Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom - NHS

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Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

We are delighted to be offering a Band 7 Clinical Psychology development post within our Adult Inpatients Service based at Hopewood Park Hospital, Sunderland and are looking for enthusiastic Clinical Psychologists to provide specialist psychological input on our wards.

We welcome applications from both current Band 7s and current final year trainees.

Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training is desirable but not essential.

There are three acute adult inpatient wards at Hopewood Park, two male and one female, Each has the provision of a 0.We are keen to hear from applicants who either wish to work full-time (37.5 hours) or part time (18,75 hours).

Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services provide multi-disciplinary care using a biopsychosocial model for service users over the age of 18.

The acute service provides care for service users with acute mental health needs who require assessment and treatment in hospital.

Service users admitted to hospital are often highly complex and have a range of experiences and difficulties including neurodiversity, psychosis, personality difficulties and learning difficulties, risk to self and others, forensic issues and behaviours that challenge.

These posts involve providing expertise in applying specialist psychological assessment, including cognitive assessments, collaborative formulation and interventions with service users and working with multi-disciplinary teams to embed formulation and trauma informed care.

It will involve supporting multidisciplinary staff working with service users through supervision, team formulation, contributing to understanding complex risk, developing behaviour support plans and providing reflective practice sessions and training to the teams.

The post holders will be fully supported to enable them to progress to Band 8a within 2 years of having been in a Band 7 role.

If the requirements are not fully achieved within 2 years the post holder will remain as a Band 7 and this outcome will be managed as part of the contract conditions agreed with the post holder at the outset

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future.

Post holders will be part of a supportive inpatient psychology team which provides psychological services to Adult Acute, Adult Rehabilitation, Older People's and Learning Disability services.

The team is part of a valued trust wide psychological service which has a range of regular meetings and support activities to ensure professional governance and to promote evidence based and innovative psychologically informed care.

Working in inpatient services offers excellent opportunities to develop skills in both direct and indirect clinical work, clinical leadership, service development, staff support and supervision and teaching and training and we welcome contact from interested candidates to further discuss these roles and visit our service.

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust will not provide sponsorship for this role.

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and Neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology as accredited by the British Psychological Society and the HCPC.

Further post-graduate training in other fields of applied psychology / therapies
Some experience of providing teaching and training
Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
Previous experience of working in an inpatient setting either pre/during or post clinical psychology training

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.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
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