular reference to deliberate self-harm.
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To act as care co-ordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under enhanced CPA (or its equivalent in the acute physical health care setting) including patients, their carers referring agents and others involved in the network of care.
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To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of patients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care.
Teaching, training, and supervision 1.
To receive regular clinical professional supervision from a more senior clinical psychologist and, where appropriate, other senior professional colleagues 2.
To gain additional highly specialist experience and skills relevant to clinical psychology and the service (as agreed with the Lead Psychologist and Head of Department) up to two sessions per week.
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To develop skills in the area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and to provide supervision to other MDT staffs psychological work as appropriate.
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To provide professional and clinical supervision of doctoral trainee and graduate/ assistant psychologists.
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To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of clinical, health and/or counselling psychology, as appropriate.
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To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the patient group across a range of agencies and settings, where appropriate.
Management, recruitment, policy and service development 1.
To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the team, specialty and department operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit.
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To advise both the service and the Lead Psychologist on those aspects of the service where psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing.
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To manage the workloads of assistant graduate psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists, within the framework of the team/specialty and Department policies and procedures.
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To be involved, as appropriate, in the short listing and interviewing of assistant / graduate psychologists.
Research and service evaluation 1.
To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.
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To undertake, as a major component of the post, appropriate research and provide research advice to other staff undertaking research, and to disseminate appropriate material via presentation and publication.
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To lead on research projects within the area served by the team/service.
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To undertake project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the service to help develop service provision.
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To provide appropriate research supervision of doctoral trainees and graduate assistant psychologists.
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THE LEEDS WAY VALUES Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility.
They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work.
Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
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WEST YORKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF ACUTE TRUSTS (WYAAT) Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
By bringing together the wide range of skills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate we are working differently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highest quality care.
By working for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of that change.
WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largest integrated care systems in the country.
The Partnerships ambition is for everyone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work of WYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.
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INFECTION CONTROL The jobholder must comply at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Infection Control policies, in particular by practising Universal Infection Control Precautions.
Hand hygiene must be performed before and after contact with patients and their environment.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY / RISK MANAGEMENT All staff are responsible for working with their colleagues to maintain and improve the quality of services provided to our patients and other service users.
This includes complying at all times with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Policies, including Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed security and safer working procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust Incident Reporting system 9.
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY The jobholder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment and that services are delivered in ways that meet the individual needs of patients and their families.
No person whether they are staff, patient or visitor should receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
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TRAINING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The jobholder must take responsibility in agreement with his/her line manager for his/her own personal development by ensuring that Continuous Professional Development remains a priority.
The jobholder will undertake all mandatory training required for the role.
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COMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS The jobholder will liaise with Consultants and other medical, nursing or allied health professional staff across the organisation.
They will also liaise with the Lead Clinical Psychologist, other Clinical Psychologists working in the department, members of the psychology team and members of other disciplines and agencies responsible for a patients care.
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SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS i) PHYSICAL EFFORT: The following physical skills are needed in this clinical post: a) highly-developed skills in psychometric assessment.
This involves manipulating of complex test materials, attention to detail for precise and accurate placement of test materials and timing and recording of patients responses, acute observational and sensory skills to assess and record a patients behaviour and make comparisons with standardised test norms.
It includes the ability to co-ordinate all of these activities whilst establishing rapport with a patient, maintaining their interest and motivation to carry out the assessment.
Assessment sessions may be up to 2-3hrs in length.
In addition the post requires: b) keyboard skills In this post the psychologist is engaged in clinical work for more than 50% of the time.
Person Specification Experience Essential Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of pr Desirable Experience of working in medical multi-disciplinary teams and offering systemic interpretations to have impact on the team functioning in patient care.
Experience of teaching, training and supervision.
Experience of working within activity and waiting list targets Experience of working with adults with chronic illness and their families.
Experience of working with medical multi-disciplinary teams and supervising healthcare staff.
Qualifications Essential Post graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies Further training in a specialised area of clinical practice through formal post doctoral training (diploma or equivalent) or a combination of specialist short courses together with portfolio Completion of formal clinical supervisor training sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees.
Desirable Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
Skills & behaviours Essential Ability to exercise the full clinical responsibility for patients psychological care and treatment within the clinical specialty and to co-ordinate the psychological care provided by others.
Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable 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 material and challenging be Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.
Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Desirable Ability to provide emotional support and professional mentorship to multi-disciplinary team members.
Ability to work flexibly and respond to acute situations.
Skills in working with diversity.
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for difficult to treat groups OR advanced level knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist psychological therapies.