Low Secure, PICU and Specialist Rehabilitation Division
Career Level C / Expert (NHS Band 7/ 8a)
12 month fixed term contract
Location: Northampton
Hours: Full time although part time / flexible will be considered
Suitable for an experienced registered psychologist or someone completing their HCPC registration by July 2022
You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare
You will join a wide team of over 50 registered Psychologists based across our 3 sites (Northampton, Birmingham and Essex) and our Community Partnerships division. As such, there will be lots of support for someone early in their career along with great opportunities for more experienced psychologists to progress in their future too.
Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.
The Northampton site has facilities such as a café, garden centre, charity shop, woodwork & ceramics workshop providing vocational opportunities for patients. In addition, there are gyms and swimming pools for patients and staff to use all based in over 150 acres of beautiful grounds (please see link below for more details).
https://www.stah.org/who-we-are/locations/northampton/
St Andrew’s healthcare works in partnership with the NHS providing commissioned services to meet the needs of a diverse population. We are the UK’s largest mental health charity and a unique provider of specialist care in mental health and learning disability. We aspire to deliver truly world class, holistic services within our outstanding, modern facilities. Our independence means we can always put patients’ interests at the heart of decision making whilst maintaining a collaborative relationship with our NHS colleagues.
The Person
We would like to recruit a Clinical Psychologist who has:
- HCPC registration as a Practitioner Psychologist (or nearing the achievement of this by Spring 2022)
- Experience and/ or a keenness to working with men and women who experience a mental health crisis and require short term formulation-led support while engaging in their recovery on our psychiatric intensive care units (PICU)
- Experience and/ or an interest in working with men in a low secure setting who require longer-term support that facilitates therapeutic change along their individual recovery journeys
- A desire to develop skills in line management and the supervision of junior colleagues, specifically assistant psychologists working within the team
- Knowledge of and an aspiration to provide staff support via reflective practice; teaching and training others
- A drive to apply your skills and expertise by providing clinical and risk assessments for our patients, collaboratively develop formulations, plan and sequence psychological interventions and consult with the wider clinical team to enable patients to progress to the least restrictive environments
- An ambition to maintain your skills in service evaluation; audit and research by regularly attending our Research Club and working towards making contributions to the evidence-base depending on your individual interests.
The Service
As a result of changes within our services a post has arisen for a Clinical Psychologist to work within the low secure and PICU teams. The successful applicant will be joining a well-established psychology department which offers professional support and a wide range of expertise. Psychology is highly valued within the service and is embedded within a multi-disciplinary approach. We are seeking keen team players who adopt a person-centred approach to care, and a recovery focus towards rehabilitation practices aiming to optimise each individual’s progress through treatment.
You will be able to access excellent opportunities for continuing professional development including engagement with our academic centre and research teams; attendance at our weekly CPD events that are delivered by a range of internal and external experts in their field; and will join a large network of experienced clinicians working across our inpatient and community services.
Reward
The post attracts a competitive salary with the option of additional remuneration for work undertaken via the St Andrew’s Community Partnership division. Working within the community partnership team can help provide opportunities to develop skills and confidence working more independently, which would be beneficial for work in private practice if that was a future career development objective. Our sickness policy is on par with the NHS, there are 38 days annual leave including Bank Holidays, a car lease scheme, free parking, cycle to work scheme, ongoing CPD and much more...
If interested
If you have any questions regarding the post, please contact Dr Victoria Taylor (Lead Consultant Psychologist) 07767763782 or James Farrelly (Senior Recruiter) on 01604 616624 or jcfarrelly@standrew.co.uk
As a CQC regulated provider of healthcare, from 1 April 2022 we will be required to ensure that all of our workforce have had first and second COVID-19 vaccinations (except for those who can demonstrate they are medically exempt). Please confirm that you will have had both vaccines by this date. Yes/No (with auto regret for ‘No’ responses).
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