Highly Specialist Psychological Therapist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

To provide and supervise Specialist Psychological assessments and therapies appropriate to a primary care psychological therapy service. To play an active role in supporting the continuing development and use of evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions within the primary care therapy service including providing specialist advice, consultation, support and training to other staff. To play an active role in supervision of therapists, service developments and governance within the service as required.
Clinical
• Assess for Specialist Psychological intervention/therapies
• Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups within HMR Talking Therapies Step 3 and 3.5.
• Manage a therapy caseload providing evidence-based psychological therapies to service users in line with targets
• Provide clinical supervision to therapists within the service in line with Trust supervision policy and Talking Therapies guidelines
• Maintain accurate clinical records in the management of service users receiving psychological interventions including electronic data entry
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management of patients
Training and Supervision
• Provide advice, consultation, and training
• Provide clinical placements for trainee professionals, ensuring that they acquire a range of relevant skills
• Lead CPPD and supervision of other team members
Management and Leadership
• Lead on service developments which informed by the knowledge base
• Participate in staff recruitment
• Take part in governance including evaluation of service delivery and identification of areas of improvement and change
Research and Development
• Initiate audit and service evaluation to help improve services
• Disseminate research and clinical audit findings as required, attending conferences to network and understand best practice
• Promote service user/carer involvement to support improvements
General Duties of all post holders
• Undertake any other reasonable duty appropriate to the post
• Be familiar and comply with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines
• Be aware of, and work towards the Trust’s strategic goals
Standards of Business Conduct
• Comply with the organisation's standing financial instructions
• Ensure behaviour and interests inside and outside work do not conflict with their Trust position, duties and/or responsibilities
• Develop good working relationships with all patients, service users, staff, contractors and where appropriate, members of the public.
• Carry out duties in a courteous, sympathetic and professional manner
• Comply with standards of professional practice / conduct. It is the post holders’ responsibilities to ensure they are both familiar with and maintain relevant professional membership
Equality and Diversity & Equal Opportunities
• Carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust’s Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
• Promote awareness of and respect for equality and diversity in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
• Treat all staff, patients, service users, NHS contractors and the general public with dignity and respect at all times
Job Description: Highly Specialist Psychotherapist
Band: 8A
Location/Base: Lock 50 Business Centre, Oldham Road, Rochdale
Responsible to: Step 3/3.5 Service Manager, Pennine Care
Main Contacts: Service Manager, Clinicians, Clinical Lead,
Job Summary
To provide and supervise Specialist Psychological assessments and therapies appropriate to a primary care Talking Therapies service. To play an active role in supporting the continuing development and use of evidence-based psychological assessments and interventions within the primary care therapy service including providing specialist advice, consultation, support and training to other staff. To play an active role in supervision of therapists, service developments and governance within the service as required.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Clinical
• Assess for/Implement a range of psychological interventions for individuals and groups within HMR Talking Therapies across Step 3/3.5
• Manage a therapy caseload providing psychological therapies to service users seen in line with targets agreed with Service Manager
• Provide clinical supervision to therapists within the service in line with Trust supervision policy and Talking Therapies guidelines
• Work collaboratively with service users, families to communicate information concerning the assessment, formulations and recommendations of treatment and management using NICE guidelines.
• Collect, evaluate and report information maintaining accurate clinical records in the management of service users receiving psychological interventions including electronic data entry
• Organise and implement Specialist Psychological advice, guidance, consultation, and training to other professionals
• Contribute to risk assessment and risk management of individual service users and provide general advice to other professionals on other aspects of risk assessment and management.
• Communicate information in a skilled and sensitive manner to service users, carers and relevant professionals concerning treatments
Training and Supervision
• Provide advice, consultation, and training team members for their provision of psychologically based interventions
• Provide clinical placements for trainee professionals, ensuring that they acquire skills for working within a primary care mental heath setting
• Receive regular clinical supervision on an individual basis
• Contribute to CPPD and supervision of other members of the team
Management and Leadership
• Provide leadership as a senior clinician in service developments which are informed by the application of a psychological knowledge base
• Participate as appropriate in staff recruitment within the service
• Take an active part in service improvement including evaluation and identification of areas of improvement and management of change
Research and Development
• Participate in new service developments applying sound practice-based knowledge and theoretical frameworks.
• Initiate and undertake project management, complex audit and service evaluation to help improve services
• Use evidence-based theories and research to support practice in individual clinical work and the practice of other team members
• Disseminate research and clinical audit findings within the organisation, attending conferences to network and understand best practice
• Promote service user/carer involvement to support service improvements
• Act as a resource for other team members providing research advice and supervision if requested
Professional Development
• Be responsible for maintaining own professional development – developing and sustaining knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness in accordance with professional guidelines
• Take active part in clinical and management supervision
• Attend relevant professional and development meetings and networks to contribute to regional and professional developments, and to gain peer support and advice
This job description is not exhaustive but is intended to give an overall picture of the role. Other duties within the general scope of the post may be required from time to time. The duties of the post and job description can be reviewed through the agreed process.
This advert closes on Friday 23 Feb 2024