Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist

Job summary
Want to make a difference to the lives of people with learning disabilities? Want to work in a friendly and dynamic service? Then look no further than Enfield integrated learning disabilities services!

The successful applicant will provide a clinical psychology lead to deliver Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to adults with learning disabilities and longstanding challenging behaviours by implementing an established PBS pathway in conjunction with the Consultant Clinical Psychologist. The PBS Project Team comprises of Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Assistant Psychologists, and 2 Clinical Psychologists. In addition to direct clinical work, and supervision of colleagues PBS work, the post-holder will also work consultatively with service providers to embed PBS into the service cultures, including developing and delivering training to staff teams.

Strong engagement skills and the ability to work creatively in relation to challenging behaviour and complex multi-agency networks are essential. We are seeking candidates with a commitment to evidence-based practice, service development, client and carer participation and utilising outcome measures.

The successful applicant will lead the Project to demonstrably improve the quality of life for each client through the use of PBS and other specialist psychological approaches. It is expected that the project contributes to reductions in care package costs over time through effective use of PBS

Main duties of the job
To contribute to the delivery of an effective, high quality lpsychology service within EILDS.

To lead a project that delivers Positive Behaviour Support to a group of individuals with learning disabilities and longstanding challenging behaviours.

To develop, implement and manage the EILDS PBS Project pathway in collaboration with team members and managers within the overall framework of the service's policies and procedures.

To provide PBS supervision to clinicians within the project (comprising of Assistant Psychologist/ Behaviour Analyst, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist) to ensure all aspects of multi-component Positive Behaviour Support are offered, including coaching, training, and consultation work with service providers to embed PBS into the service cultures.

It is expected that the project can contribute through effective use of PBS to reductions in care package costs over time, as identified in EILDS review processes and report to managers and commissioners. A key aspect of the role is to lead in the collation and reporting of outcome measures, direct behavioural data, statistics, and conducting audit and/or research within the PBS project.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities
To provide specialist psychological assessments and interventions of clients referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care. This is likely to be provided within, however not necessarily restricted to, the framework of Positive Behaviour Support.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological assessment and intervention/treatment and/or management of a clients challenging behaviours, mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams.

To evaluate and make decisions about intervention/treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family orgroup.

To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of users whose problems are managed by psychologically based assessments/ interventions.

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person Specification
Education
Essential

• Doctoral level training in clinical psychology, including specifically models of psychopathology and two or more distinct psychological therapies as accredited by the BPS or Certified Equivalence.
• Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council
• Experience of specialist psychological assessment and intervention/treatment of people across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical 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 receiving and providing supervision. Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
• Experience of teaching and training.
• Demonstrate further specialist training/experience in learning disabilities through having received a minimum of 50 hours clinical supervision of working as a specialist clinical psychologist over a minimum of 18 months, or an alternative agreed by the professional psychology manager
• Experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Well developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings. Experience of working within a multicultural framework. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour. Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary service setting.

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology

Experience
Essential

• Minimum 50 hours

knowledge
Essential

• Psychological assessments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).