Consultant Applied Psychologist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Applied Psychologist to join North Yorkshire, York & Selby Adult Mental Health Services as Personality and Relational co Lead. Your key role will be to support colleagues in developing their skills, knowledge and attitudes, supporting them to enhance the recovery of people presenting with complex emotion needs and relational challenges and aiming to ensure that service delivery in general is personality and relationally informed. You will be required to be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist and have post doctoral training in a specialism relevant to complex emotional needs, and extensive clinical experience working with complex emotional needs. The nature of the role means that driving will be essential. The post will involve travel across the North Yorkshire, York & Selby footprint. The location of the base is negotiable with the successful candidate., You will deliver a range of supervisory, consultative, and service development and improvement interventions, working both with internal colleagues in teams across Adult Mental Health as well as wider multi-agency networking . Candidates should be significantly experienced clinicians with excellent interdisciplinary working skills and interested in developing and delivering an innovative service. A proven track record of consultancy, clinical leadership and supervisory experience in the field of Adult Mental Health is essential. A working knowledge and understanding of Structured Clinical Management, is desirable. This is a challenging yet rewarding post that requires the post holder to hold and contain highly distressing material. You will join colleagues doing the same job in the other localities, all managed and professionally led from within their locality. One of the network is also the Trust Lead for Personality & Relational Services, though individual and group based
opportunities for support are also provided.

We are committed to co-creating safe and personalised care that improves the lives of people by involving them as equal partners. The most important way we will get there is by living our values, all of the time. Psychological Professions staff will be expected to display the Trust values at all times, working as part of the collective leadership team with shared accountability and responsibility for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of patient care is delivered in a patient centred manner. They will also contribute to ensuring the culture of our services is built upon the Trust Values and the trust's strategy - Our Journey To change (OJTC).