Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• ANALYTICAL SKILLS

  Positive problem solving approach

• ANALYTICAL SKILLS

  Ability to critically evaluate and review developments made by others to determine if and how they could be applied within own area of work

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings, including at least six months clinical experience working in adult mental health

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life span’s presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Knowledge of whole life span development and the impact on emotional, psychological and mental wellbeing

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Knowledge of the theory and practice of at least one evidence based psychological therapy (i.e. CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, CAT, systemic family psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy) relevant to the treatment of adults with complex problems and their families

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Experience of multi-disciplinary team working and inter-agency collaboration

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Ability to provide consultation to other professional and non-professional groups

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Ability to take the appropriate action to address any issues or risks

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Awareness of Child and Adult Safeguarding Procedures

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Awareness of current NHS initiatives and Developments

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Knowledge of legislation and the national agenda in relation to Adult Mental Health

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Knowledge and awareness of specific clinical practices and issues relating to clients with mental health problems

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team

• PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

  Experience of working in a community mental health setting

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to communicate orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to work and communicate therapeutically with clients and their families consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to work and communicate as a responsible participating member of a multi- disciplinary team and the ability to respect and value other members’ contributions and to encourage participation of all involved

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to keep accurate and complete records of activities and communications consistent with legislation, policies and procedures

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to alert line manager / team when direction, policies and strategies are adversely affecting users of services or the public

• COMMUNICATION SKILLS

  Ability to time manage effectively and to work under pressure and to prioritise a clinical workload

• Physical Skills/Effort

  Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)

• QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

  Doctoral/Masters level training in clinical/counselling psychology, including specific models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS and current registration with HCPC Or A registered qualification (e.g. in nursing, social work, occupational therapy) and further postgraduate qualification training in evidence based psychological therapies, including CBT, and significant experience working as a psychological therapy practitioner, with BABCP registration and eligibility for BABCP accreditation

• QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

  Professional qualification degree level, which should include knowledge and application of research methodology