Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist

Job overview

We are seeking a Band 7 Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist to join the Specialist Psychotherapy Service, Personality/Complex Trauma team a 0.8wte (30hours per week) permanent contract. We are aiming to recruit someone who has experience of providing psychotherapeutic interventions for people with complex emotional needs and experiences of complex trauma.

You will join a friendly team of Clinical Psychologists, Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists from a range of clinical backgrounds, offering a variety of medium to long-term, time-limited therapies, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing, Psychodynamic psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis.

The Personality/Complex Trauma team provides a specialist psychotherapy service for people with complex emotional needs who may have experienced trauma. We are not a diagnostically led service, but some people who use our service have a diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder/Borderline Personality Disorder; many people have difficulties with emotional regulation and their sense of self, sometimes leading to interpersonal difficulties and/or self-harm.

Main duties of the job

To provide highly specialist psychotherapy assessments to service users referred to the team.

To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment/ psychotherapy implementation and/or management of a service user’s problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the person’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across a full range of care settings.

To work on a daily basis in face to face individual and/or in group therapy settings with service users presenting with highly complex and distressing psychological problems.

To be responsible for implementing a range of specialist psychotherapeutic interventions for individuals, carers and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of different provisional hypotheses.

To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual service users and to provide advice to other professions on psychological aspects of risk assessment and risk management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and personal specification for full details.

To provide highly specialist psychological/psychotherapeutic advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals (both psychologists/psychotherapists and non-psychologists) contributing directly to service users’ formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans.

To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all users of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the service user group.

Teaching, Training and Supervision

To receive regular clinical and professional supervision in accordance with professional practice HCPC, BPS/BABCP/RCN or other accrediting organisation as required e.g. ACAT and Trust guidelines.

To provide supervision to other MDT staff’s psychological work, as appropriate.

To provide supervision for trainee psychological therapists/clinical psychologists, as appropriate.

To provide clinical supervision to less experienced qualified clinical psychologists/psychotherapists, counsellors, assistant(s), or other professionals, as appropriate.

To contribute to the pre- and post-qualification teaching of psychotherapy/clinical psychology, as appropriate.

To provide highly specialised advice, consultation and training to staff (including psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and non-psychologists) working with the service user group across a range of agencies and settings, as appropriate.