8a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist - Psychosis Pathway

Job overview

The post-holder will lead on psychological provision within the Psychosis Pathway of the Haringey East Core Community Team,  providing extended assessments, formulations and psychological therapies (individual and group) to those presenting with psychosis and other severe mental health, physical health and social needs.  The post-holder will also provide consultation, reflective practice, psychological support and training to colleagues from the MDTs and partner agencies, and supervision and management as required to other psychological staff in the teams.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as a fully integrated member of the team, leading on highly specialist psychological provision to service users with psychosis and co-occuring complex needs, and their families, with the aims of  supporting recovery, promoting mental and physical wellbeing and optimise independence and social inclusion.

You would work directly with individuals, groups and families from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, providing tailored assessment, formulation, consultation and interventions for psychosis, bipolar and co-occuring psychological difficulties such as trauma. You would work closely with MDT colleagues and other agencies to provide psychologically informed care, through joint working, training, consultation, supervision and reflective practice. You would also have opportunities to work creatively and innovatively and undertake service development, service evaluation, quality improvement (QI) and research. You would be expected to practice as a senior independent clinician and work autonomously within professional guidelines and the policies and procedures of the service, supervising and managing other psychological staff in the team as required.

Please contact us to discuss any request in variation to the advertised hours. Please also get in touch with any other enquiries about the role: we welcome hearing from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a detailed job description and a list of the main responsibilities of the post, please see the job description and person specification attached.