Job summaryThere has never been a more exciting time to join community mental health care. We are transforming how individuals access mental health care, there is a lot of intervention in mental health and welllbeing and we want to invest in all teirs of care. We are seeking to enhance our service offer with an experienced Psychologist (at 8a) or with a more recently qualified/ due to qualify practitioner (at Band 7). As such we would welcome applications from Trainee Psychologists in their final year of training. For Band 7 applicants we are able to offer the opportunity to progress to an 8a after one year's full-time employment and completion of a portfolio to demonstrate competence to work at that level.The East Community Mental Health Services are seeking enthusiastic Clinical, Counselling or Practitioner Psychologists to join our Teams. Working within the CMHTs based in in our coastal area supporting our locality mental health teams in embedding psychological mindedness across the MDT, and clinically leading the transformation of the teams with your expertise.The roles will be supported by the East Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist. Lincolnshire has been an early implementer for community transformation. This an exciting time to join the organisation and work across a varied area of diverse needs, being key to the development of pathways and new ways of meeting the needs of our.Main duties of the jobThe full job description and person specification are attached. The primary hopes for the role are to:Support the embedding of psychologically minded assessment and interventions within our community mental health services across the East of the County. This will be through attendance at MDTs and provision of group supervision and reflective practice.To support the team in developing psychologically informed formulation to build a trauma informed understanding of the people who access our services and determine the appropriate treatment pathways that meet their individual needs.To provide clinical leadership for the team and enable the implementation of psychologically informed pathways of care and treatment.To support a formulation based approach to risk assessment and management that enables considered decision making and responses to individual need.To deliver a specialised psychological resource for adults with severe and enduring mental health problems.To support coproduced service development within the teams and support research, audit and activities within your interests, expertise and the needs of the service.To provide clinical supervision for CBT therapists, Trainee psychologists, assistant psychologists and support the development of new psychologically informed roles.Newly qualified applicants will be considered for a developmental Band 7 to 8a role over a defined period with a supportive plan action plan, increased supervision and developmentAbout usLincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesPlease refer to job description document.We strongly recommend interested applicants to make contact so we can share more about our exciting vacancy.Service Manager Eleanor Duke eleanor.duke4@nhs.net or Psychology Lead in the East Amy Richardson amy.richardson24@nhs.net.Person SpecificationQualificationsEssentialHonours degree in PsychologyPost-graduate (doctoral or masters degree) level training in Clinical, Counselling, or Forensic psychology that confers eligibility for HCPC.Formal training in supervision of other psychologists or equivalent experience.Registered with Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist.Post-doctoral training in a specialised area of evidence-based psychological therapy.DesirableCompleted STAR supervisor trainingExperienceEssentialExperience of psychological assessment, formulation, treatment, and evaluation of adults in secondary care mental health servicesExperience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across a range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settingsExperience of working with a wide variety of client groups with a range of presenting problems from chronic common mental health difficulties to severe mental health problems such as psychosisExperience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuseExperience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients' psychological care and treatment, within the context of a multi-professional care planDesirableExperience of delivering teaching and training. Experience of supervising professionals who provide psychological interventions to adultsExperience of working in a community mental health team/other multi-professional teamExperience of working indirectly/from a consultation modelSkillsEssentialAbility to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settingsAbility 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 behaviourKnowledge of professional guidelines set out by the HCPCWell developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHSKnowledge of the theory and practice of working with severe and enduring mental health problemsHigh level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapiesAbility 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 behaviourIT skills including email, word processing and basic databasesAbility to organise own workload effectively, prioritising a complex range of tasks and responsibilities to meet agreed deadlinesHighly motivated to provide a high-quality service and to work with other team members to constantly strive for improving client experienceEnthusiasm for working within a mental health team as an integrated team memberAn ability to travel between sites as required, without the use of public transportDesirableExperience of working within a multicultural frameworkSkills in providing psychological consultation to other professional and non-professional groupsDoctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysisAbility to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settingsDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).Employer detailsEmployer nameLincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation TrustAddressEast Community Mental Health TeamsFlexible working and hybrid working can be discussedTBCLN1 1FSEmployer's websitehttps://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)