Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Clinical Psychologist/Psychological Therapist
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An Exciting Opportunity for a Principal Clinical Psychologist or Principal Psychological Therapist
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, and resilient principal clinical psychologist or principal psychological therapist to join the Personality Disorder Hub. The role will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity, and challenge alongside opportunities for growth.
The Hub Team
The Hub Team Comprises a Multidisciplinary Team Of Psychologists, Psychological Therapists, An Occupational Therapist, And Community Practitioners. There Are Also Plans To Expand The Team Further With The Introduction Of A Speech And Language Therapist. The Team Provide The Following
- Care co-ordination and treatment for a limited number of service users who present with significant personality difficulties, have co-existing conditions alongside a high risk to self.
- Evidence-based psychological therapies - predominantly Structured Clinical Management (SCM) and trauma stabilisation, whilst drawing strongly on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Mentalisation Based Therapy (MBT). These are delivered in adapted form during the most unstable phase of a service users care pathway. The focus is on providing safety, stabilisation, containment, and emotional regulation.
- Scaffolding (indirect joint working, governance, and training) to other CNTW staff who are also working with service users presenting with personality difficulties.
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The Key Elements Of The Role
- Providing specialist assessment, consultation, and adapted treatment to adult service users with severe personality difficulties, complexity, and high levels of risk to self.
- Developing and embedding complex formulations with service users and team members.
- Enhancing and embedding trauma-informed care for individuals with co-morbid personality difficulties, complex trauma, and dissociative disorders.
- Providing supervision, advice, and consultation to team members, colleagues in other services, and to other non-professional carers, on psychological aspects of assessment, formulation, care, and treatment of people with personality difficulties.
- Leading on team training, supervision, and evaluation.
- Providing scaffolding on complex systemic dynamics to other teams, across pathways, and the organisation (e.g., attendance at complex case panels) under the guidance of the Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
- Proactively leading on service evaluation, development, and appropriate service work streams.
- Clinical co-ordinator role (enhancing pathway co-ordination, adherence, and throughput through the system, including leading on waiting list management, processing of referrals, and other service clinical matters).
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About Us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return, we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.
Contact
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Rob Watts
- Job Title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Email Address: rob.watts@cntw.nhs.uk
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