Psychological Therapist/ Highly Specialised Psychological Therapist - Huddersfield, United Kingdom - South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Description

Job summary

Hours Per Week Part time hours will be considered.

Anexciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified PsychologicalTherapist to work in the South Kirklees Core Team: a well-established CommunityMental Health Team for adults. The post offers a diverse working roleencompassing individual, group, multi-disciplinary, supervisory andconsultation work.

The Core Team, inconjunction with the Trauma Informed Personality Disorder Pathway, aims toprovide trauma-informed care to individuals with complex needs. You will havethe opportunity to work within a friendly, fully integrated MDT who arededicated to developing better services guided by trauma-informed principles ofcare.

This has included the further development of a robust DialecticalBehaviour Therapy programme; Structured Clinical Management; and aMentalisation Based Therapy provision.It also includes various other 1:1 psychological modalities (Integrative, CBT, Compassion Focussed, ACT, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy &EMDR). We also run therapeuticgroups.

For full job description, please see attached supporting documents.

Main duties of the job

Weare looking for an enthusiastic individual who is interested in positivelyinfluencing systems through promoting psychological ways of working, and who isflexible and creative in response to service pressures and patient needs.

Therole will involve a wide range of activities, utilising various psychologicalmodels. This will include providing consultation, assessment, formulation,individual therapy, group-work and contributing to service developments andresearch.

You will be working with a range of professionals from diversebackgrounds, including psychological therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses,Advanced Practitioners, Social Workers, Psychiatrists, Support Workers andOccupational Therapists.

Thereis professional and clinical support from Principal Clinical Psychologists, aswell as opportunities for you to develop your clinical interests in CPD andsupervision.

Thereare also strong links with the University of Leeds Doctoral Training course forClinical Psychology trainees. Audit and evaluation are encouraged and supportedacross the Trust.

Forfurther details contact Dr Rebecca Shaw (Principal Clinical Psychologist) on

All employees of the Trust are stronglyencouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

The post holderwill provide specialist psychotherapy skills within a multidisciplinary team.The post holder will provide a high quality clinical service to the users ofthe service.

They will providehighly specialist assessment and intervention while working collaborativelywith non-psychology and psychotherapy professionals from other agencies andcarers.

They will be clinically responsible to a senior clinical psychologistor psychotherapist. Clinical oversight of all work will be held by the clinicallead in the service.

The job plan willbe delivered in the services the post is based.

The post holderwill work autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall frameworkof the team while observing Trust and National policies and procedures.

The post holder will utilise research skills in audit, servicedevelopment and research relevant to the post.

To offer consultation, supervision and training when required by otheragencies involved in the psychological, emotional and behavioural well-being ofpeople referred to the service.

To provide consultation, assessment and intervention in the service.

To work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary context.

To provide assessment and treatment options for people experiencing moderate, severe and complex mental health problems .

To exercise expert clinical judgement based on the highest standards of evidence based practise.

To continually seek to expand and consolidate clinical skills using training, experience, and supervision.

To provide specialist risk assessment of and intervention to people who present to the service.

To follow appropriate Adult and Child Protection guidelines in all Clinical work, including close liaison with all agencies.

To liaise and consult with the wider professional network in the care of the client.

To work jointly with other team members in delivering the most appropriate clinical service to people and their families.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to effectively evaluate progress.

Toreceive regular professional supervision from a senior Clinical Psychologist orpsychotherapist and where appropriate, other senior clinicians.

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Personal Attributes

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

Essential

Special Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Desirable

Physical Attributes

Essential