Band 8a Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - Psychosis EI, BristolinBristolinBristolPUBLISHED THU 24 OCT 2024
Qualified candidates should be experienced, enthusiastic, and committed to the role, which involves not only clinical responsibilities but also aspects of management and training, such as supervising trainees and less experienced staff. The position provides an excellent opportunity for professional development within the evolving landscape of mental health services, focusing on high-quality, evidence-based psychological care for individuals experiencing psychosis.
We are looking for someone who is interested in taking up a 2 day a week Secondment/ fixed term post to work alongside the current Early Intervention Lead Psychologist Service for 23 months. You will need to be enthusiastic, committed and experienced as a Clinical/ counselling Psychologist. This is a great opportunity for someone wanting to develop into an 8A role as you will be working alongside the current lead psychologist based in the Early Intervention Service.
The role includes provision of specialist integrated clinical / counselling psychology interventions to the Early Intervention team. You will assess, formulate and offer interventions to service users on the waiting list for psychological therapy. Your role will also involve working closely with the Early Intervention team to attend team meetings, offer consultation and supervision to the team. You will work closely with therapy leads to manage capacity effectively to respond to demand placed upon the service. Your role also involves working closely with the manager of the Early Intervention Team.
o To provide highly specialist psychological assessment and therapy to patients and carers within the Bristol Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) Service.
o To provide highly specialist advice and consultation on clients' formulation and psychological management to other non-psychologist colleagues.
o To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by the various teams in the area and where appropriate outside of the area.
o To clinically supervise/line manage trainee clinical psychologists, assistant psychologists, CAPs and less experienced psychology staff, and other professionals.
o To contribute to audit, research, policy and service development within the Early Intervention team.
o To develop and deliver training in psychological therapies for multidisciplinary staff.
o To provide a lead role for the CPI within EIP team.
About us
Description of the duties
CLINICAL
To provide a high quality and largely autonomous and systematic clinical/counselling psychology service.
To undertake highly specialist assessments, including neuropsychological assessment, risk assessment and assessment for suitability for specialist psychological therapies with clients and their carers (as appropriate to the role).
To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of clients mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
To be responsible for providing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within the EIP service employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
To provide at least one specialist evidence based psychological intervention as dictated by the needs of the service.
To provide highly specialist consultation to members of the various teams in the area and beyond regarding formulation and psychological management of clients of those teams.
To use highly specialist psychological knowledge and skills to contribute to the more effective management of patients by teams.
To be involved in the development and delivery of training within the Trust.
To participate in clinical and caseload supervision arrangements provided by the Service.
To maintain accurate records and to monitor clinical workload using agreed systems.
To support the full implementation of CPA or equivalent including acting as care-coordinator as appropriate to the needs of the service.
To enter data as requested by the Trust in a timely manner.
MANAGEMENT
May include some management responsibilities for Band 7 clinical psychologist within the EIP team.
Delegated caseload supervision
Represent the service at specialist meetings as requested
The co-ordination of small scale projects as requested
PROFESSIONAL
To fully adhere to the Policies and Procedures of the HCP. To fully observe the BPS (1996) Code of Conduct and the DCP Guidelines for the Professional Practice of Clinical Psychology (1995).
To be aware of, adhere to, and where appropriate, contribute to the formulation and review of Trust, Area, Clinical Psychology policies and procedures. Copies of Trust Policies can be accessed via the staff intranet or from your manager.
To participate in local psychological therapy and psychology meetings and trust wide meetings as appropriate.
To maintain and develop high standards of clinical psychology practice by engaging in continuing professional development and co-operative working/networking with other clinical psychologists.
To participate in an annual performance appraisal.
To participate in clinical supervision.
SERVICE GOVERNANCE
To participate in service governance processes in the profession and in the LDU to maintain a safe, effective service which responds to Service User feedback.
To support and participate in multidisciplinary clinical audit.
To liaise with other disciplines and agencies to ensure that best practice is shared.
To promote the use of effective interventions in the service.
TRAINING AND STAFF DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
To provide supervision for clinical psychology trainees from regional training courses and elsewhere as appropriate.
To provide training, supervision and consultation in psychological approaches to other staff in multidisciplinary teams. This is to include joint assessment, formulation of psychological problems and planning of interventions to be implemented by other team members with service users.
To contribute to the development of a psychologically based framework of understanding and care across service settings through providing teaching, training, consultation and supervision.
To provide training and supervision to assistant psychologists.
To participate in peer supervision arrangements for psychologists in the area.
To collaborate with colleagues to develop and offer training courses, workshops and supervision groups to develop psychological skills for staff in the area.
To contribute to the teaching of students and trainees in psychology, medicine, nursing and other health care disciplines.
To agree a plan of personal development with the line manager and professional lead for the service.
Provide inclusive, compassionate and effective leadership for your team by setting clear vision and direction.
Develop a culture and environment in which members of staff are encouraged and supported to deliver high- quality services and are supported to innovate and improve services where appropriate.
Encourage your team to feel able to raise concerns openly and safely.
Promote equality of opportunity in service delivery and employment, ensuring that no person receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, religion, creed, colour nationality ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
Support prompt recruitment by identifying vacancies to the AWP Recruitment Team as soon as they arise, and participate in the selection and effective induction and onboarding of new joiners to the team.
Ensure that all team members have a very positive introduction to the team and a well-supported first year.
Take responsibility for encouraging people to stay with AWP, ensuring that you are aware whenever a member of your team is considering leaving, seeking to understand their reasons and encouraging them to stay.
Ensure that key messages are cascaded in your team and that your team are encouraged to put forward suggestions.
Show appreciation to your team when they do good work and support them when they are struggling.
Consider the individual needs of team members for a healthy work-life balance and think about how their needs can be supported by providing flexible ways of working.
Support all team members to keep their mandatory and statutory training up-to-date and identify the learning and development needs of all team members of the team ensuring that everyone has an up-to-date personal development plan (PDP).
PERFORMANCE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Ensure that you and your team understand all of the agreed key performance indicators for your service, particularly relating to outcomes and essential standards to be met.
SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING
Actively seek opportunities for improvement for the services which you and your team provide by identifying research evidence and best practice elsewhere, interpreting/translating and facilitating adaptation for AWP.
Analyse and interpret data to inform the strategic direction of the services which you and your team provide
Ensure multidisciplinary involvement and the use of quality improvement (QI) techniques in service improvement, by negotiating shared solutions, facilitating the resolution of complex or contentious issues and managing any conflict into constructive outcomes.
Ensure effective risk identification, analysis, mitigation and management within your services, encouraging all members of your team to be aware of and to manage risks.
GOVERNANCE AND POLICY
Ensure that you understand all of the key governance requirements, policies and standards for your services and that these are communicated to your team; make sure your team understand the importance of good governance.
Support the development of policies relevant to your services, including your team in this work.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
To engage in research relevant to service priorities as appropriate.
To participate in audit and service evaluation activities examining the effectiveness of current service delivery and informing the development of services relevant to client needs.
To provide advice, support and consultation to colleagues from other disciplines undertaking research in the area.
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
With the following staff working and providing services in the area:
Clinical psychologists and other therapists in the EIP team.
Psychological Therapy staff working in the CPI across Bristol.
EIP team leader and multidisciplinary staff in the EIP team.
Multidisciplinary teams across Bristol.
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