Consultant Clinical And/or Forensic Psychologist - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity is now available for a consultant HCPC registered Psychological Practitioner to influence the expansion of the complex rehabilitation programme in West Yorkshire by working into a soon to "go live" pathway for women with presentations consistent with a diagnosis of personality disorder.

The service is hosted within LYPFT, part of the award winning (HSJ 2021) West Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) and aims to empower people to define, build and live meaningful, independent and satisfying lives outside of locked settings, often termed "complex rehabilitation".

The pathway comprises a uniquely configured offer utilising a specialist community mental health team as well as planned care space working to repatriate and avoid admission for this group using a combined NHS and VCS workforce.

Formulation led care, coproduction and innovation are key commitments and fully embedded within the wider programme.

The role would lead on excellence in psychological provision to enhance the direct clinical offer, the indirect offer to improve system working with this group and to develop integration between evidence-based practice and innovation within a robust governance framework.

As an experienced psychologist with knowledge and expertise working with people experiencing difficulties consistent with a diagnosis of personality disorder, as well as additional mental health and physical difficulties you will lead on delivering appropriate direct and indirect clinical interventions, team formulations, reflective practice, consultancy and training to help develop a team-based and psychologically informed understanding of the service users' needs.

By providing a coherent approach reaching across different settings within the pathway (Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale, Wakefield, Bradford), you will support achieve one formulated understanding of the service user to effectively passport knowledge and planning in order to accelerate momentum towards a life worth living.

The role requires that you extend psychological knowledge to inform wider clinical and service developments informed by the regional ICS landscape.

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.
We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice.

Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives.

We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.

As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

Integral to the leadership team, you will be supported by the consultant psychologist clinical lead for the programme and the wider clinical and operational leadership group to further expand the psychological offer to improve service user outcomes informed by newly configured trust and ICS-wide governance frameworks.

You will be invested in to consolidate and expand your professional development, join a growing team of psychological practitioners across the complex rehabilitation programme and embed in a Trust with a vibrant strategy for the psychological professions committed to addressing the range of inequalities.

Recurring feedback from evaluation with service users/families, providers and other stakeholders is that people working within the programme "feel included", "clear on the plan" and appreciative of "commitment", "transparency" and "coproduction".

As a consultant psychologist to lead on psychological provision required to support repatriation from and avoid admission to out of area (OOA) locked rehabilitation settings, as well as improve integration with place-based provision and regional offer.

To contribute to the clinical and service development and delivery of integrated care incorporating psychological principles and the appropriate access to the psychological offer along the pathway.

To act as a specialist psychological resource to the services and contribute to effective outcome improvement via participating in relevant audit, policy and service development, research activities and/or programmes.

To model principles of coproduction and inclusion via supporting the development of systems that ensure effective collaboration with local and regional multiagency and sector stakeholders as we