Highly Specialised Practitioner Psychologist – Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership

Job Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services across Lincolnshire from April 2024. Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership is delivered in partnership between Turning Point, Framework and Double Impact. The partnership combines Turning Point’s national experience as an outstanding substance use provider together with Double Impact’s specialism in lived experience and recovery and Framework’s expertise supporting service users with complex issues. Horizon is the Young Persons service within the Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, supporting those up to the age of 18 years old.

Our ‘Recovery First’ model underpins everything at Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership, with lived experience recovery fully integrated and visible throughout. Lincolnshire’s residents will benefit from Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership’s highly integrated and highly localised approach, supporting with multiple issues across all parts of Lincolnshire.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Role Responsibility

As a key member of Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership’s Senior Leadership Team you will lead the psychology provision across Lincolnshire ensuring that evidenced based interventions are embedded throughout the services.  You will offer clinical guidance, training and leadership across the partnership. You will use your skill to build on a range of innovative approaches with people who use substances and offer practical advice on trauma-informed evidence-based psychological interventions to colleagues as well as local agencies and organisations. We will also expect you to have a small caseload of service users with complex needs, providing specialist psychological assessments and therapies.

You will lead psychology input to local governance meeting structures including clinical governance meetings, mortality and morbidity review processes and multi-disciplinary complex case meetings. 

You will work collaboratively with partner agencies across Lincolnshire to improve referral pathways and joint delivery for service users experiencing both substance use and mental health issues.  You will represent Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership on strategic partnership meetings across Lincolnshire.

Further, you will contribute to the strategic direction and development of the service as a whole. This will include building strong professional links with other statutory and voluntary service providers and using your expertise to put relevant support and education structures in place. You will also explore ways to continuously improve our services and integrate wider issues - housing, employment and finances, for example – into the overall treatment process.

You will be invited to work with our national team of Clinical, Counselling and Forensic Psychologists to develop psychological and psycho-social approaches used across services, and to pursue a therapeutic specialism that fits with service needs.  You will provide clinical supervision, guidance and support to the service Practitioner Psychologist and service Psychotherapists.

The Ideal Candidate

Along with up to date registration through the Health and Social Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical, Counselling or Forensic Psychologist, you will need a doctorate in your professional specialism and proven ability to deliver psychological services. Your experience of leading and supervising clinical staff will ideally be supported by, experience of working with substance use service users. Excellent communication skills, adaptability and commitment to the Recovery Agenda, will all contribute to you becoming a vital member of our clinical leadership team.

Previous experiences of supervising others in Psychological roles would desirable as would formal training in supervision skills.

We are looking for a more experienced psychologist for the Highly Specialised Psychologist role (which is broadly equivalent of Agenda for Change 8A).  

About us

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

• Comprehensive learning and development opportunities so we can invest in your future, with a blended approach of self-lead learning, experiential learning or more formal learning opportunities
• 33 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 35 days. Plus the option to buy or sell additional holidays and spread the cost
• An exclusive discounts hub for TP colleagues, to help make your money go further – including high street shopping, pubs and restaurants, mobile phones, gym memberships, and much more. You’ll also have access to the Blue Light Card, for even more discounts and savings!
• Flexible working solutions to support your work-life balance
• Life Assurance of up to 3x annual salary and a competitive Pension Scheme to support your savings and security
• Access to our Rightsteps Therapy service – free, confidential telephone based counselling sessions, access to an online wellbeing platform, and a Financial Education hub to support your total wellbeing
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including a Digital GP, legal advice and more – all free to you and your immediate family
• Recognition awards to recognise colleagues’ inspirational work and dedication, as well as Long Service bonuses to celebrate your commitment to us
• Flexible benefit options including a Cycle to Work scheme and interest-free Season Ticket Loans
• A £300 bonus if you successfully refer a friend as a new colleague through our Refer a Friend scheme, as a thanks from us!

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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