Band 8a (or 7/8a) Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Living Well

Would you like to work alongside other enthusiastic and supportive psychological therapists in adult mental health? 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 a Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, Band 7 or 8a, depending on experience, with progression by appraisal.

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.

Main duties of the job

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 promotepsychological 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 may 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.

About us

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.

This is an exciting transformational time for us in developing our services with our focus on 'Living Well' Community Mental Health Framework changes and developing trauma-informed care in our CMHTs: transformation movements with collaboration, lived experience and compassionate relationships at their core and in which Psychological Services have a pivotal role.

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/

Job responsibilities

The full job description and person specification can be found on the job application page.

The role available is up to full time with some part time and flexible working options. Some onsite work, remote working and travel will be required by the role. We are open to discussions about flexible working options depending on service need. We warmly welcome enquiries for informal discussions and around options. Please state which Banding you are applying for in Supporting Information.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Good Honours degree in Psychology (2:1 or above). Eligibility for Graduate membership of BPS
• Post-graduate doctorate in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer) as accredited by the B.P.S./HCPC
• Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist by the HCPC
• Eligible for Chartered status of BPS
• Post qualification training in supervision of other psychologists
• Post qualification specialist training/experience of assessment/intervention for people with complex mental health problems
• Post qualification training in a therapy model
• Chartered status with BPS

Experience

• Experience of working with clients across a variety of settings
• Commitment to developing specialist area of expertise relevant to the post through significant training, personal study, etc
• Expertise and interest in specialist area relevant to adult mental health

Knowledge and Skills

• 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
• Ability to process text, set up and use databases and spreadsheets

Other

• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experience£47,810 - £62,682 pro rata Dependent on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Compressed hours