Clinical/Counselling Psychologist - Sandown, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Description

The Isle of Wight Community Learning Disability Team is pleased to invite applications from Clinical Psychologists for this fixed-term post.

This Band 7 post offers an exciting opportunity to join a friendly and dynamic multi-disciplinary team working with adults with learning disabilities across the Isle of Wight.

The Psychology team provides a comprehensive range of assessment and intervention services to adults with learning disabilities.

There is also the opportunity to contribute to assessments undertaken in the Autism Clinic, which provides assessment and diagnosis to adults without learning disabilities.

This post is ideally suited to newly or recently qualified clinical psychologists, who will be able to benefit from, and contribute to, a working environment rich in experience, enthusiasm, and opportunity for professional development.

To undertake specialist assessment, adapted psychological therapy and behaviour support for people referred to the Community Learning Disability Team.

Provide supervision to other team members in matters of psychological approaches to care provision.

Support Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists.

To liaise with Multidisciplinary team members within the Community Learning Disability Team.

To liaise with social services, community mental health services, acute, and other NHS professionals and external agencies concerning a service users care.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are C ompassion, A ccountable, R espect and E xcellence.

Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight healthcare services are evolving and transforming to meet the continuing care needs of our population.

Now is a very exciting time to join Isle of Wight NHS Trust as we enter this period of change.

This year Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have strengthened our partnership and formed a group giving us an opportunity to work together to be innovative in improving patient care and outcomes as well as improving the experience and opportunities for our people across the two organisations.

We have also been working with other local NHS Trusts across our region to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.

Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust - Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - to be formed by 1 July 2024.

People employed in our community, mental health and learning disability services by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) on 1 May 2024.

The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Post-Graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychological, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology

Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community primary care, inpatients and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.

Experience of exercising full autonomous clinical responsibility for patient's psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary treatment/care plan
Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision

Experience of assessing and treating patients across the full range of care settings
Experience of representing psychology with the context of multi-disciplinary care
Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical and clinically sensitive or highly contentious information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.

Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively with people who have varying degrees of intellectual disability (MildModerate-Profound-Multiple) utilising a range of communication methods and approaches.