
Schoen Clinic York is rated 'Good in all areas' by the Care Quality Commission (latest inspection report here).
The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of the service, providing clinical expertise in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team. He/she will also be responsible for providing specialist clinical psychological input into the hospital, which will include individual assessment, formulation, intervention and consultation.
The successful candidate will pragmatically draw on the full range of clinical psychology theory to aid assessment and intervention approaches as relevant to this client group while also offering specialist psychological therapy
and skills, and will also be supported to further psychological knowledge around this complex patient population; and as such will be supported in research and publications.
For a friendly chat about the position or to arrange a tour of the hospital, please email Hospital Director, Chloe Baron on cbaron@schoen-clinic.co.uk or call 01904 404400.
Key Accountabilities
Clinical
- Lead on the provision and development of psychological input into the service, ensuring evidence-based practice with robust governance procedures
- Monitor, review and update this provision through consultation with the hospital Consultant Psychiatrist
- Attend wider service meetings with senior colleagues to discuss service development
- Provide specialist psychological assessment and formulation for all new admissions
- Where required, carry an individual caseload, under supervision, providing appropriate psychological assessment and therapy
- Manage this caseload including formulating, planning and evaluating interventions
- Contribute to delivery of the psychological groups programme including facilitation
- Assist in the development of the teams psychological formulation and therapeutic skills
- Support other members of the team, providing consultancy, supervision and training as appropriate
- Participate in a programme of continuing professional development and annual appraisal
- To consult with colleagues on the multi-disciplinary team on psychological aspects of clients’ assessments and therapy plans
- To attend MDT meetings and CPA reviews
- To offer leadership to the teams on the development and maintenance of a therapeutic environment
- To attend and engage with team supervision and development activities
- To participate in other meetings or committees as necessary
- Involves and engages users of the service and others in discussions about service direction, improvements and the values on which they are based
- Actively creates opportunities to enable everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice
- Works with others to make sure there is a clear direction for values, strategies and policies and leads the way when interests are in conflict
- Evaluates the quality of own and others’ work in own area and raises quality issues and related risks with the appropriate people
Support
- Assist in the development of the teams psychological formulation and therapeutic skills
- Support other members of the team, providing consultancy, supervision and training as appropriate
- To contribute to the training and supervision of Assistant Psychologists, and other members of the MDT
- To provide teaching and training sessions on psychological assessment, formulation and intervention and other key psychological theories and models to colleague groups and teams
Administrative
- To record client contacts and assessments according to relevant policies, using computerised system
- To keep other notes and records as may be necessary to clinical psychology professional practice, using paper and/or computer systems
- To provide written reports on psychological assessments, formulation, therapeutic progress and outcomes for colleagues and referrers
For a friendly chat about the position or to arrange a tour of the hospital, please email Hospital Director, Chloe Baron on cbaron@schoen-clinic.co.uk or call 01904 404400.
About Schoen Clinic
Our culture
Our culture of world-class medical excellence is based on our five key values:
Accountable: Taking ownership of the things I say and do
Caring: Treating others as I would like to be treated
Collaborative: Working together to make a winning team
Courageous: Being proud to be different and challenge the norm
Determined: Seeing things through to meet and exceed expectations
OUR AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
- HOSPITAL GROUP OF YEAR - WINNER - 2020
- Nursing Practice (Schoen Clinic Newbridge)
- Healthcare Outcomes (Schoen Clinic Newbridge)
- Management Excellence (Schoen Clinic UK)
- Hospital (Schoen Clinic London)
- HOSPITAL - WINNER (Schoen Clinic Newbridge) - 2021
- Hospital Group (Schoen Clinic London)
- Nursing Practice (Schoen Clinic London)
For a friendly chat about the position or to arrange a tour of the hospital, please email Hospital Director, Chloe Baron on cbaron@schoen-clinic.co.uk or call 01904 404400.
Details
Schoen Clinic York
Job TypePermanent
CategoryMedical
SalaryUp to £60,000
Closing Date21 January 2024
Benefits*Up to £60,000 with an annual salary review
25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
Professional development opportunities
Contributory pension scheme
Enhanced Private Medical Insurance with BUPA including access to a private GP service, free screening & the inclusion of pre-existing conditions
Eye care scheme with Specsavers
Online benefits portal with high street and online shopping discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Group Life Assurance
Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
Paid emergency leave
Occupational Sick Pay above SSP
Employee Assistance programme with wellbeing support
Skills
Key Skills & Experience
Educational (Essential)
- Maintain eligibility for the register of Chartered Psychologists
- Doctorate in Clinical/Counselling Psychology
- HCPC registration as a Clinical Psychologist
Educational (Desirable)
- Post qualification experience in a setting relevant to the post
- Completion of formal training to meet eligibility as clinical supervisor of Doctoral Trainee Clinical Psychologists
Specific Training, Skills & Knowledge (Essential)
- Practical knowledge of using full range of psychological theory models to inform clinical work and consultation
- Understanding of working with a wide variety of client groups, presenting with problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including developmental and attachment trauma
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems including high levels of risk to self
- Excellent skills in psychological assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation
- Exceptional communication skills in verbal, non-verbal and written modes including report writing
- Ability to empathise and develop good therapeutic alliance with service-users with complex difficulties related to relational trauma
- Demonstrates the ability to develop positive working alliances with multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to Formulate Complex processes
- Capacity to conduct psychometric assessment where needed
Specific Training, Skills & Knowledge (Desirable)
- Additional training in specific psychological model (e.g. EMDR, CAT, CFT, IPT, CBT)
Experience (Essential)
- Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients including those with diagnoses of PTSD and Personality Disorder
- Experience working with teams
Experience (Desirable)
- Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
- Experience of running team formulation meetings
- Experience of service development
- Experience of facilitating groups (specifically CFT/DBT)
Other
- Self-motivated and self-starter with the ability to prioritise and schedule work independently
- Highly organised, detail-oriented and analytical
- Adaptable in terms of working times and responsibilities e.g., out of hours work may be required with due notice.
- Maintains a professional conduct at all times, remaining calm and in control.
- Be able to adapt to the ever changing environment and reacting quickly to meet challenges.
- Working with people in Crisis
- Working in an inpatient psychiatric ward