Consultant Clinical Psychologist - B2 - DCMH Kinloss - Ministry of Defence - Kinloss
The job is interesting and varied and you will be expected to make a substantive contribution to supervision, audit, research, service development, teaching & training activities locally and across the MOD as a member of the Defence Clinical Psychology Service (DCPS).
In return, you will have access to the following benefits:
Civil Service Pension scheme (contributory);
Flexible working arrangements including job share;
Regular contact & support from DCPS colleagues;
Funding for CPD and access to Civil Service leadership and management training;
Reimbursement of professional subscriptions and work-related travel expenses;
Access to on-site facilities (gymnasium, Messing, clubs, societies etc).
This is a part-time (0.6 wte), permanent, broader-banded civil service post currently subject to civil service pay, terms & conditions of employment. The starting salary is fixed at the entry point for this pay scale.
JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION
To ensure the systematic provision of a high quality specialist consultant clinical/counselling psychology service across the MoD, within the defined service sector (DCMH Kinloss), and as determined by the Head of Service, Defence Clinical Psychology Service.
The post holder will be individually accountable for his or her clinical decisions across the designated service sector. Additionally the post holder will be expected to consult appropriately with professional peers and a clinical supervisor. Consultants will take full responsibility for working in particular with complex presentations.
The post holder is an autonomous independent practitioner responsible for their own work, interventions and interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies including Civil Service, Health Care Professions Council and BPS codes of practice.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional guidelines to fulfil the following major requirements of the post:
i. systematically providing and developing psychological services within the MoD, within the defined service sector, through specialist treatment, consultancy and expertise;
ii. providing clinical supervision, teaching and consultancy across the defined service sector;
iii. proposing, advising on and engaging in relevant policy development;
iv. taking a lead within the defined service sector in supporting and extending the involvement of clinical psychology in the development, testing and practice of interventions and activities based on psychological research and theory;
and as a major requirement of the post: initiating, conducting, managing and supervising effective research and audit activities across the defined service sector.
The post holder will provide consultant level input to the defined clinical service sector. This will require the use of highly specialist consultant level psychological expertise to ensure effective outcomes for all clients including those with highly complex mental health needs via the provision of:
i. highly specialist assessment and formulation;
ii. highly specialist practice of evidence-based interventions including, but not limited to, cognitive and behavioural interventions, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, brief therapies, couple, family and group therapy, psychosexual therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT); forensic behavioural interventions; risk management and advice.
iii. proposal of, advice on and engagement with policy development within the defined clinical service sector
iv. proposal of, advice on and engagement with service development within the defined clinical service sector;
v. skilled role in consultancy within the defined service sector (e.g. multidisciplinary teams) to facilitate psychological mindedness in assessment, formulation, care planning, intervention and evaluation;
vi. highly specialist supervision of multi-modal, integrative psychological interventions
teaching and consultancy within the defined service sector;
vii. initiation, conduct, management and supervision of effective research and audit activities within the defined clinical service sector.
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
• Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
• Post qualification training in clinical supervision
• Registration with the HCPC under the appropriate domain specific title: Practitioner Psychologist.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the BPS/HCPC.
• Evidence of training, experience and supervision in CBT and/or EMDR to accredited/accreditable level.
Desirable:
• Other related academic qualifications to Masters or Doctorate level.
• Advanced keyboard and IT skills.
EXPERIENCE
Required:
• A minimum of four years post-qualification experience as a clinical/counselling psychologist working within the designated specialty (Adult Mental Health).
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client 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, in-patient and residential care settings 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 clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multi-disciplinary care plan.
• Experience of post-qualification clinical research (either implementation or supervision)
• Experience of teaching, training and clinical supervision
Desirable:
• Experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical/counselling psychologists.
• Experience of multi-professional management of teams or services within the designated specialty
• Experience of representing the profession in local policy fora
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Required:
• Doctoral level knowledge of clinical/counselling psychology and two or more distinct psychological therapies.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense effort and concentration. This should include evidence of familiarity with administering and interpreting neuropsychological assessments.
• A proven ability to communicate effectively complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information, at both a written and oral level, to a diverse audience including senior executive management, professional colleagues, clients, their families, carers and other relevant internal and external agencies.
• Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies and assessments, especially in specific difficult-to-treat groups (e.g. personality disorder dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities and severely challenging behaviours etc.)
• Post-qualification experience of neuropsychological assessment
• Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral/postgraduate level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology.
• Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice in relation to the client group and mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS/HCPC.
Desirable:
• Formal training in supervision of other psychologists.
PERSONAL
Required:
• Enthusiasm for a broad range of psychological phenomena, an interest in models of service delivery, and an ability to articulate the value added by clinical psychology services within the context of multi-disciplinary mental health services.
• Ability to contain and work with organisational stress and ability to ‘hold’ the stress of others.
• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills.
• Ability to exert regular light to moderate physical effort in travelling between locations within defined service sector (such journeys can involve return journeys of 200 miles or more on an at least weekly basis).
• Ability to travel long distances (within and outside the UK) to attend meetings, deliver a clinical service and carry out other duties, as determined by Head of Service (e.g. conducting clinical assessments within BFG, Cyprus and Gibraltar and carrying out clinical or other tasks in operational areas).
• Ability, if necessary, to sit in military vehicles and aircraft, sitting for long periods in cramped, noisy and dirty conditions.
• Ability to sit in constrained positions for long periods.
• Ability to transport bulky, often heavy, test materials.
• Ability to administer tests which demand skilled, precise and accurate delivery and physical manipulation of materials in situations where timing is critical.
• Ability to sit for long periods in constrained positions during meetings or whilst involved in desk work.
OTHER
Required:
• Ability to identify, provide and promote appropriate means of support to professional colleagues exposed to highly distressing and / or traumatic situations.
• Ability to identify, and employ, as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
• Proven ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
• Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the profession of clinical psychology based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy.
• Ability to drive and possession of a full UK driving licence.
• Ability to work to Professional Guidelines, Precedent, Occupational Policies, Standard Operating Procedures, Protocols, and Codes of Conduct with work being managed, rather than supervised, and outcomes assessed at regular intervals.
Desirable:
• Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
• Record of having published in peer-reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Licences UK Driving Licence
Qualifications Doctoral level training in clinical/counselling psychology as accredited by the BPS, including models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology.
Post qualification training in clinical supervision
Evidence of training and experience in CBT and/or EMDR to accredited/accreditable level.
Memberships Current registration as Practitioner Psychologist with Health and Care Professions Council
British Psychological Society
Competencies
You will be asked to supply evidence of meeting these competencies when you apply.
- Leading and communicating
- Building capability for all
- Changing and improving
- Collaborating and partnering
- Delivering at pace
- Making effective decisions
Civil Service Competency Framework
Benefits
Pensions Civil Service pension schemes may be available for successful candidates.
Benefits Shop, Gym (reduced cost), on site free parking, Hunters Bar, café.
Allowances N/A
The post does not offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package.
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